Hey,

Just a quick question, What's the difference between C# and XNA? Do they both have the same syntax? I am learning C# but I'm not sure which is better for game programming.

Thanks in advance.

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XNA is a graphics library, basically wrapping DirectX to be accessible in C#. You might want to look up what API means.
In terms of hardware accelerated graphics your choices are basically OpenGL and DirectX, and other Frameworks that wrap those in nifty functions to be easily usable (XNA basically being one of those).

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So it's a bit like lwjgl for Java?

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XNA is a framework plugin for C# (and apparently any dot net language). It takes care of things like graphics/animation, sound, user input, that sortof thing. It sits on top of DirectX so that you don't have to muck with raw DirectX code yourself (its fairly complex so that's a good thing). You install the XNA plugin for your C# IDE, and then when you go to make a new project, you get the option "XNA Framework 4.0 Game". What it does is it basically sets up a "template" for you. You get a LoadContent() method, a Draw() Method, Initialize(), and Update() to name a few. If you click RUN right off the bat, youl get a blank 'game' running at 60+ fps with its own working game loop. All you have to do is load your custom content, and add your game logic.

So your actual coding will still happen in C#, but youl get new commands and techniques that come with XNA.

Very powerfull and easy.

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Okay, excellent I just installed XNA so that I can code some epic gamez! I am working in a text based game at the moment though

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cool

That's a good place to start if you're just learning the language.

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THanks I'll remember to upload it and share it with the forums once I have a stable release

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Is it?

I personally don't like the way the content pipeline works, and there's a bunch of annoyances going on with the effects and custom meshes, so i don't like it all that much. It is certainly fast and easy to work with, if you don't want anything extraordinary. Theres a good bunch of third party code for importing and playing skeletal animation, physics and all that good stuff.

But for a text adventure, pure C# will be good enough

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You don't have to use the content pipeline and you can replace a lot of other stuff if you want. That's the great thing about it not being a game engine.


Define "extraordinary. A bunch of awesome games have been done in XNA. The Sunburn engine adds even more awesomeness.


Not if you want to get it on the Xbox 360.

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Have fun playing textadventures with xbox controllers then

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lol, can u imagine the reaction of your typical Xbox gamer to a text game?

"OMG wherez all DA l33+ grAFixXX?? Why cant I MOVE, how do i SHOOT ahhhhh" *smashes controller* ....

"..."

"...maaaaaa..... need money for a new controller...."

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You have, in verbatim, described my friend when I showed him a 2D game on the Xbox.
He just couldn't understand that not all games were 3D.

Lol, I wonder Xbox gamers reaction to the text based game in Black Ops xD

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Relevant XKCD.

Greatest webcomic ever xD

Oops, sorry, I posted that xD Didn't know I wasn't logged in

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