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re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Rob S — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:26:37 GMT

Just wanted to say that this is an excellent tutorial and has helped me a lot.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 4: Adding and Processing Player (User) Input

Haddi — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:13:20 GMT

Hello,

First i just want to say that I love that you have taken yourself some time to make this tutorial.

Now to the sad part :) I have tried to do this through a WP8 Device but gesture.Delta is always NaN.

Do you know if there is a general error that I have missed if I get that result?

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

trager — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:48:04 GMT

Good stuff, although I have noticed a bit of a stutter in the scrolling as if the wrong position is being used...possibly a mistype but I can't see it and would be eager to hear if anyone else has had this problem.

Looking forward to the next article.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

kcoul — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:42:06 GMT

Hi Tara,

In the event you are using Windows Live Writer to publish your blog entries, for the code snippets plugin you should deselect the "Alternate lines" option so your code snippets do not get spaces inserted between every line. Selecting "Use container" will add a box around the code to help separate it from the blog text.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Leo — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:20:52 GMT

Thank you Tara, it was 2 problems, the rectBackground wasn't initialized and I was using the png and not the xnb files :(

Now, everything is working and looking nice.

Anxiously waiting for part 6 :D

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

T E W — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:53:52 GMT

Hi Leo: In the comments Dave caught an mistake that I made in the blog that I forgot to post the entire code in my Initialize method. One key piece missing is the correct instantiation of the rectBackground object. Make sure to add this call in the Initialize method -> rectBackground = new Rectangle(0, 0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height);

Let me know if that works.

-TEW

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Leo — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:36:33 GMT

(soorry for my bad english)

Amazing series, thank you Tara. I am following the series in windows 7, vs2012. My game has a problem rendering the images, it looks like that where should be transparent, it is drawing white... what could be wrong?

Here is an image of the problem:

http://i.imgur.com/AtF5gpH.png

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Wins — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:20:53 GMT

great blog... looking forward to the next parts.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Dave — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:59:13 GMT

Got it.

Place rectBackground = new Rectangle(0, 0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width,

GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height); in the initialize method.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background

Cannon — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:14:17 GMT

Thanks for a great blog, can you suggest any open source tool to create those graphics like in skydrive.