In this game you are a ship protecting a planet from incoming asteroids. All in all this game took around 24 hours to complete, and comes in at 601 lines of code(including comments.) Izzy545 - Via MSDN Forums

My name is Francesco and I work as a computer programmer in a big italian company. In my spare time I'm currently studying the XNA Framework, and this is a diary of my efforts.

This is an easy look-up guide to my XNA 101 Tutorials that are posted on Windows Live Spaces. With the amount of tutorials there, it was hard to navigate, so this should make things a bit easier. The tutorials generally increase in complexity with the top of the list being the simplest.

A helpful and informative space targeted at anyone who is interested in game development using the Microsoft XNA Framework. This will probably by no means be the first nor best XNA blog out there, but it is special in that it is targeted at Southern Africans and I am hoping that I can bring a local flair to the amazing things that are being done with XNA abroad.

Most of my lessons focus on helping programmers optimize or add to their existing knowledge, there are plenty of tutorials out there to get you started for the first time. In fact, I've created a 3D game template that will help get you rolling with XNA and 3D if you'd like.

Jeff, of SharePod fame, has been getting into XNA lately.