XNA is the new thing these days, and with MS letting people run homebrew XNA C# programs on there 360 consoles, and even share them on xbox live with other people, who wouldn't be tempted to give it a try.  Whether your only interested in doing a 2d pacman game, full 3d wopper of a game or a just a triangle...you now can now do!!  With XNA you can you even gain full access to the GPU, letting you creating breath-taking effects which you wouldn't have thought possible.

So grab a coffee and get comfortable...and feel free to email me any thoughts or questions and I'll try and help as best I can.

Also if you want to chat, most days I can be found on IRC at #EFnet channel #xfactor.

bkenwright@xbdev.net

Rendering 2D&3D Objects, Files, Text, and more...

• Saying 'Hello World' - Text on screen is Easy!

• Writing a file on a 360. Data never need be lost again.

• Rumble in the Gamepad.

• Reading files (.txt,.x,.bin,etc) resource files!

• Drawing a few lines. 2D!

• Drawing 2D Texture .. Sprites, LoadScreens, SplashScreens and more!

• Loading .X 3D Model (A Car!)

• Custom .X Loader (Skinned Characters)

• Object Picking (2D to 3D)

• BouncyBall Collisions

• Render to Texture (Cool Menus)
• ...
  

Some Demos/Games you can download and look at the source code

Asteroids101

Classic favourite of all time - ships, asteroids, warp drive...and the full source code is easy to grasp and modify.

Mini Mario

    

Everyone remembers the classic game.  I thought I'd write a simple version - its not the same, but has may similar things, such as jumping on top of the creatures to kill them etc.  I even wrote a simple level editor that lets you create your own levels!