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Luke Drumm is an experienced software developer and consultant who wrote his first computer game at age 10, and has been enthusiastically exploring the world of game development ever since. With the first public release of XNA in 2006, Luke quickly latched onto the technology and began creating and talking about how to create games within XNA at every possible opportunity. This culminated in his regular presence at conferences, game camps, and user groups, and in his becoming a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award, for XNA and DirectX, for at least four successive years. Luke lives in Sydney, Australia, with his amazing, patient, and supportive wife Cheryl, and two dogs, who may or may not rule the roost.
Jason Mitchell is a passionate .NET developer and an independent game development enthusiast. He has worked with Microsoft's XNA Game Studio since its initial release and has experience using it to create games on Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone.
Kenneth Dahl Pedersen , now aged 35, has been programming basically since he got his first computer at age 6, starting on the Commodore 64, with small programs that could do next to nothing. This quickly evolved when he migrated to the much more powerful Amiga 500 with some demos and light applications, and finally culminated when he got his first PC.
Since then, game development has held his interest in a vice grip, and Kenneth has studied numerous programming languages and APIs for this purpose. His repertoire includes C/C++, OpenGL, DirectX, C#, WPF, WCF, MDX, and XNA.
With the appearance of readily-available, high-end engines, such as Unreal Development Kit, Kenneth found another interest to keep him well-sated in his thirst for game development knowledge, UnrealScript, providing another mountain top to climb.
Kenneth is a Systems Analyst and Developer. Originally from Denmark, where he still works, he now lives in Sweden with his wife and baby daughter.
Other than being with his wife and daughter, he uses his spare time for game development, seeking new knowledge and dabbling in 3D visual arts in applications, such as 3D Studio Max and ZBrush. And of course, Kenneth is an avid gamer. After all, you cannot make games if you don't enjoy playing them!
First of all, I would like to thank my wife, Nina, for the patience she's shown me while I was doing this review. I have probably not been as helpful around the house as I should have been, while this was going on.
My beautiful daughter, Nadia, for always giving me a reason to smile and laugh.
And last, but certainly not least, Michelle Quadros, for believing in me and giving me this incredible experience and opportunity to do a tech review of this awesome book on XNA.
My advice to you, the Reader: Read it, cover-to-cover. You will not regret it, as it contains some absolute treasures of tips and techniques for your own game projects.
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The Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook is all about what happens once you've completed the various introductory tutorials, and want to create something with a little more substance.
In this book, you'll find examples of how to flesh out some of the more complex, or initially less intuitive, pieces of what goes into a full-blown game.
Not sure what it takes to add water to your Xbox 360 Indie game? Confused about maps for your Windows Phone game? Curious over what it takes to get started using Kinect with XNA? Then this book may just be for you.
, Applying Special Effects: Discover the principles behind some common special effects used in big budget titles, and add them to your own games.
some of the tricks behind creating landscapes in both two and three dimensions.
, Procedural Modeling: Explore what's involved in creating models in code, instead of using an external 3D modeling package.
, Creating Water and Sky: Add depth to your worlds with some virtual atmosphere.
and interact in intelligent and interesting ways.
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