So you want to be a game programmer? Well my answer is yes, so I'm picking up the Microsoft XNA framework for C# as my first step. Some people agree with this and some don't but hey you gotta start somewhere. So I'm gonna take you, my loyal reader on this trip with me.
Right now XNA 2.0 is the current release, but 3.0 is in beta. If you want to use XNA 2.0 you need Visual C# 2005, 3.0 requires Visual C# 2008.
So lets install a couple of things to get going on this...
1. Visual C# 2005 Express
You can pick MS's free version of the visual c# here, get that installed and then get...
2. XNA Game Studio 2.0
Installing XNA will add the XNA classes/framework into Visual C#
Now something to keep in mind is that XNA requires a graphics card that can support shader model v1.1
3. While you are at it, you can visit http://creators.xna.com/ and sign up for an account there. The forums there seem like they are active and people are willing to give tips.
So, do that stuff and we will start looking at some code in our next installment.
A husband, a father of 7, a runner training for 2 marathons this year as a Hammer Nutrition sponsored athlete,a guitar player,a digital artist and a computer programmer by day. I got this.
2 comments:
Cool man. I've gotten into game programming a bit lately. I'm using Python though (of course) with an OpenGL library called Pyglet.
I started working on a dinosaur game for Curtis. I haven't worked on it for a while, but when I left off I had a group of apatosaurs that move in a circular pattern and a single t-rex that the player can control. When the t-rex moves he makes a stomping sound and when he moves over an apatosaurus he roars and the apatosaurus vanishes.
Anyhow, I downloaded Visual C# Express and XNA two years ago and never really got going with it. It's cool that the games you make can play on a variety of platforms. I'm interested to see what you come up with!
By the way, I just noticed that the "G" in your logo is similar to the "G" in the Python TurboGears web framework:
http://turbogears.org/
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