Developing Game-Themed Applications with XNA

Day 1 - Section III: The Block Breaker Game
b. The simple circle again

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Building and Running: Download and unzip this file and you should see a SourceCode folder. With XNA Game Studio Express installed on your PC, you should be able to double click on the SimpleXNA.sln file to invoke the IDE.

You can now Build and run this program. When the application first starts, you will see:
The left thumbstick on the gamepad controller controls the relative position of the circle. Notice that, in this case, you can also use the i-j-m-k keys on your keyboard to control the circle. The XNACS1LibBase maps all the controller functionality to the keyboard.
 

Implementation:  we have already seen the detail of this implementation earlier. We will use this source code to begin building our simple BlockBreaker game.
 
This document and the related materials are developed with support from Microsoft Research Computer Gaming Initiative under the Computer Gaming Curriculum in Computer Science RFP, Award Number 15871, and 16531.


Kelvin Sung
Computing and Software Systems
University of Washington, Bothell
ksung@u.washington.edu