XNA Tutorial Series : Making a Tower Defence

I'll take a look when I have time later today. I hope this does a good job of explaining how to draw and maintain more than 1 image, because I haven't quite grasped the process of drawing multiple things, and also transitioning from 1 game screen to another (menu to game, quit back to menu, etc).

Thanks for the resource!

I've been looking for a tower defense tutorial in XNA, I'll definitely take a look.

Thank you!

Thanks for the replies guys!! Currently there are no tutorials about GUI or menus, but trust me, that is coming quite soon :D

I'd like to learn XNA by following your tutorials (I already know -some- C# and I'm an experienced programmer in other languages), but in your first tutorial you say the engine is loosely based on Nick Gravelyn's Tile Engine, but I can't seem to find it on the web. The old link is dead, and the new one I found by googling (http://nickgravelyn.com/archive/#tileengine) is dead too :-P

Thanks for the help

If I DO find the tile engine tutorial, should I read that first, or do you think your tutorial set is sufficient enough as a start to see how you go about creating a game (and then go and read the tile engine tutorial after)?

Hey, I would definitely recommend watching the whole series, it really is very useful, but it's not required, it just depends how much experience you have with C#

I found you a link : http://blog.nickgravelyn.com/2010/02/tile-engine-videos-on-youtube/

A new tutorial is up about adding in "Waves" of enemies!!

Tutorial 9 is now up!! This tutorial focuses on adding in multiple waves.

Amazing!

Congratulations friend!
I work with DirectX, but I issued the forum I frequent in my country (Brazil), ok?


:D

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Original post by VitaliBR Amazing! Congratulations friend! I work with DirectX, but I issued the forum I frequent in my country (Brazil), ok? :D

Thank you very much! :D

I've just uploaded another tutorial, Tutorial 10 : Creating the GUI (Part 1)

[Edited by - Firefly08 on December 23, 2010 4:08:42 AM]

Tutorial 11 : Creating the GUI (Part 2) is now up, and it will probably be the second to last tutorial in the series :(

I have just uploaded the latest tutorial in the series! Tutorial 12 : Adding a New Tower Type

I just added a new tutorial : Tutorial 13 : Adding the Slow Tower

Hey guys, I have just added the final tutorial in the series! Tutorial 14 : Polishing the Game. Hope you have enjoyed this series and hopefully you found it of some use!

Hi,

this looks like a great tutorial. I really want to read it through. Could you maybe host the tutorial in PDF form or at least add a print link to the individual posts? That would be greatly appreciated! This way I could have the whole tutorial in one file and not needing to access the webpage all the time.

Is there a reason why you can't just print them yourself?

Yes because it's totally unreadable. Usually articles have a print button which prints the text / article in a printer friendly format but I didn't see any link on the blog for this. If you just print the webpage it looks horrible.

Yes because it's totally unreadable. Usually articles have a print button which prints the text / article in a printer friendly format but I didn't see any link on the blog for this. If you just print the webpage it looks horrible.

There are free plugins to print web pages, like this one:

http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/smart-web-printing.html


Epson has one, too, I think.

I have uploaded one last addition to the series which should make porting the game to windows phone easier! Tutorial 14.5 : Drag and Drop Towers