Game Creation in XNA
CS470 Final Project
Chris Ragland
Project Overview
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Project Goals
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The main goal of this project was to create a game
from scratch using Microsoft XNA.
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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.
Project Overview
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Project Features
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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.
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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.
A Little XNA Information
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XNA is a set of tools that include the XNA
Framework.
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XNA Framework makes it very easy to
create 2d and 3d games.
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Games created in XNA can work on PCs,
Xbox 360s, and Microsoft Zune devices.
Game Workings
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Game is controlled with a state machine.
Game Workings
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Levels are read in from XML files when the
game is first loaded.
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“Sprites” are drawn to the screen and
refreshed sixty times a second.
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XNA makes it extremely easy to render
sprites, as well as modify their attributes.
Sprites
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Every drawn in my game is a sprite,
containing a texture, location, and bounding
box.
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XNA provides classes for storing and
manipulating textures as well as vectors.
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Drawing sprite is as easy as
Draw(texture,rectangle,Color.White);
Schedule
Demonstration
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Now I'm going to demonstrate a few of the
levels of the game I made.
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Final project contains 15 levels, I'm only
showing 4 now.
Conclusion
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XNA provides a powerful Framework that
makes it easy to create a game.
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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.
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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.