Beginning XNA 3.0 Game Programming

Bruno Evangelista is a lead programmer at Tectoy Digital (TTD.com). Previously, he was a graphics programmer at Ilusis (Ilusis.com) and a software engineer at Olympya (Olympya.com). As an XNA developer, Bruno was a finalist in the first and second Microsoft XNA Challenge Brazil. He also maintains an open source skeletal animation library for XNA, named XNAnimation (Codeplex.com/xnanimation). Besides his professional experience, Bruno had hosted some talks and courses about game development at conferences, including SIBGRAPI, SBGAMES and Microsoft Gamefest (Brazil). Bruno received bachelor's degree in computer science from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and is a master's student in computer science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He lives in the beautiful city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His works can be found at BrunoEvangelista.com.

• Game Planning and Programming Basics.- 2D Graphics, Audio, and Input Basics.- Creating Your First 2D Game.- Improving Your First 2D Game.- Basics of Game Networking.- Rock Rain Live!.- Rock Rain Zune.- 3D Game Programming Basics.- Rendering Pipeline, Shaders, and Effects.- Lights, Camera, Transformations!.- Generating a Terrain.- Skeletal Animation.- Creating a Third-Person Shooter Game.- Closing Words.