Develop Xbox Live Games and make Money

Develop X-Box Live Games and make Money

Do you love playing games? Have you ever thought how much money would the developers of the game like Mortal Combat or the developers of the game Call of Duty made by now.

The answer to this is Millions of $$$$$ dollars. And the count in their pockets is still increasing with each passing day. Internet today has increased the market potential for each one of us. If you are smart, you will definitely leverage the power of Internet and become the next billionaire. Lets get to know what all are the things required to become a top class X-boxGame designer/developer and earn in Billions :D

Developing of games is done mostly on mobile operating system platforms like windows phone. So lets get to know the technical details involved to get started.

Do you know what are the cool new things included in this windows Platform?

Top feature added are listed below :-

3D support (Courtesy of Infinite Flight Studios Sickhead Games)

New platforms: Windows 8, OUYA, Windows Phone 8, PlayStation Mobile (including Vita).

Custom Effects

PVRTC support for iOS

iOS supports compressed Songs.

Skinned Mesh

New Windows Installer

New MonoDevelop Package/ AddIn

Several Bug Fixes

Deeper XNA 4 Compatibility

Are you an absolute beginner?
Know Where To start From-

First Select Your Preferred platform visit this link

Preferred Platform

Now Get The required Sdk’s That Is Software Development Kit

First Read This Properly Read Me First

Now Select The Platform For Development

Choose and Download Either Windows Phone 8 or Windows Phone 7 Sdk

DownloadSDK's

Get Some Samples For You and Jump Start :

Download Samples And Examples to learn developing Apps here

So What Next ??

So guys from Here on, I’am Going to explain You some of the Beginning code to make you a bit familiar with the coding part.

First you have to add the correct XNA libraries

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Touch;

Now To process Further We need to add Objects >

First Go to file “game1.cs” or whatever name you had given at the time of starting a new project

Now Go to Player Declaration line of Code add:

KeyboardState currentKeyboardState;
KeyboardState previousKeyboardState;

// it uses to determine key presses

// if you use to develop for gamepad enabled devices the this code uses Gamepad states to determine button presses

GamePadState currentGamePadState;
GamePadState previousGamePadState;

//For The Mouse Interface it uses to track Mouse button press
MouseState currentMouseState;
MouseState previousMouseState;

// For The movement speed Of the player
float playerMoveSpeed;

So this Was Just The Begining of your code.

Up to here we have just started developing our app with the compatibility mode for the device

Handle the user Inputs:

Create fuction

Private Void PlayerInput(Input, user)

{

}

Write The Following Piece of Code in this Fucntion

player.Position.X += currentGamePadState.ThumbSticks.Left.X * playerMoveSpeed;
player.Position.Y -= currentGamePadState.ThumbSticks.Left.Y * playerMoveSpeed;

Use The Keyboard Or Keypad inputs from User:

if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Left) || currentGamePadState.DPad.Left == ButtonState.Pressed)
{
player.Position.X -= playerMoveSpeed;
}
if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Right) || currentGamePadState.DPad.Right == ButtonState.Pressed)
{
player.Position.X += playerMoveSpeed;
}
if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Up) || currentGamePadState.DPad.Up == ButtonState.Pressed)
{
player.Position.Y -= playerMoveSpeed;
}
if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Down) || currentGamePadState.DPad.Down == ButtonState.Pressed)
{
player.Position.Y += playerMoveSpeed;

One Of the Most Important things :

Make Sure That the player/user does not go out of screen or bound:

// Saving Previous State of the player

previousGamePadState = currentGamePadState;
previousKeyboardState = currentKeyboardState;


//Read The current state of the keyboard
currentKeyboardState = Keyboard.GetState();
currentGamePadState = GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One);


// now time to update player !!
UpdatePlayer(gameTime);

Beginners Guide

Made an awesome game, then submit it to the marketplace online and sell it online.
Get the money transferred to your bank account whenever someone purchases you game.

So that's all you need to get yourself started in the world of X-box game development. The journey of becoming a game developer may be a little rough in the start. But i recommend you to be persistent with your efforts. Spread the joy of entertainment and earn money.

If you still have any queries for getting started with X-box Game development, feel free to ask in the comment section given below :)

KGTricks

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Develop Xbox Live Games and make Money