XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers

A practical handbook for game programmers and developers covers the fundamentals of XNA GSE, as well as the field of game programing, game consoles, and the basics of game design, discussing game architecture with a focus on Xbox 360 and the game coding process and taking users through two major game examples--a 2D strategy game and a 3D simulation game--to demostrate the topics of .NET, Direct X, C#, and object-oriented programming. Original. (Intermediate)