Game Creation in XNA CS470 Final Project Chris Ragland

Project Overview  Project Goals  The main goal of this project was to create a game from scratch using Microsoft XNA.  The game I ended up creating is a simple puzzle game that has the user attempting to destroy targets as fast as possible, to achieve a high score.

Project Overview  Project Features  The game contains features you would expect of a simple arcade like game, including a title screen, high score tracking, quick game play, as well as music.  Originally the game was going to be presented on an Xbox 360, but converting a PC game project to a 360 game project is tougher than I figured.

A Little XNA Information  XNA is a set of tools that include the XNA Framework.  XNA Framework makes it very easy to create 2d and 3d games.  Games created in XNA can work on PCs, Xbox 360s, and Microsoft Zune devices.

Game Workings  Game is controlled with a state machine.

Game Workings  Levels are read in from XML files when the game is first loaded.  “Sprites” are drawn to the screen and refreshed sixty times a second.  XNA makes it extremely easy to render sprites, as well as modify their attributes.

Sprites  Every drawn in my game is a sprite, containing a texture, location, and bounding box.  XNA provides classes for storing and manipulating textures as well as vectors.  Drawing sprite is as easy as Draw(texture,rectangle,Color.White);

Schedule

Demonstration  Now I'm going to demonstrate a few of the levels of the game I made.  Final project contains 15 levels, I'm only showing 4 now.

Conclusion  XNA provides a powerful Framework that makes it easy to create a game.  I had a fun time getting to learn C# at a more in depth level, as well as creating all of my own assets for the game.  If I were to do this again, I'd start with a 360 project from the start to ensure it would run on the 360 when finished.