Game Creation in XNA

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Game Creation in XNA

• CS470 Final Project
• Chris Ragland

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Project Overview

• Project Goals
• The main goal of this project was to create a
  game from scratch using Microsoft XNA.
• The game I ended up creating is a simple puzzle
  game that has the user attempting to destroy
  targets as fast as possible, to achieve a high
  score.

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Project Overview

• Project Features
• The game contains features you would expect of a
  simple arcade like game, including a title
  screen, high score tracking, quick game play, as
  well as music.
• Originally the game was going to be presented on
  an Xbox 360, but converting a PC game project to
  a 360 game project is tougher than I figured.

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A Little XNA Information

• XNA is a set of tools that include the XNA
  Framework.
• XNA Framework makes it very easy to create 2d and
  3d games.
• Games created in XNA can work on PCs, Xbox 360s,
  and Microsoft Zune devices.

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Game Workings

• Game is controlled with a state machine.

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Game Workings

• Levels are read in from XML files when the game
  is first loaded.
• Sprites are drawn to the screen and refreshed
  sixty times a second.
• XNA makes it extremely easy to render sprites, as
  well as modify their attributes.

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Sprites

• Every drawn in my game is a sprite, containing a
  texture, location, and bounding box.
• XNA provides classes for storing and manipulating
  textures as well as vectors.
• Drawing sprite is as easy as Draw(texture,rectangl
  e,Color.White)

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Schedule
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Demonstration

• Now I'm going to demonstrate a few of the levels
  of the game I made.
• Final project contains 15 levels, I'm only
  showing 4 now.

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Conclusion

• XNA provides a powerful Framework that makes it
  easy to create a game.
• I had a fun time getting to learn C at a more in
  depth level, as well as creating all of my own
  assets for the game.
• If I were to do this again, I'd start with a 360
  project from the start to ensure it would run on
  the 360 when finished.