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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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687089
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

The Game1 constructor


The Game1 class has a simple constructor with no parameters. An instance of this class will be created by the shell contained in the Program.cs file within the project when the game is launched.

Note

The Program.cs file

When your XNA game starts, the Main() method in the Program.cs file is what actually gets executed. This method creates an instance of your Game1 class and calls the Run() method, which performs the initialization we will discuss shortly. It then begins executing the game loop, updating and drawing your game repeatedly until the program exits. In many games, we will not have to worry about Program.cs, but there are some instances (combining XNA and Windows Forms, for example) when it is necessary to make changes here.

By default, the constructor has created an instance of the GraphicsDeviceManager class to store in the graphics member, and has established the base directory for the Content object, which is an instance of the ContentManager class.

When we build our project, all of the items in the content project are translated into a format specific to XNA, with the .xnb file extension. These are then copied to the Content folder in the same directory as our game's executable file.

Our Speller game will not need to make any changes to the class constructor, so we will simply move on to the next method that is called when our game starts.

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