Beginning XNA 3.0 Game Programming: From Novice to Professional

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Contents at a Glance
5. Contents
6. Foreword
7. About the Authors
8. About the Technical Reviewer
9. Acknowledgments
10. Introduction
11. CHAPTER 1  Game Planning and Programming Basics
    1. Planning the Game
    2. Game Planning
    3. XNA Game Programming Concepts
    4. Summary
12. CHAPTER 2  2D Graphics, Audio, and Input Basics
    1. 2D Graphics
    2. Game Input
    3. Game Audio
    4. Summary
13. CHAPTER 3  Creating Your First 2D Game
    1. Design for the First Game: Rock Rain
    2. Let's Get to It
    3. An Xbox 360 Version of Rock Rain
    4. Summary
14. CHAPTER 4  Improving Your First 2D Game
    1. Planning Rock Rain's New Version
    2. Creating the Game Screens
    3. Navigating Between the Scenes
    4. Summary
15. CHAPTER 5  Basics of Game Networking
    1. Introducing Multiplayer Games
    2. Introducing XNA Networking
    3. Summary
16. CHAPTER 6  Rock Rain Live!
    1. Planning Rock Rain Live
    2. Adding the Support for Network Games
    3. Changing the Opening Screen
    4. Creating the Network Game Scene
    5. Creating the Game Sessions
    6. Let's Talk
    7. Synchronizing the Players
    8. Summary
17. CHAPTER 7  Rock Rain Zune
    1. Planning Rock Rain Zune
    2. Organizing the Game
    3. Modifying the Classes
    4. Deploying the Game on the Zune
    5. Summary
18. CHAPTER 8  3D Game Programming Basics
    1. 3D Coordinate Systems and Projections
    2. Vertices and Primitives
    3. Vectors, Matrices, and 3D Transformations
    4. Lights, Camera . . . Effects!
    5. Drawing the 3D Axis in XNA
    6. Models and Meshes
    7. Summary
19. CHAPTER 9  Rendering Pipeline, Shaders, and Effects
    1. Rendering Pipeline
    2. Shaders
    3. High-Level Shading Language
    4. Techniques, Passes, and Effects
    5. Shader Authoring Tools
    6. Summary
20. CHAPTER 10  Lights, Camera, Transformations!
    1. Cameras
    2. Lights
    3. Camera and Light Managers
    4. Object Transformation
    5. Summary
21. CHAPTER 11  Generating a Terrain
    1. Height Maps
    2. Creating the Terrain Class
    3. An Overview of Terrain Techniques
    4. Creating the Terrain Effect
    5. Drawing the Terrain
    6. Extending the Terrain Effect with Normal Mapping
    7. Querying the Terrain's Height
    8. Ray and Terrain Collision
    9. Summary
22. CHAPTER 12  Skeletal Animation
    1. Types of Animations
    2. Skeleton and Bone Representation
    3. Extending the Content Pipeline for Model Animation
    4. Using the AnimatedModel Class in XNA
    5. Summary
23. CHAPTER 13  Creating a Third-Person Shooter Game
    1. Designing the Game
    2. Starting the Game Engine
    3. Creating Helper Classes
    4. Creating the Game Logic
    5. Finishing the Game Engine
    6. Summary
24. CHAPTER 14  Closing Words
    1. Where You Are Now
    2. Where Do You Go from Here?
    3. Create Your Own Game
25. INDEX