Welcome to the Innovative Games Game Engine Tutorial! For those who don’t know me, my name is Sean James. I have been programming games with the XNA Framework for several years now, and I’ve been programming even longer. My goal is to help newcomers to the XNA Framework, C#, or newcomers in general learn the skills they need to build their games and projects. You don’t need to know much to get started with this tutorial, although general knowledge of the XNA Framework and some knowledge of C# or another language will probably be helpful. If necessary you can find these things elsewhere online.

This series is targeted at people looking to actually create full games for XNA. While other samples and tutorials are useful if you have a framework set up to incorporate them, they don’t teach much on their own, especially if you are new to programming or XNA.

We will be building a useful game engine from scratch, using only Microsoft Visual C# and the XNA Game Programming Framework. The engine is designed to make game development easy(ish.. it’s never really “easy”). It will be a fully featured game engine, supporting physics, 2D and 3D graphics and effects, scripting, and sporting an editor to ease scene and game development. And, because it runs on top of the XNA Framework, it will run on both Windows and Xbox, and the 2D parts of it will also run on the Zune.

With that out of the way, let’s get to work on our game engine! Head to the next tutorial to get started.