Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

Joe — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:37:02 GMT

TZ you have to instantiate the player object.

Add the below line to the initialize method.

player = new Player();

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

T E W — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:44:34 GMT

Anthward: Part 3 and 4 are posted. I updated the link is this blog for you.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

anthward — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:55:51 GMT

Great! Can't wait for Part 3!

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

ON-2012 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:17:42 GMT

Thanks T E W for this tutorial walkthrough series. Good work.

I look forward to seeing more of this kind of step-by-step documentation on Windows 8 MonoGame development available in the near future.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

T E W — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:30:04 GMT

TZ: Under properties for the Graphics folder, the file: player.xnb --> Set Build Action to property to Content and Copy to Output Directory property to Copy Always. Did you have this set already?? Let me know if this works for you, if not we can investigate further.

I am glad you asked this question, given I have been working to Post Part 4, I haven't come back to Part 2 to update this and correct my leaving out the folder structure part. I will do this now.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

TZ — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:00:33 GMT

The program crashes at this line:

player.Initialize(Content.Load<Texture2D>("Graphics\\player"), playerPosition);

player.xnb is in the Graphics folder which is within the folder Content in the project.

The error message says that Windows could not communicate with the target app.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

TZ — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:05:55 GMT

T E W - thank you for this detailed tutorial. Good job!

I can use this information for my project.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

T E W — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:46:19 GMT

Guys: Part 3 is posted.

Neil: This addresses your question about the folders.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

Neil Weller @tycholien — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:26:43 GMT

Just noticed that I had to change the build action of the player graphic to "content" for it to work. Might be obvious to others but I'm a newbie...

Great tutorial so far, looking forward to part 3.

re: Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game

JackieChan — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:34:13 GMT

Is there any way to use a .png asset instead of the .xnb?