OpenGL Camera 2d with zoom and rotation
I’ve been working on OpenGL for some time now and one of the things that some people have asked me is how to do that 2d camera with zoom and...
OpenGL 2D Independent Resolution Rendering
Around two years ago I made a tutorial for XNA in which you could render 2D games scaled to the current window resolution with proper letter-boxes or pillar-boxes. As many...
Xbox 360 Controller Input in C++ via XInput
So you have that Xbox360 controller laying around and want to connect it to your game? On XNA this is an out of the box option but if you’re using...
Using Git for revision control
If you are coding, no matter what it is, games, software, websites, you should be using a code revision control of some sort. Are you using? Cool. Is it Git?...
Making Big Grass Tiled Backgrounds in XNA
I’ve seen this quite a bit around on XNA forums and got 2 emails last week asking about this: I want to make a 3000×3000 grass background by tiling this...
XNA 2D Independent Resolution Rendering
Note: 22/04/2013 – Due to popular request I made an article about achieving this effect in OpenGL Independent Resolution Rendering?? What’s this all about? Basically a way of not caring...
Drawing Lines in XNA
One of the things I realized is very handy when prototyping or debugging is to draw a line on a specific location. Like drawing lines around collision boxes to see...
Xna Screen Manager
I know there’s lot’s of this stuff over the internet but I keep bumping into people asking for this. A way to easily switch from a Game Screen to a...
How to do a XNA fps counter
Frame rate or FPS, how it is most commonly known is a way for you to know how many images per second is you game drawing. The more the better....
How to do a Xna Log file
Although the title says XNA log file this is actually a C# log file, I’ve just thrown this title cause lot’s of people search for xna log instead of C#...
Using PerfHUD with XNA
I am definitely a fan of ATI cards. Had a few Geforces but didn’t liked them very much. I actually noticed image quality decrease when switching from an old Radeon...
XNA Camera 2d with zoom and rotation
07/01/2011 – By popular request updated to XNA 4.0, xna 3.1 code is still there too One of the things I keep finding is people asking how to do a...