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in a nutshell you need to know how to program pretty well to get anywhere with it. but if i remember rightly Torqe created like a point n click game creator that you can buy for it or something, i wouldnt bother with it personally, xna and c# are not hard to learn at all i figure with a couple of hours a night you could get something up within a week and it'll go from there. theres so much documentation for xna! a little googling and youll have an immense amount of resources, and with it being a microsoft thing you have support and a massive community to help you! all in all there is a learning curve but not a difficult one
From my understanding as a DirectX programmer, XNA is basically a SDK that works with DX so that you can create games for the Xbox. If you are writting a game, you need to have a much better understanding of game structure and how to plan a game than coding since coding tends to be the easy part. I have written games before for class and even for fun and the most important step is planning how the game parts will work together because without it, you have no way of getting all the parts to work together.
i agree with fffanatics, a good, logical design knowledge is imperitive when making games, going on in there like a bull in a china shop just doesnt work! but after a while programming you should have a decent library of code that you can re-use for instance collision classes and other classes like animation. this again saves you alot of time and also allows you to evolve as a developer by building on what you already have
QUOTE(roooss @ Apr 20 2008, 12:11 PM)  in a nutshell you need to know how to program pretty well to get anywhere with it. but if i remember rightly Torqe created like a point n click game creator that you can buy for it or something, i wouldnt bother with it personally, xna and c# are not hard to learn at all i figure with a couple of hours a night you could get something up within a week and it'll go from there. theres so much documentation for xna! a little googling and youll have an immense amount of resources, and with it being a microsoft thing you have support and a massive community to help you! all in all there is a learning curve but not a difficult one i am a kiddo in programming and the only thing i can gurantee is that yes it is to do with programming and its not one of those wysiwig programs. IF you dont know much of game programming then i can tell you something. You could download a free software name game make.Search it on google. Its a very easy one and has a ton of good quality tutorials for you to learn the software in a second. I have made 2 games from the software. One is a game like pac man which is the first game and the easiest to make. Second game i made was a platform game. the char was a football and then reach the goal in the end. I made 3 levels and then left it as it wasnt a flash game. I needed a flash game for a website. And yes , the thing you mentioned about the google thing . Its so completely right. You can get a ton of information due ot google.
When I tryed using it, It seemed like it is really only for the xbox, am I right?
Nope. You can make either Xbox 360 games or PC games, but I believe you need to have both an Xbox Live account and a Creator's Club subscription to be able to put things on the Xbox. You can make PC games for free.
Be ready for a lot of programming though, as there are very few visual editors of any sort for XNA and it has (at least last time I looked at it) no built-in collision or animation functions. There are a number of game engines built on XNA though, and many of them do have the things that XNA is missing.
I have tried to make a cupple games for xna, but im quite a nub at that type of stuff.
QUOTE (Idolon @ Jun 24 2009, 08:33 PM) Nope. You can make either Xbox 360 games or PC games, but I believe you need to have both an Xbox Live account and a Creator's Club subscription to be able to put things on the Xbox. You can make PC games for free. Be ready for a lot of programming though, as there are very few visual editors of any sort for XNA and it has (at least last time I looked at it) no built-in collision or animation functions. There are a number of game engines built on XNA though, and many of them do have the things that XNA is missing. not true. if you still go to high school/college, they'll give you a free subscription at dreamspark.com to find out quick starter tutorials: download C# express and then XNA. After that go to Help>Tutorials (something close to that). or you can search on microsoft "visual studio 2008 sp1 msdn library" which will give you a ton of tutorials for c# (start on that before going to XNA). edit: yea! my 30th post!
I'm a designer, but I'd like to learn programming at some point. I had a few unsuccessful game projects but I still wanna do something awesome.. I've heard a lot of good stuff how XNA's great, but I think that if someone's serious (and full of money) in game development will but the Torque3D.. It offers so freaking much !
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