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    C# & XNA My Way
    C# & XNA My Way
    C# & XNA My Way
    Ebook102 pages28 minutes

    C# & XNA My Way

    By MM Watson

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    A collection of useful C# & XNA code including Scrolling Credits, Ticker Tape, Xbox360 Error Handling/Reporting & Global High Score Component.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMM Watson
    Release dateJun 9, 2010
    ISBN9781452376202
    C# & XNA My Way
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    MM Watson

    The author MM Watson was born, educated and lived in Africa for many years, before returning to the land of his forefathers in England. He has worked a variety of jobs, particularly, but not limited to Information Technology and Security Installations. He has at least 15 years IT experience and currently works full time as a programmer & DBA. As a hobby he creates video games for distribution on Xbox Live Indie Games.

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      C# & XNA My Way - MM Watson

      C# & XNA My Way

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      MM Watson

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      C# & XNA My Way

      Copyright © 2010 by MM Watson

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      Having been in the Information Technology field for well over a decade and having wanted to write video games since a very young age, I was absolutely thrilled when I came across Microsoft's XNA Framework, which allows you to develop video games in C# for Windows, Zune, Windows Phone 7 and what I feel is most important, the Xbox 360.

      I started my adventure into C# and XNA prior to the launch of Xbox Live Community Games (later to be renamed Xbox Live Indie Games), which allows developers to publish their games to the Xbox marketplace for sale. What an ingenious and wonderful distribution method it is by allowing indie developers to distribute on one of the major gaming platforms for a minimal cost and what I consider, generous royalties.

      At the date of writing, I have been using C# and XNA for around two years and have encountered many pitfalls and had to discover ways of writing what I first thought to be quite complex solutions, but after a bit of forethought and planning turned out to be fairly straightforward. That is where is book comes in - I am hoping that it will help you the reader to avoid the long sleepless nights that I had to put up with when trying to achieve fairly simple objectives whilst at the same time trying to get my head around C# and the XNA Framework.

      I am in no way claiming to be an expert developer or that the code I am providing is the best way to do it, it is just one way to achieve the goal of what I set out to achieve. I am self taught in C# & XNA, so my methods and techniques may not be what the professionals are used to, but if it works, it works! Furthermore, the intention of this book is not to teach you how to write XNA code, it is merely showing the solutions that I used to achieve what I wanted.

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