Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0

Brecht Kets, Thomas Goussaert

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Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0

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Overview

Table of Contents

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Sample Chapters

Building a 3D game for the Windows Phone 7 platform
Drawing 2D and 3D graphics on Windows Phone.
Using the rich capabilities of the Windows Phone platform.
Creating a custom framework step by step that will act as a base for building (future) games.
An engaging and hands on beginner’s guide to Windows Phone 7 3D game development using XNA 4.0.

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 158 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : January 2013
ISBN : 1849687749
ISBN 13 : 9781849687744
Author(s) : Brecht Kets, Thomas Goussaert
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise, Games, Microsoft

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: 2D Graphics
Chapter 3: 3D Graphics
Chapter 4: Input
Chapter 5: Sound
Chapter 6: Building a Basic Framework
Chapter 7: Building a Game
Chapter 8: Releasing our game
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Developing for Windows Phone

Installing the Windows Phone SDK
Registering your Windows Phone

Getting started with your first application
The Game class

Fields
Constructor
Initialize
LoadContent
UnloadContent
Update
Draw

Summary

Chapter 2: 2D Graphics

2D coordinate system
Adding content
Drawing sprites

Adding fields
Loading textures
Drawing textures

Refactoring our code

Render context
The base class

Properties
Constructor
Methods

Building the GameSprite class

Fields
Properties
Constructor
Methods

Updating MainGame

Fields
Initialize
LoadContent
Update
Draw

Result

Adding movement to the hero

The Hero2D class

Fields
Initialize
LoadContent
Update
Draw

Updating the game class
Result

Adding animation to our hero

Sprite sheets
The GameAnimatedSprite class

Fields
Properties
Constructors
Play, pause, and stop
Update

Updating Hero2D

Fields
Initialize
Update

Result

Summary

Chapter 3: 3D Graphics

3D coordinate system
Using matrices
Drawing models

Adding fields
Initialize
Loading models
Drawing models
Result

Mixing 2D and 3D
Refactoring our code

The base class

Properties
Constructor
Methods

The camera
Updating RenderContext
The GameModel

Fields
Constructor
Methods

Updating MainGame

Fields
Initialize
LoadContent, Update, and Draw

Result

Adding movement to the hero

The Hero3D class

Fields
Initialize
LoadContent and Draw
Update

Updating the Game class
Result

Adding animation to our hero

The GameAnimatedModel class

Fields
LoadContent
Update
Controlling animations
Draw

Updating Hero3D
Result

Exercise: adding enemies
Summary

Chapter 4: Input

Using keyboard
Using the accelerometer
Using touch
Gestures

Enabling gestures
Reading gestures

Summary

Chapter 5: Sound

Before we start
Playing sound

SoundEffect
Setting volume, pitch, and pan
SoundEffectInstance

Fields
LoadContent

Playing 3D sound

Fields
LoadContent
Update
Result

Playing a song
Summary

Chapter 6: Building a Basic Framework

Scene graph

Implementation

Fields
Constructor
Methods

Using the code

Scene manager

The GameScene

Properties
Constructor
Methods

The SceneManager

Properties
Constructor
Managing the scenes
Initialize and LoadContent
Update and Draw

Creating scenes
Updating the main game

Initialize
LoadContent
Update and Draw

Result

Collision

The extension method
Updating GameObject2D
Updating Hero2D
Testing for collisions
Result

Menus

The button

Fields and events
Constructor
LoadContent
Update

The menu scene
Result

Summary

Chapter 7: Building a Game

Game concept
Menu scene

Fields

Constructor
Initialize
LoadContent

Level Scene

Prerequisites
Level Scene
Background

Fields
Initialize
Update
Scene Implementation

Path

Fields
Initialize
Update
Scene implementation
Scene Camera

Buttons Controller

Fields and properties
Initialize
RandomizeButtons method
Update
ForceButtonRelease method
Scene implementation

Hero

Fields and properties
Initialize
SetHeroAction method
Update
Scene implementation

Swing Ball

Prerequisites
Fields
Initialize
LoadContent
Update
Scene implementation

Spikes

Fields
Initialize
Scene implementation

Enemy

Fields and properties
Constructor
Initialize
EnemyAnimationComplete method
LoadContent
Update
Draw
Scene implementation

Perspective Camera

Constructor
Bringing it all together
Extra fields
AddObstacle method
ResetLevel method
Deactivate
SetObstacle method
Initialize extension
Update extension

Summary

Chapter 8: Releasing our game

Testing
Creating a trial version
Application certification requirements
Application submission process
Summary

Index

Brecht Kets

Brecht Kets is a Senior Lecturer at Howest University in Belgium, where he teaches game development in one of the leading international game development study programs, Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com). He's been actively involved in game development for several years, and has been writing about XNA since the launch in December 2006. He hosts the website www.3dgameprogramming.net and has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in the category DirectX/XNA five times in a row for his contributions in the community. Brecht has also co-authored the video series XNA 3D Game Development By Example, Packt Publishing.

Thomas Goussaert

Thomas Goussaert graduated in Digital Arts And Entertainment (DAE), from Howest University. With a wide range of skills acquired by his studies, he explored the world of programming and game development. Thomas is always curious and eager to learn new things; always feeding his passion for programming. Now he's a lecturer at Howest University, where he teaches game development in one of the leading international game development study programs, Digital Arts and Entertainment (www.digitalartsandentertainment.com). It's nice to have a passion for programming, but it's even better to share it with the world! Thomas has also co-authored the video series XNA 3D Game Development By Example, Packt Publishing

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What you will learn from this book

Installing the Windows Phone SDK and the XNA framework
Drawing 2D and 3D graphics
Mixing 2D and 3D graphics
Drawing 2D and 3D animations
Playing 2D and 3D sound
Playing songs
Handling touch input and gestures (tap, swipe, zoom, ...)
Building a scene graph and level system
Handling collision
Creating menus
How to build a 3D game!

In Detail

With the dawn of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has offered us an easy way to create 3D mobile games. In this book, we will build a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together, taking full advantage of the graphics and touch capabilities, along with the sensors of the platform.

"Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0" is the book for starting game development on the Windows Phone 7 platform. This book will go over the technical aspects of building games along with designing your own framework. Finally we’ll build an actual game together from the ground up! This book will set future mobile game developers in the right direction.

The XNA framework empowers us to build 2D and 3D games for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7. We will use those capabilities to create stunning 3D games for the Windows Phone 7 platform. We will start by covering the basics like drawing graphics, followed by building a custom framework and end with building a game together!

In this book, we will cover drawing 2D and 3D graphics, both static and animations. We will also cover the various ways of handling user input and help set the mood of our game playing both 2D and 3D sound, and accessing the user’s media library. The only thing left before building a game is covering several techniques created for making our life easier while building the game, whilst building a framework to do just that. Finally, we’ll build a 3D game together that will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform.

"Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0" is the book you need to get started with mobile game development for Windows Phone 7. Its hands on approach will set you on your way in no time. Let’s build some games!

Approach

This book is a step-by-step tutorial with a lot of screenshots that help to explain the concept better.

Who this book is for

This book will cover the building of a 3D game for Windows Phone using XNA. We won’t explain the C# programming language itself, nor object-oriented programming.

We will however explain the aspects of game development thoroughly, so don’t worry if you have never written a 3D game. We will cover all the basics, included the much dreaded math. This is the right book for anyone, regardless of age and gender, if:

You are interested in game development
You want to start building games for Windows Phone
You have some programming knowledge

In this book, we will first go over the technical topics, and end up building a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together!