Understanding Microsoft's XNA gaming environment - Author Chris Savolskis

1. Digigirlz Video Games And XNA

2. Introduction What Makes a Game Types of Games Whiteboard Talk Independently Developed Games The Games We Play Game Time XNA What It Is Why XNA How to Get It How to Install It Questions / Comments Contact Information

3. What Makes a Game Types of Games Action Shooter Adventure Casual Simulation Rhythm Role Playing Serious Strategic

4. Action / Shooter Fighting Street Fighter II Platformers Castlevania: Symphony of the Night First Person Shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat Third Person Shooter Gears of War 2

5. Fighting

6. Platformers

7. First Person Shooter

8. Third Person Shooter

9. Adventure Action The Legend of Zelda Stealth Tenchu Stealth Assassins Suspense / Horror Resident Evil 5

10. Action

11. Stealth

12. Suspense / Horror

13. Casual Puzzle Puzzle Quest

14. Puzzle

15. Simulation Life The Sims 3 Construction Sim City 4 Vehicle Gran Turismo 5

16. Life Simulation

17. Construction Simulation

18. Vehicle Simulation

19. Rhythm Dancing Dance Dance Revolution Music Guitar Hero 2

20. Dancing

21. Music

22. Role Playing RPG Fable II Massively Multiplayer Online World of Warcraft

23. RPG

24. MMO

25. Serious Education Oregon Trail Training Military Training Simulations

26. Serious

27. Strategic Real Time Dawn of War II Turn Based X-Com: UFO Defense

28. Real Time Strategy

29. Turn Based Strategy

30. Independently Developed Games The Games We Play games.msn.com www.freeonlinegames.com www.addictinggames.com games.yahoo.com games.aol.com

31. XNA What is XNA? Why XNA? What is C#? How to Get XNA How to Install XNA

32. XNA What is XNA? XNA stands for XNA is Not Accronymed XNA 3.1 Easily create games for Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune Based on the .NET Framework Who is XNA for? Hobbyists Academics Independent Game Developers

33. XNA Why XNA? It’s FREE! Large amount of community support Fairly easy to learn

34. XNA What is C#? Programming Language Based on C++ (an older programming language) .NET Framework Object Oriented Programming

35. XNA How to Get XNA XNA Creators Club Click on “Resources” Click on “Download” You need: Microsoft C# Express Studio XNA Game Studio 3.1 DirectX Runtime Web Installer Only need if using Windows XP or earlier

36. Other Resources

37. Questions / CommentsWebsites Contact Information: Chris Savolskis Websites of interest: XNA Developer Center msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/xna XNA Creators Club creators.xna.com Microsoft DreamSpark www.DreamSpark.com

38. Credits Pictures were taken from the following web sites: IGN.com GameWallPapers.com