Games Programming II  (C# and Microsoft XNA)

1. Revising C# programming concepts

2. Introducing Game concepts

Basic game Concepts
Project : The game we'll be making will be a 2D top down shooting game.

3. 2D Games and XNA

How the coordinate system in 2D in XNA works
Learn the basic properties of sprites
Create a "Hello World!" type of XNA program
Draw a sprite onscreen in XNA
Game Loop
Finite State Machines
Sprite Positioning
Rotation, Translation, and Scale
Sprite Alpha and Tinting
Sprite Depth

4. Creating a Player Class

Player setup
Declare the Player
Initialize the Player
Drawing the Player
Updating the Player
Extending the Player
XNA Input
Simple Physics

5. Scrolling Backgrounds

Look at a scrolling background class.
Put the scrolling background into our ship game.

6. Animation

Create a class to handle sprite animation
Put animation in a scroller game.
Put animation into our ship game.

7. Adding Firepower and Creating Enemies

Shoot Fireballs
Creating Enemies
Collision Detection

8. Adding HUD Text, Splash Screens, and Special Effects

Learn how to draw text on a HUD (Heads Up Display.)
Add some simple splash screens to the game.
Learn what particle systems are and use them to create explosion effects.

9. Testing & Deploying final version of Game