Archive for the Game Engine Tutorial 2.0 Category

February 9, 2010

Game Engine Tutorial Part IV, Section 2 – Sprite

In game development, a “sprite” is simply a 2D image place somewhere on the screen. They generally make up the majority of a 2D game, and in a 3D game they may be used for the targeting reticule, the heads up display, etc. We are going to create a simple Sprite class that will handle [...]

January 5, 2010

Moving to XNA 3.1

I’m moving my Innovation Engine project to XNA 3.1 (the new version of XNA that came out a while ago). You won’t see any changes until the next hunk of code is uploaded (in the next chapter of the tutorial, for example), as I won’t be updating previous uploads. However, if you have not installed [...]