In my last post, we talked about textures in general and how to use them. This post will talk about a fun and important aspect of using textures in 2D games: Animation. Say you have a 2D game and you have Wizard character that the player controls and it can cast a spell. It would [...]
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The subject of today’s topic is one that is quite interesting to me and something you will probably spend sometime playing around with. I want to talk about Textures, specifically Texture2D class in the framework. If we’re going to talk about Textures, then we will have to talk about SpriteBatch as well since that’s the [...]
In my last post, we created a very simple “Hello World” game in XNA. It wasn’t anything fancy, but it served the purpose of introducing XNA project template and getting us familiar with what’s in the code. But let’s face it, it wasn’t a game… not even close to being one. Putting text on the [...]
In the last post I made, we saw how to create a XNA game project and run it. It didn’t do anything fancy at all, just a blue screen. Now let’s take it further and explain the code that is generated by the project template and extend it to display a nice “Hello World” text [...]
Alright, I’ll be honest from the get go… this won’t really be a “game”. It won’t be interactive, and it most certainly won’t be fun. What it will be though is a game based on the XNA Game Framework and will use the graphics card and all that good stuff. Consider it the “Hello World” [...]
Now that we’ve been through the basics of how a game works (Anatomy of a game series starts here), it’s time we start to actually create our own games. Before we do that though, we’ll need to put together a collection of tools that will help us along the way.
The Framework!
The primary software development kit [...]
This post will talk about Effects. Effects are probably one of the coolest aspects of graphics programming. To understand them, you first need to have some background history.
Graphics initially were entirely rendered by the CPU. This meant that all the calculations that were involved in transforming a 3D world to a 2D image were done [...]
Another part of the grand illusion that game developers are creating is lighting. You can use the concept of lighting to illuminate certain parts of the world in a realistic way. Of course, there is no real light shining on anything; it’s all a simulation of how the objects will look when light is bouncing [...]
So what are the different elements that go into making a 3D game? Let’s start by familiarizing you some terms used in 3D programming, so that when you’re working on your game, you’ll have an idea of what’s going on.
Game Camera
One of the first concepts you’ll see when working with 3D graphics is the game. [...]
In this post, let’s talk about the difference between 2D and 3D games!
Games can be either two dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D). Before we continue talking about the two types and how they differ, let’s talk about how they are similar.
Remember, games are nothing but elaborate illusions. Your monitor is capable of displaying only [...]