Game Creation with XNA

Status: This class project has finished, a thorough review is needed. This book is a collection of tutorials on game creation with Microsoft's XNA framework. It is a class project, started by students of international media informatics at HTW Berlin.

Table of Contents

• Preface

Basics

• Introduction
• Setup
• Visual Studio
• C#
• Game Loop
• Input Devices

Game Creation / Game Design

• Introduction
• Types of Games
• Story Writing and Character Development
• Project Management
• Marketing, Making money, Licensing

Mathematics and Physics

• Introduction
• Vectors and Matrices
• Collision Detection
• Ballistics
• Inverse Kinematics
• Character Animation
• Physics Engines

Programming

• Introduction
• Visual Studio
• Git and Subversion
• Reusable Components
• Frameworks

Audio and Sound

• Introduction
• XACT
• Creation
• Synthesizer
• Finding free Sounds

2D Game Development

• Introduction
• Texture
• Sprites
• Finding free Textures and Graphics
• Menu and Help
• Heads-Up-Display (HUD)

3D Game Development

• Introduction
• Primitive Objects
• 3D Modelling Software
• Finding free Models
• Importing Models
• Camera and Lighting
• Shaders and Effects
• Skybox
• Landscape Modelling
• 3D Engines

Networking and Multiplayer

• Introduction
• Split-Screen
• Network and Peer-to-peer
• Network Engines

Artificial Intelligence

• Introduction
• Artificial Intelligence in Games
• AI Engines

Kinect

• Introduction
• Use Kinect to create Models

Other

• Introduction
• Level Editors

Appendices

• Glossary
• Resources
• Authors
• Licensing