Your question is such a big area that its hard to know where to start.

I would recommend that you lok at Nicks tile turorial and the RPG game starter kit. Most 2d tile based games handle larger graphics by splitting them across multiple tiles to simplify things.

You don't.... start simple add on from there... split your large objects up into 4 smaller tiles. When they are drawn side by side they will look like one large object.

As I said its really hard to answer such vague questions. If you want to avoid tiles and just use a large bitmap you will use memory a lot more and you will need some kind of editor to mark polygons or regions of the screen for collisions.

Or you can just make all the objects 2d sprites and use a bounding ectangle check for each one.

Maybe if you can give us a better idea of they type of game you want to write and specirfc problems including what you have already tried that will help.

Install the starter kit and then choose New Project in visual studio. You will find the starter kit as a template in the XNA 2.0 folder in that dialog.

What I really want to do is not a tile engine, the reason is because the level has to contain enemies, house, and bushes, and they all will be fully destructable. So, my idea is that I should make a class for each object (House, AutoTurret, Bush) and then just put down there positions like in a tile engine. I ran into problems when I created multiple instences and added them to lists. I want a style like:

int[,] Level = new int[MaxColumns, MaxRows]

{

};

So, is that possible to do it that way?? Would it even work? And, I can't even install starter kits. I have to have XNA 2.0 to install it.

aalbaughata:

I can't even install starter kits. I have to have XNA 2.0 to install it.

Why don't you have XNA 2.0?