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 2403_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. Copy the SpriteSheet.png and TitleScreen.png files from the temporary folder you extracted them to in step 2 into the Textures folder, and add them to the project.

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

   Private spriteSheet As Texture2D
   Private titleScreen As Texture2D
   Private pericles14 As SpriteFont

9. In the Initialize() method...