Want to challenge it? Give full play to your imagination through XNA Game Studio Express

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This article discusses:

Game Development Basics

Spacewar Starter Kit

Add features for Spacewar

Customizing game Graphics

This article uses the following techniques:

XNA Game Studio Express, Xbox 360 and C #

Directory

Game Development Basics

Spacewar Starter Kit

Understanding Game Loops

Defense!

Rendering details

Fire The Shields!

Bonus points: Change space!

Launch!

When playing video games, did you ever think, "can I make a combination like this?" Xna™game Studio Express is a new game development solution for microsoft®windows® and Xbox 360™, primarily for students, game enthusiasts, and independent game developers-people like you!

XNA Game Studio Express is based on the Visual C#®2005 Express Edition and builds on the XNA Framework (the Managed code class library designed for game development). The framework simplifies the process of writing code for two significantly different platforms (Xbox 360 and Windows XP SP2). In fact, most of the code you write can run on either system without making any changes.

Just download XNA Game Studio Express (Msdn2.microsoft.com/xna) from MSDN® and start writing games for Windows immediately. To develop a game on the Xbox 360 console, you need to obtain membership for the XNA creators Club (see msdn2.microsoft.com/bb219592.aspx for more information). Once you qualify for membership, you can access the game assets and monopolize the XNA creators Club version of the starter Kit.

Before you begin to guide you through the use of XNA Game Studio Express, you first need to download and install it. If you want to get help with installing on the Xbox 360 console, you can view the video demo on the Msdn.com/xna/videos. Look for a video called "Getting Started with the XNA creators Club".