Professional Xna Programming, 2Nd Ed

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Wrox’s Professional XNA Game Programming is the best-selling guide to Microsoft’s framework for building games for Xbox 360 and Windows. Professional game developer and MVP Benjamin Nitschke shares his experience with the XNA Framework, and teaches readers how to use the free XNA Game Studio Express 2.0 to build cutting edge 2D and 3D games. This improved and updated edition of Professional XNA Game Programming is a hands-on guide that will get readers up and running with XNA quickly, and includes 6 fully functional games including the popular Racing Game, and the new Dungeon Quest. Topics include:· XNA requirements and components· Writing helper classes· Graphics with the XNA Framework· Create great visual effects through Shaders· Using XAct for Music and Sounds· Accessing Keyboard, Mouse and Xbox Controllers with XInput· Programming a complete racing game· Building a graphics engine· Creating a game engine· Building networked games· How to get all the content managed in XNA· Fine tuning and debugging· Deployment to Xbox 360 Market Description : Readers will be expected to have previous experience with C# or a similar .NET language, although no game programming experience is required. Previous experience with DirectX will prove useful, but is not required. About Author : Benjamin Nitschke is a professional game developer at exDream entertainment, creators of "Arena Wars and Armies of Steel. Benny is well known as the creator of the first .NET 2.0 Game Rocket Commander which is the featured gaming project on Microsoft’s Coding4Fun website and includes 10 video tutorials for aspiring game programmers.Benjamin is a Microsoft DirectX Most Valuable Professional (MVP)and writes a popular blog about game development located at http://abi.exDream.com.