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C# is a multi-paradigm, managed, strongly typed, garbage-collected, programming language created by Microsoft in conjunction with the .NET platform.

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Creating a new instance, C#

It sounds like you have your game working, which means you have an instance of bat and ball somewhere in your code (Game1.cs or its equivalent), I assume. If you need your ball object to react to the …
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Implementing hitbox polygon

This seems like a good place to use Composition. Give the Entity your Polygon class as a property and update it whenever the entity moves. public class Entity { public Polygon Hitbox { get; pr …
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Xna performance

Yes. The XNA Framework is perfectly capable of building any type of game. If I were you, I would worry more about building a game first, rather than how well it will run once built.
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How can I improve my isometric tile-picking algorithm?

After taking a closer look at the programmed algorithm and what I had on paper, I had left out a modification on the Y-axis before the conversion. I needed to subtract half of the tile height during …
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Is there a simpler way to create a borderless window with XNA 4.0?

When looking into making my XNA game's window border-less, I found no properties or methods under Game.Window that would provide this, but I did find a window handle to the form. I was able to accomp …
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More Efficient Data Structure for Large Layered Tile Map

as soon as I change that data structure to a my own defined MapCell class (which only contains a single field: byte terrain) my game's memory consumption rockets up to 400+ MB. Objects in man …
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How can I improve my isometric tile-picking algorithm?

I've spent the last few days researching isometric tile-picking algorithms (converting screen-coordinates to tile-coordinates), and have obviously found a lot of the math beyond my grasp. I have co …
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Game Server on Windows Azure

So, will Windows Azure work for that Yes, Windows Azure will work. or is there any other services that can provide something like that? If you want to develop and run a .NET game server, yo …
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How do I drag my widgets without dragging other widgets?

I have a bunch of drag-able widgets on screen. When I am dragging one of the widgets around, if I drag the mouse over another widget, that widget then gets "snagged" and is also dragged around. Whil …
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UI mockups to the code

The solution is quite simple and is used by a great number of games. All you have to do is treat your fonts as if they were sprites. Have your designer draw out the entire range of numbers and lette …
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XNA 4.0: 2D Camera Y and X are going in wrong direction

All of my Camera classes start with this as a base: public class Camera { private Vector2 position = Vector2.Zero; public float Left { get { return position.X; } set { posi …
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How many BasicEffects do you have in a Game? What is the best way to render multiple objects...

It's actually simpler to embed the texture reference with the model itself. That way, when you load your model via the content pipeline, the texture is loaded with it automatically. This thread has s …
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