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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.

Print | posted @ Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:33 PM

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Gravatar # Need tutorials on Menu creations
by Claton Hendricks at 3/17/2008 12:51 AM
hi George,

I am one of those guys who have followed on your articles since you came up with the site(Thank you very much), but left touch of it as there werent any new articles. I am happy to see that you back on track :) I love those tut on 2.0, now that you have taught us how to scroll backgrounds and walk,jump sprites its time now to teach us how to create Menus & how to save game state. it will be very helpful to create a complete game. No Presure George 1 tut at a time :)
Keep up the good work.

Regards,
Claton
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by George Clingerman at 3/17/2008 7:24 AM
Thanks Claton! I really appreciate the comment.

As soon as I'm done with all the re-writes, I'll be sure to add those to the list.

Hopefully by continually building upon previous tutorials we can get close to a full game...we'll just have to see! :)
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by Scott at 3/18/2008 10:44 AM
I've just discovered your tutorials (and have just gone through the first few), but they have been great. I look forward to seeing what's next!
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by George Clingerman at 3/18/2008 10:51 AM
Glad to hear you've been enjoying them Scott. Thanks for taking the time say something, I really appreciate it!
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by Pirola at 3/20/2008 8:49 AM
Hi, George!

I think your tutorials are great! Congratulations for your work! I'm really learning the basics with them!

Thanks a lot!
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by Kris at 3/23/2008 12:26 AM
Great tutorials, they've really gotten me of to a good start learning XNA. I took a few of them and started combining things, like adding the health bar to the wizard tutorial.
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by Joshua Schell at 3/26/2008 7:42 AM
Thanks so much for the help. I had bought a book "XNA Game Programming..." by Wrox and it was hard to understand. However, thanks to you, I can understand what is going on (because I'm a noobie). Keep adding to the site because your an excellent teacher.
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by Jon Cheung at 4/15/2008 5:12 PM
Hey!!

i have tried a few tutorials and had problems with them either not running properly from the next lessons due to slight changes they made, or different versions of XNA,

yours have been simple and effective to learn.

only one thing i noticed as i went thought, on the fireball tutorial you say

"The Update method now needs to start Updating our Fireballs as well. Modify the Update method in the Fireball.cs class to look like the following."

i didnt put it in this class, i put it into the wizard.cs class as i thought that was what you ment. it works fine this way. if that is what you ment then just a heads up :)

if it is for another reason please feel free to email me!

look forward to you future updates!

kind regards
Jon
Gravatar # re: XNADevelopment.com - The Wizard: Part Four (2.0)
by guy at 5/14/2008 11:38 AM
you tutorials helped me a lot but i think that there is only one thing missing to complete the fireball tutorial or a fifth part for the wizard tutorial would be collision detection, say our wizard hits another wizard with a fireball to cause some damage.

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