An Introduction to
What is XNA? “A set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided my Microsoft that facilitates computer game development and management.” - Wikipedia, “Microsoft XNA”
What does it do? Some Examples XNA Racer XNA Shooter Tetris Asteroids Assault Icebreaker
About XNA Current version is 2.0, but 3.0 will be released in December 2008 Cross Platform (PC, Xbox 360, Zune) C# Free “Boilerplate Code” Content Pipeline Programmable Graphics Pipeline
How do I get started? Download Visual Studio 2005/2008 or Visual C# Express 2005/ default.aspx (the 2005 version might be harder to find) default.aspx Download XNA Game Studio Installs over Visual Studio
Where can I learn more? Huge online presence (Pick this one!) XNA Special Interest Groups in the ACM