Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook

This book goes further than the basic manuals to help you exploit Microsoft XNA to create fantastic virtual worlds and effects in your 2D or 3D games. Includes 35 essential recipes for game developers.

Key Features

• Accelerate your XNA learning with a myriad of tips and tricks to solve your everyday problems
• Get to grips with adding special effects, virtual atmospheres and computer controlled characters with this book and e-book
• A fast-paced cookbook packed with screenshots to illustrate each advanced step by step task
• Apply the techniques learned for wiring games for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7

Book Description

What you will learn

• Dive straight in to creating Special Effects like shadows, smoke and explosions
• Get up to speed with creating both 2D and 3D terrain, including height maps and block worlds
• Create more natural character animation with shortcuts like motion capture through Kinect and Rag Doll physics
• Create 3D objects like spheres, tori and trees with code instead of modeling software
• Add atmosphere to your world with virtual water, sky and clouds
• Understand how to set the foundation for multiplayer gaming with networking

Who this book is for

If you are an XNA developer who has already successfully mastered simple 2D and 3D XNA tasks, dive into "Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook"ù for something more challenging. You should be comfortable with the basics of the XNA framework, and have experience with C#.