Time for action – creating the Robot Rampage project

1. In Visual Studio Express, create a new XNA 4.0 Windows Game project called Robot Rampage.

2. Download the 0669_06_GRAPHICSPACK.zip file from the book's website and extract the graphics resources to a temporary folder.

3. In the Robot Rampage Content project, create a new folder called Fonts.

4. Add a new SpriteFont called Pericles14 to the Fonts folder, updating the generated XML file to change the FontName to Pericles.

5. Also in the Content project, create a new folder called Textures.

6. Add the graphics resources from the temporary directory to the Textures folder.

7. In the Initialize() method of the Game1 class, add these lines to specify the size of the game window:

   this.graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 800;
   this.graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 600;
   this.graphics.ApplyChanges();

8. In the declarations area of the Game1 class, add a declaration for the sprite sheet and font objects:

   Texture2D spriteSheet;
   Texture2D titleScreen;
   SpriteFont pericles14;

9. In...