DIGIGIRLZVideo Games

And XNA

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

What Makes a Game

Types of Games Action Shooter Adventure Casual Simulation Rhythm Role Playing Serious Strategic

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

Fighting

Platformers

First Person Shooter

Third Person Shooter

Adventure

Action The Legend of Zelda

Stealth Tenchu Stealth Assassins

Suspense / Horror Resident Evil 5

Action

Stealth

Suspense / Horror

Casual

Puzzle Puzzle Quest

Puzzle

Simulation

Life The Sims 3

Construction Sim City 4

Vehicle Gran Turismo 5

Life Simulation

Construction Simulation

Vehicle Simulation

Rhythm

Dancing Dance Dance Revolution

Music Guitar Hero 2

Dancing

Music

Role Playing

RPG Fable II

Massively Multiplayer Online World of Warcraft

RPG

MMO

Serious

Education Oregon Trail

Training Military Training Simulations

Serious

Strategic

Real Time Dawn of War II

Turn Based X-Com: UFO Defense

Real Time Strategy

Turn Based Strategy

Independently Developed Games

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

XNA

What is XNA? Why XNA? What is C#?

How to Get XNA How to Install XNA

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

XNA

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

XNA

What is C#? Programming Language

Based on C++ (an older programming language) .NET Framework Object Oriented Programming

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

Other Resources

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

Credits

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