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XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide Create action-packed 3D games with the Microsoft XNA Framework with this book and ebook.

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849687089

Length 322 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Microsoft XNA

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Kurt Jaegers

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introduction to XNA FREE CHAPTER

2. Cube Chaser – A Flat 3D World

3. Cube Chaser – It's A-Mazing!

4. Cube Chaser – Finding Your Way

5. Tank Battles – A War-torn Land

6. Tank Battles – The Big Guns

7. Tank Battles – Shooting Things

8. Tank Battles – Ending the War

9. Mars Runner

10. Mars Runner – Reaching the Finish Line

Scoring

Our scoring system for Mars Runner will be very simple. In each update cycle, the amount of elapsed time will be added to the player's score. Each hit on an enemy ship will add 100 points to the player's score as well.

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Authors (1)

Kurt Jaegers

Kurt Jaegers

Kurt Jaegers is an Oracle Database Administrator and Windows Network Administrator, as well as a long-time hobbyist game developer. He has built games for everything from the Commodore 64 to the Xbox 360. He is the owner of xnaresources.com, and the author of XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (C# edition) and XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide – Visual Basic Edition, both of which were published by Packt Publishing.

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