C# Xna Made Easy Tutorial 1 - Intro & Install Video Lecture | C# Game Development: Game Making made Easy (English)

okay everybody um welcome to your first
tutorial on how to use X and a game
studio 4.0 uh and this is basically a
graphics library that's basically a
DirectX wrapper and it basically allows
you to make games 2d and 3d games using
the c-sharp programming language now for
a little bit of information for those of
you who don't know C sharp or XNA
c-sharp is a language developed by
Microsoft and yeah it's a language used
um that it's made for Windows
programming right and then it works
under the dotnet framework and like I
could talk all day about it but it's
basically a Microsoft based language so
the applications you make are for
Windows based applications and Windows
only so if you're a Mac user then you'd
have to use like a what do they call it
a portal or something you'd have to use
like wine or a mono or something like
that I'm not really sure about max or
UNIX or Linux I don't really know but
yeah and XNA is a DirectX wrapper now
what DirectX is um
DirectX is was basically built to make
3d and 2d games but it can get a bit
kind of complicated so they made XNA
game studio um to make it easier to to
code and make games in 2d and 3d space
so yeah well visual C sharp and XNA you
can get a game up and running within
minutes um and I also code in C++ and
stuff I prefer C++ over C sharp but C
sharp and XNA is really good and I'm
actually enjoying it quite a lot so yeah
so I'm going to show you guys how to get
into it so basically um for those who do
not have visual C sharp or XNA I'm going
to show you how to install it
now I would suggest that you have some
c-sharp knowledge or at least C++ and
Java knowledge if you don't then these
tutorials aren't meant for you I'm sorry
but you're going to probably have a bit
of trouble but anyways
let's go on to downloading visual C
sharp in case you don't have it so you
type in let's type in visual and if you
don't if you already have visual C sharp
then you can skip this part visual C
sharp 2010 Express download and we'll
click the top link and I'll bring in to
this URL and you'll just scroll down to
you see visual c-sharp 2010 Express
click that and you'll click install now
or and yeah I'll click cancel because I
already have Visual Studio of all the
languages but if you want a different
language and I guess you can select your
language over here to download it and
that's basically it so once you have a
visual C sharp um downloaded then you
want to get XNA game studio sorry
so XNA have an excellent game studio 4.0
download so the first link will click
that and then you can download it right
here the setup file now once you have
visual C sharp or Visual Studio setup
then when you go to the download
processor will automatically install it
for you
um install in for you into like your
visual studio or visual C sharp so like
also now after you're done all your
download to the vertical bar while so I
said I would guess that you would have
paused the video by now and studded it
so anyways
now when you're done your download
you're going to go to new project and
wait for it to load sorry for my
computers my laptop slow and it cleaned
it yet uh
okay to not respond okay in our mind so
I visual studio so I have all these
languages so I'll go to visual C sharp
so you go to video she sharp and you'll
see a new icon there that will say XNA
game studio 4.0 and what you want to do
what you want to do is select Windows
game now you can see you see Xbox 360
game and stuff like that you can make
360 games with XNA but I won't be
showing that as you have to have a arm
like developers thing which is like 99
bucks which I don't feel like playing
right now anyway so click Windows game
name it arm and set the folder you want
to save it in so I'm going to put I'm
going to save it as YouTube tutorials
you can name it whatever you want and
I'm going to click OK
and just give us some time don't know
why it's going so slow
okay
sorry so as you'll see you'll see game 1
CS and um most people shall not have
okay so you're going to see a lot of
these stuff so if you know sevillio C
plus C sharp I mean um you know what
using statements are you know they
include stuff and it's just like it
include or uh what is it called again in
Java I forget I forget what it's
basically including stuff that are not
like internally in the program yet until
you include it so we have to include
them the actual framework the audio the
content services or graphics input in
the media and you'll learn all about
that stuff I'll teach you where all
those of do so basically it comes with
set functions so this is the class or
game one class and um basically the
functions are initialized load content
so initialize is to initialize
everything into load contents load all
the graphics and the font and everything
unload content if you're unloading
anything um I never had seen much I
never used it much but yeah it can be
very useful um and then you have the
update to update everything the game
elements and the draw right so that's
all set up for you and you don't have to
code it by yourself it's all set up
right as you click the windows game
application so if we click f5 to debug
let's see what we get
so we get if I can zoom out here I don't
remember what my Zoom Out button is but
if you if you look at it you'll see a
blue window and yeah obvious a blue
window but it's filled with like a
cornflower blue kind of color and yeah
and you click the X button to close it
so that's basically it once you would
create the excellent project it creates
a program where it opens a window for
you and those are just the basics so
that's it for this tutorial
you already learn how to create a window
easily because of that and um hope you
like this tutorial and I hope you look
forward to the next one
so thanks for watching and bye