UCSC CMPS 20 - Introduction to XNA Game Studio Express

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Course Overview Introduction to XNA Game Studio Express Game Design Experience Prof Jim Whitehead January 7 2008 Administrative If you need a permission code see me after class In most cases I will give you one the class is not full If you are a freshman non transfer game design major and have not yet taken CMPS 80K Foundations of Interactive Game Design The Game Design Faculty strongly recommend taking CMPS 80K CMPS 80K is not a major requirement but may become one You will not be required to take CMPS 80K but it teaches useful game design knowledge Sections There is currently one discussion section for the class Monday 3 30 4 40PM Physical Sciences 140 Several of you have a conflict with this time A second section is in the process of being scheduled Will be an early evening time most likely Details Friday or Monday most likely Discussion Section Assignments handed back Help on assignments and project C XNA Course People Professor Jim Whitehead ejw cs ucsc edu Associate Professor Computer Science Office hours Tuesday 10 30am 12pm or by appointment Teaching Assistants Bill Manegold wdmanegold gmail com Readers Tutors Robbie Kavert rkavert ucsc edu Adrien Young akyoung ucsc edu Take advantage of our expertise Class web site www soe ucsc edu classes cmps020 Winter09 Syllabus When everything is due Homework assignments Project phase descriptions Links to useful tools Slides presented in class Evaluation criteria for assignments Introductions Everyone should stand up and introduce themselves Your name Your major Game you re playing right now Or your favorite game Class web site www soe ucsc edu classes cmps020 Winter09 Course Goals Learn basic principles of game programming Main game loop display of 2D sprites and 3D objects Collision detection shaders scrolling game worlds Audio Learn basic game AI techniques Simple behaviors A pathfinding Learn basic principles of object oriented design Subdividing a project into classes Unified Modeling Language structure diagrams Software design patterns Develop increased proficiency in programming C language coding focused assignments Learn techniques for working as a team Quarter long game project developed in 2 person team Computer Game Project Work in teams of 2 to create novel computer game C and XNA Game Studio Express will be taught in class Very impressive games are possible with this environment Created games can run on Xbox 360 and Zune Phases Team formation January 12 Game concept document January 26 Work breakdown and schedule January 30 Technical design document February 11 Game prototype February 23 Progress report March 2 Final game March 16 Grades Midterm exam 15 Final exam 15 Homework 30 3 assignments each worth 10 Term project 40 broken down as follows Percentages are of final course grade and sum to 40 Team selection 1 Game concept document 5 Work breakdown and schedule 3 Technical design document 7 Partially operational game prototype 3 Updated schedule 1 Final game project 20 Course Textbooks Learning XNA 3 0 Aaron Reed O Reilly 2008 Programming C 3 0 Jesse Liberty Donald Xie O Reilly 5th Edition 2007 Available at bookstore also available online Course readings are very important It will be very challenging to do well in the class if you do not keep up with the reading XNA Game Studio Express XNA GSE is a series of libraries for creating 2D and 3D computer games Uses C as the primary programming language Integrated with Visual Studio C Express Also now the full version of Visual Studio Games can run under Windows or on Xbox 360 It is possible to create professional games using this toolkit Quick poll of students with Windows machines Do we need XNA GSE installed in ITS labs Example games http catalog xna com en US gamescatalog aspx XNA Game Studio Express Architecture You write your game in C Using features in XNA Framework Runs on top of common language runtime Managed Code Game code C content XNA Framework Common Language Runtime CLR Windows APIs DirectX You provide Provided for you XNA Features 2D 3D graphics support Access to HLSL High level shader language Pixel and vertex shaders Audio support XACT cross platform audio tool Controller and keyboard input Xbox 360 controller Font support Content Pipeline Game save storage Networking and much more Installing XNA Game Studio Express Follow instructions on pages linked from http creators xna com en US downloads Also found on Tools page of course website Install Visual Studio Visual Studio is an integrated development environment editor debugger compiler Unless you currently use Visual Studio you want Visual C 2008 Express XNA GSE will work with Visual Studio 2008 Professional if you have that installed instead Install XNA Game Studio 3 0 You want version 3 0 the latest version This is the same version covered by the textbook Version 3 0 is broadly similar to version 2 0 XNA Creator s Club XNA Creator s Club Website http creators xna com Community website for XNA GSE Multiple complete games with source code Many tutorials and code examples Very active discussion forums Creator s Club Subscriptions Can put game on Xbox 360 Access to premium content Costs 49 four months or 99 year Trial membership free Available through Dream Spark or MSDNAA Allows you to put game on Xbox 360 XNA Community Web Sites XNA Team Blog blogs msdn com xna Announcements from the XNA dev Team Ziggyware www ziggyware com Developer oriented XNA news Recent contest for XNA tutorial articles Winner Skeel Keng Siang Lee s Introduction To Soft Body Physics XNA Development www xnadevelopment com XNA tutorials See also the Links page for links to other quality XNA websites Controllers XNA Game Studio Express allows you to use Xbox 360 controllers Normal Xbox 360 controller is Bluetooth wireless and is not recognized by the Windows Bluetooth manager Hence when developing game under Windows won t be able to test control scheme bad To create a game using Xbox 360 controller need to Buy a corded Windows Xbox 360 controller 35 shipping Google for xbox 360 controller windows for multiple online vendors OR buy an Xbox 360 wireless gaming receiver 20 shipping allows wireless controller to work with Windows Should buy now so you have it ready for when you start programming Can also create a game that uses keyboard input Would need to change control scheme to port to Xbox 360 Demonstration of Visual C Express XNA Demonstration of loading compiling and running one of the sample games for XNA Game Studio Express


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