I really liked this book. About half of the book will be valuable to a complete beginner. The second half delves into 3D and starts you down the path of shader development, terrain generation and a third person shooter. I found the third person shooter part to be a relief since most books deal in [...]
I read some of the reviews of this book atAmazon and I was pretty disappointed by the immaturity of reviewers. But I guess that’s the way it is when anyone can post whatever they want. There was one review in particular that made the assertion that Mr. Silva was capitalizing on his winning of the Microsoft [...]
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I won’t go into detail about getting your computer and software setup to program using XNA unless someone asks in the comments because there are tons of books and websites that detail exactly what you need to do. The primary and only source for this information is Microsoft’s XNA Creators Club Website. This is your first step. [...]
Don’t believe the hype! XNA does not make game programming easy. If you think XNA is a magic bullet to game development, you will be sorely disappointed and quickly frustrated and you will never make a game. You should pursue this endeavor with your eyes wide open and realize that learning the XNA framework, C# and [...]
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