XNA Creators Club Online - beginner's guide 2d: chapter 4


	beginner's guide

2D Lessons

	1	Introducing the 2D Tutorial
	2	Creating the Game Project
	3	Adding Assets
	4	Drawing the Background
	5	Creating a Cannon
	6	Firing Cannonballs
	7	Adding Enemies
	8	Destroying Enemies
	9	Keeping Score
	x	Extra Credit - Community Tutorials

4. Drawing the Background

Draw your first 2D graphic - the backdrop for your game. Learn about loading assets through the Content Pipeline, sprite drawing and dimensions.

Step 1

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Survey the code provided to you by XNA Game Studio and instantiate your first classes.

Step 2

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Load a 2D texture into your game using the ContentManager class - learn about content loading at runtime.

Step 3

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Calculate the size of the game screen and draw your 2D texture to stretch to the size of the screen using SpriteBatch.Draw.