Building Xna 3.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development
by James Silva (9781430218692)

Building XNA 3.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is written by James Silva, who recently won the prestigious Microsoft Dream Build Play gaming competition with his award-winning title The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, and coauthor John Sedlak, expert and Microsoft MVP for XNA/DirectX. This full-colour book is an in-depth and exclusive guide to the entire XNA game development process, showing you the way to creating your own gaming masterpiece. James Silva reveals the complete process he used to build his award-winning game and Microsoft MVP John Sedlak's expertise is brought to life with full-color illustrations and numerous code examples. You'll discover tips and techniques for creating a polished, high-quality game using very few resources, and learn to achieve the balance between coding and art that is central to all good games. James reveals the pitfalls he encountered in making The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, and his insight and suggestions show how you can avoid them.The book is packed with full-colour code and pictures to show you how things are done and exactly how they should look in order to give you valuable insights into XNA game development.

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