XBox 360 games: Halo3 or build it yourself?

Speaking Notes

Steps to Reproduce

"Now let's add graphics to our game. First, I'll create a folder called media and in it, I will now add a new ball and paddle. As you can see, the paddle and ball are the same as in the classic game."

First let's add a folder to hold the media material for the content pipeline.

• Right-click on Pong project in Solution
  Explorer
• Click Add > New Folder
• Call the folder Media

Now we will add the two media files:

Ball.png and paddle.png

"Now I'm going to change the properties of the images to copy if newer. This specifies if the image will be copied to the output directory when I'm building my solution. I want to make sure that if I decide to make changes to my graphics, that they are reflected in the build."

• Click on ball.png
• Go to the Properties window
• Select the Copy to Output Directory property
• Set the property to Copy if newer
• Click on ball.png
• Go to the Properties window
• Select the Copy to Output Directory property
• Set the property to Copy if newer
• Repeat for paddle.png

"Now we will create a class called Paddle. In order to do this, we'll create a new class file called Paddle.cs. Then, we have to add the Xna namespace and our implementation code. We have two variables to set the position of the paddle, one defining the coordinates and the other defining the speed. Next, we have a constructor to set the paddles properties. "

1. Right-click on the Pong project in
Solution Explorer
2. Click Add > New Item
3. Select a C# Class
4. Call the class Paddle.cs
5. Edit the file
6. Add using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
namespace to the namespaces
7. Highlight the class code inside Paddle class
8. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
9. Add the Paddle code snippet, titled:

Demo 2-Step 6 (Paddle Class)

"Then, we'll create a class called Ball and reproduce the same steps. The difference here is that instead of a constant speed, the horizontal and vertical speed is randomized."

<<Adding the code is similar to the paddle.cs component, refer to that for instructions, this is the previous demo component.>>

1. Right-click on the Pong project in
Solution Explorer
2. Click Add > New Item
3. Select a C# Class
4. Call the class Ball.cs
5. Edit the file
6. Add using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
namespace to the namespaces
7. Highlight the class code inside Ball class
8. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
9. Add the Ball code snippet, titled

Demo 2- Step 6 (Ball Class)

"The next thing we need to do is add the variables. Let's open the main class and add variables to initialize graphics in our game."

1. Edit Game1.cs
2. Scroll to right after the ContentManager
variable declaration in the Game1 class
3. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
4. Add the variables code snippet, titled

Demo 2- Step 7 (Variables)

"Next, we'll add a ResetGame method to initialize the elements in the game."

1. Scroll right after the variable declarations in the Game1 constructor
2. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
3. Add the ResetGame code snippet, titled
   1. Demo 2 –Step 9 (Reset Method)
4. Go to the Intialize method and add ResetGame(); after the TODO comment.

"We need to load the textures and initialize the sprites that we are using in the game. As you can see, the textures are 2D and are referenced from our Media folder."

1. Scroll to the LoadGraphicsContent
method
2. Right-click inside the loadAllContent
conditional block
3. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
4. Select Code Snippet
5. Insert the code to load the Textures
and initialize the SpriteBatch

"Finally, we need to add some code to our Draw method. This will draw the graphics on the screen from the SpriteBatch including the two paddles and the ball. "

1. Scroll to the Draw method after the TODO comment.
2. Right-click inside the Draw constructor
3. Right-click and select Insert Snippet
4. Select Code Snippet
5. Insert the snippet titled:

• Demo 2 – Step 11(Code for Draw Method)

"The last step is to build and launch our game. As you can see, the graphics now appear."

(Remember the game doesn't move, you have only loaded the graphics.)

1. Click on the F5 function key to launch
the application