XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example : Visual Basic Edition, Beginner's Guide : Create Your Own Exciting Games with Visual Basic and Microsoft XNA 4.0

Jaegers, Kurt

ISBN 10: 1849692408 / ISBN 13: 9781849692403

Published by Packt Publishing, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example : Visual Basic Edition, Beginner's Guide : Create Your Own Exciting Games with Visual Basic and Microsoft XNA 4.0
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849692408
• ISBN 13: 9781849692403
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a step-by-step tutorial that includes complete source code for all of the games covered. It adopts an engaging style to teach all the game development concepts. Each block of code is explained, and game development concepts are diagrammed and covered in detail. Each game begins with a concept description and concludes with suggestions for expanding on the finished game. If you are an aspiring game developer who wants to take a shot at creating games for the Microsoft Windows platform with the XNA Framework, then this book is for you. Using this book, you can get started with creating games without any game development experience. A basic knowledge of Visual Basic would be needed to kickstart your game development.

About the Author

Kurt Jaegers is a database administrator by day, and a long-time hobbyist game developer, having built games for everything from the Commodore 64 to the Xbox 360. He is the owner of xnaresources.com, one of the earliest XNA-focused tutorial websites.