Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB .NET



Price: $49.99


Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB .NET (Apress) - September 2004Publisher: Apress - September 20, 2004

ISBN-10: 1590594010, ISBN-13: 9781590594018

Author: Ellen Hatton
Alexandre Santos Lobao
David Weller


440 pages




Book Description
The book's greatest strength: the fact that it is very much grounded in writing a game.

 

— Craig Andera, .NET Practice Lead, Wangdera Corporation

 

This highly-anticipated title provides a clear introduction to game programming for you, VB.NET programmers! Microsoft insiders have written an easy-to-read guide, so you can start programming games quickly. This book even includes an introduction to Managed DirectX9, and other advanced .NET features, like animation and sounds.

 

Code examples are actually complete games, and include .Nettrix , .Netterpillars, River Pla.NET, Magic KindergarteN., D-iNfEcT, Nettrix II (for the Pocket PC), and a version of the classic game, Spacewars.