Xna 4

[codemonkey]

Not sure if we have many developers hanging around here any more...

But if there are (or if anyone is interested in C# and XNA development) feel free to take a look at what I've been hacking around on recently teaching myself some XNA game development.

https://github.com/deanwilliams/XNA_Platform_Test

You can download the source directly, or fork the project if you use Git.

If you just want to give it a try, then Visual Studio 2010 Express is free.

http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started

[Mr Grapes]

Oooh will do :) thanks!

a mate of mine that does iPhone games has just ported his sprite engine to XNA for WP7. took him all of 3 days. :O

[codemonkey]

Crikey... it's taken me a fortnight just to get to my current state which is parallax scrolling backgrounds.... sprite drawing z-order is slightly wrong at the minute though.

Game programming is a very different paradigm to programming business type applications. The whole game loop and polling rather than event driven definately takes a slight mental adjustment.

[Mr Grapes]

Yeah, I toyed with it a few years ago, but want to have another serious stab at it again...