VB.NET Game Programming Tutorial (XNA) - Part 1c: Setting up your game project

TUTORIAL 1 (cont.) - In this intermediate Visual Basic .NET game programming series we'll be exploring many of the exciting game development features that XNA 4.0 provides. We'll jump right into setting up project for a Super Nintendo styled RPG game.

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[codiddle]

You stay so calm lol. When I code in VB, I end up slamming my keyboard until it submits into doing whatever it that I want it to do. I just don't have the patience for VB. C# on the other hand is something I can work with... Good work, great job on the videos. Super helpful.

[WhatAboutFruits]

reaaaallly really great! Your are teaching in such a sympathic way.. Awesome :D

[JohnnyPhoenix]

(Just don't care about this nick.) I don't know how much I laughed for the entire time watching your videos and actually appreciating them as never before with any other else, you're kind of lazier than me, and that's really, really difficult to happen. XD Nice tutorials bro, keep on.

[tryitpro]

Thank you for responding so fast! and i have been following your tutorials, they are very good. im not sure if u saw my comment about the lists or not i was just wondering about that

[codiddle]

The .NET framework is pretty amazing

[Exsalve]

Great tutorial! Keep up the good work!

[AardaerimusDAritonyss]

That depends entirely upon what it is that you hope to create.:-)

XNA is a framework that is geared toward game design. The main benefit (I think) of XNA over native Windows' libraries is in the way that it can fully utilize graphics hardware. This gives a huge performance advantage over Windows GDI.

If you're not planning on designing a game or some other media-based application, then XNA may not be the best way to go, although you may still get some ideas from the videos.

[TizzyT]

can't wait for this series to be complete so I can port what I have so far over to XNA. Nice tutorials keep them coming. One thing though, If you are drawing to the screen with the backbuffer, what is the necessity of clearing the graphics if you are already going to clear the backbuffer which will draw over what was previously there? Wouldn't you then have 2 clears later one then? one to clear backbuffer and the one in this one which clears the graphics.

[JackPS]

Well knowing about the Globals now I can use those for my character stats, which I will be setting up before your next set of videos comes out :)

[AardaerimusDAritonyss]

Happy to help when I'm able. :-) Not sure if I caught the comment about lists or not. What were you wondering?

[inheaven]

Bro thank you so much for doing this.  My son wants to start programming video games and your tutorials are great

[AardaerimusDAritonyss]

Haha Thank you, sir.

I guess it all boils down to familiarity and what seems 'logical' to the developer. I love Intellisense, lack of semicolons, and non-case-sensitive syntax. It feels more efficient, and therefore more logical to me.

I'm just curious, but why on Earth would you be working with VB when you're proficient with C#, which is generally more widely accepted in the overall dev community??

[SSJKarma]

6:15, you set back the graphic device to nothing.
but i always wondered why you set it to backbuffer 3 lines above and then set it back to nothing. i mean what was the point of setting it just to unset it ? i'm lost there and i wanna know what that actually did.

also thanks for the great tutorials i did them all and im well on my way to making my fighting game.

[tryitpro]

Just a quick question. What would me using XNA improve or better than me developing form scratch (Something i had to do as a final project for a class in high school) a video of that said project is on my channel: Your help is appreciated :)

[tryitpro]

i was looking at the screen manger and the process of removing seemed a little unnecessary, i could be wrong because i have not watched the full series yet. but i was wondering why you passed it to base-screen before removing it, why not just add it straight to the remove list the iterate through that list and then remove it

[christopherelash]

Ok err got a problem here. the program works good until the line of code Globals.Spritebatch.Begin() 
It tells me the object reference was not set to an instance of an object. Have i screwed up somewhere or what? Anybody got something?

[codiddle]

school haha. They don't offer C#. VB is so close though I've learned most of C# through VB.

[Solidgabe]

i followed this exactly how you did it and it draws a purple screen? why?