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BRAND: Miles, Rob WEIGHT: 1.700000048 ITEM: Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio 3.0 UPC: 9.78074E+12 ITEM_ID: 5314616 PRODUCT_ID: 4648332 SKU: 9.78074E+12
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Title: Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio 3.0 - UnleashedAuthor: Miles, RobPublisher: Microsoft Press (June 10, 2009)Publication Date: 2009/06/10Number of Pages: 368Binding Type: PAPERBACKProduct Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
Product Description
Using XNA™ Game Studio 3.0, any programmer can master the art of game development and begin selling games to millions of Xbox 360 users worldwide. Now, there’s a practical, comprehensive guide to game development with Microsoft’s powerful new XNA Game Studio 3.0 and the entire XNA Framework.

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Understand essential XNA Framework concepts, including object creation, cameras, input handling, libraries, game services, and managing and extending the content pipeline
Create a 2D game that will run across 3 platforms (Windows, Xbox 360, and Zune) with a single code base
Create a Visualizer media player for the Microsoft Zune
Use the High Level Shader Language (HLSL) to communicate directly with graphics hardware
Bring realistic physics to your game action and realistic artificial intelligence to your characters
Create sophisticated 3D effects that use advanced texturing and a particle system
Build networked games, including multiplayer demos, turn-based games, and real-time network games
Create 4 full games–2D parallax side scroller, 3D shooter, multiplayer turn-based 2D card game, and a multiplayer real-time 3D game
Discover best practices for creating Xbox LIVE Community Games
Sell your finished game on Xbox LIVE Marketplace CD-ROM includes: All C# examples and source code presented in this book. About the Author
CTO at Robertson's, Marketing Group,
authored the previous edition of this book, Microsoft® XNA™ Unleashed: Graphics and Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows. Miles has been writing games and graphics software for more than 15 years.



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