Sunday, March 16, 2008

XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)

thewizardshooting I just finished up the fourth and final part to the Wizard and posted it to my site at XNADevelopment.com. This final installment in the series covers adding the ability to have the Wizard shoot magic fireballs. So creating projectiles and maintaining them it covered in the tutorial.

This has been a fun (but LONG) set of tutorials to write. Let me know what you think of them so I can either continue doing tutorials in this style or adjust them. I'm always happy to hear feedback. Several things I've changed about the tutorials and even about the site layout itself has been from feedback I've received from the community.

Head on over and checkout The Wizard: Part 4 - Making a Sprite Shoot Fireballs and let me know what you think.

posted @ Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:33 PM | Feedback (9)

XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Three (2.0)

thewizardducking Part 3 of the Wizard has just been posted to XNADevelopment.com. This part in the Wizard series covering sprite movement and actions shows how to add the ability for your Wizard sprite to "duck". This introduces you to the concepts of using a sprite sheet and learning to change "frames" for your sprite in game.

I'm making a serious effort to deliver the re-write of the original Wizard code in smaller, cleaner and more digestible chunks. While the original tutorial "worked", I knew the code wasn't as clean as it could be and I felt like I was throwing too much at you at once. Let me know if you think if it's improvement this time around. I'd be curious to hear from those of you who went through the tutorial before to check it out again now to see what you think.

Check out The Wizard: Part 3 - Making A Sprite Duck and let me know what you think. I always enjoy reading the comments and emails that I get.

posted @ Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:17 AM | Feedback (0)
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