Part II: Creating 2D Games with XNA
In the first part of the book we became familiar with the basics of game programming and C# and made some little text based programs. That's all good, but now it's time for things to get more interesting. In this second part we're going to start programming 2D graphics and make a complete game. The game we'll be making is called Ship Fighter, it's going to be a 2D top down game, similar to the old Galaga game. If you want to see the final result for this section go ahead and download the ShipFighter2D project from xnagamemaking.com and build and run it. In the course of making this game will learn all things you'll need to know to make 2D games with XNA.