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XNA Small Group Workshop

Author: IGDA.SSC Webmaster
April 15, 2008
Posted in Technical, Workshops

Hi all,

The IGDA.SSC is organising a FREE small group workshop for XNA in the month of June 2008, on the Saturday of every week. The objective of this course is to introduce XNA to beginning programmers and the goal is for each individual student to learn the principles of a 2D game. If there is time, a introduction course to 3D will be provided as well.

  • Game architecture
  • Texture and Sprite manipulation
  • 2D Array Tilemaps
  • Physics with third party libraries
  • PC and Xbox360 input
  • Simple 3D if time permits

Here is techniques which we hope to learn (the game made eventually will be different, of course!). The video below is just one of the many sample 2D XNA videos, and this is by Nick Gravelyn (and if you are impatient to get started, you can go straight to his site and learn from his video tutorials!

Interested candidates are to

  • Have prior programming experience (self-taught, IT course)
  • Know the rudimentary of C# (or VB.NET, VB, PHP, ActionScript, Java, Javascript)
  • Understand loops, 2D arrays, pass by references and data structures such as List and Hash Map

As the course begins in June and now it’s beginning of April, if you are interested but not confident that you have the prerequisites, you can communicate in the forum where there will be a list of resources to help you. There will be no more than four participants in the course. One on one coaching is provided once per week and on the Saturday itself. Sorry, slackers are not tolerated. If you have questions, please reply to this post.

Students (or just graduated students) who have programming background are eligible.

PS. If you are really interested, but June is a bad period, the course could be held in July or August too. It depends on the candidates.

3 Comments »

  1. sounds cool, how do i sign up?

    Comment by andrew — April 18, 2008 @ 10:21 am

  2. Please send me an email to extrakun@yahoo.com.sg and you are considered signed up :)

    Comment by Extrakun — April 18, 2008 @ 12:19 pm

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