1. Introduction
2. Sprites
3. Vectors
4. More Sprites
5. Movement Part 1
6. Movement Part 2
7. Text
8. Distributing Your Game





Stay tuned for the latest addition to the complete games tutorial series: Tower Defense. This game will dive into more advanced techniques and animations



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Welcome to the XNA Basic Series! This series will get you started with XNA and teach you the basics before heading off to the Complete Games tutorials. There will be no C# introduction this time, so if you do not know C#, you can ask us for some help.

This tutorial introduces you to XNA and the basic program it will generate for you. Here are the prerequisites:

*Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C# 2008 Express
*XNA Game Studio 3.0 for development
*DirectX Runtime (included in XNA installer)
*A nice cold drink!

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