How To - Start With XNA

Hi! My name is Hampus and I feel that XNA is darn easy to work with and I know there might be people out there who have been thinking "I'd like to make a game, but it's probably too hard.". Well, it's not super-easy ofcourse, because there's a lot of hard work you have to put in to it. I recommend that if you don't understand most of the things in this video, you have to learn how to code normal applications in say Visual Studio to begin with.

I hope you find this video inspiring in the sense that you get to see just how easy it is to put something on a screen in XNA.

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[mtp1717]

real simple question. At about 1:45 you renamed Game1 to MyXNAGame. Then you renamed all instances of Game1. What did you push to do that? I'm using studio2010, I tried right click, tab, and a few others and cannot find the option.

[silverljus]

@mtp1717 Didn't think about how I missed explaining that "trick", you press ALT+SHIFT+F10 and you get the options listed that you saw. I think you need to have the marker on the text underlined with the wavy red for it to work.

[CyclopsTelivision]

Thanks bro, helped a lot. Please make more vids concerning XNA.

[silverljus]

@CyclopsTelivision Thank you, I'm glad it helped in any way.

[iflyykid]

spriteBatch.Draw(texTotalWarfa­re, new Vector2(10f, 10f), Color.White); thats my code but when i try to test the game it says: This method does not accept null for this parameter. Parameter name: texture

can anyone help

[silverljus]

@iflyykid Your texture texTotalWarfare isn't loaded, you need to content-load it. You might be using it before it's loaded, if you have the texture-loading code already in. Hope that helps. :)

[Dillybar777]

oh my gosh this looks soooo much easier than java

[Netaro1000]

Silverljus.. Svensk?

[ninehoursful]

what programming language should a person know to work in XNA VS!! Your help would really be appreciated..

[GnRJay08]

@iflyykid you could try doing the same thing but add a comma and then write null, so , Null after the Color.White.

If it's saying it doesnt accept null, then look up what the last variable is and experiment entering different values for it.

[AnimationSector]

thanks a lot! But how do you memorize all of that?

[guyon2342]

@SDShadowsoldier indeed, i dont think VB coding is going to get you anywhere :s I'm starting a Game Technology study next year and we learn C# under XNA environment immediately there :D