Developing Game-Themed Applications with XNA Game Studio

Full day workshop at Microsoft Research
April 26, 2008

Abstract and Bio: Here is the abstract of the workshop and a brief bio of Kelvin Sung.

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1. Section-1: 9am - 10:15am Introduction and Overview.
   1. Introduction: slides on background and overview.  
   2. Simple Example: construct and analyze the source code of a bare bone XNA project.
   3. Drawing with XNA: drawing simple an image with XNA^*.
   4. Interactive control: Interactively control the location of the image^*.
   5. Running on the XBOX 360 console: run the interactive control project on the XBOX 360 console.
   
   
2. Section-2: 10:30am - 11:30am Introduction to and working with the XnaAssignmentBase library.
   1. XnaAssignmentBase Library: documentation and tutorial on the library. This library is especially designed to support faculty with no graphics and/or games background to experiment with games/graphics based assignments.
   2. Working with the Library: drawing and controlling a circle with the library.
   3. Working with media: including file texture and audio effects.
   
   
3. Section-3: 12noon - 2:00pm. Building a BlockBreaker game from scratch with the XnaAssignmentBase library.
   1. Simple circle again: drawing and controlling the simple circle.
   2. The Ball Class: Extend the above application to shoot a bouncing ball.
   3. The Block and Paddle Classes: Now, include a paddle to bounce to bounce the ball around.
   4. The SetOfBlock Class: Viola! We have simple block breaker game!
   5. BlockBreaker with textures: Include a some file textures to make the game slightly more interesting.
   6. BlockBreaker with audio effects: Include audio effects to make the game (I hope) whole lot more interesting.
   7. Our last version: Here is the Link to our last version of the blockbreak game. Be sure to try Buttons A and B. The only differences is this version supports multiple balls going at the same time, and you can pause the game (with Start-Button or W-Key). Here is the source code to this game.

• This work is based on the "XNA Based Games-Themed Programming Assignments for CS1/2" project.
• Guide to working with the XnaAssignmentBase Library: Here are a series of implementation guides that show you how to develop game-themed applications based on the XnaAssignmentBase library.
• Here is the source code to the XnaAssignmentBase library. Warning: this source code is work in progress, we apologize for the general lack of comments and/or structure. We expect/hope, in general, people will use the library, rather than work on the library.