Chapter 3. Getting Player Input
In this chapter, you will
Find out how Microsoft XNA represents the gamepads and keyboards.
Discover the C# language structures that let us get player input.
Write some really silly games and scare people with them.
Introduction
You now know the basics of computer game programming. You know that a program is actually a sequence of statements, each of which performs a single action. You have seen that statements are held inside methods, each of which performs a particular task, and that methods are held in classes along with data. The program itself works on data values, which are held in variables of a particular type, and the program can make decisions based on the values that the variables have. (If none of this makes ...
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