[quote user="jwatte"]That's fine -- if the class is more like "shop" or "art" and less like "physics" or "math," then that's all fair. However, then you should not involve programming, IMO. Trying to involve programming will just lead to woes. Thus, XNA is not what you want to use. ...

[quote user="jwatte"]That's like trying to teach a "Latin poetry" class when the students haven't yet learned Latin. You have to crawl before you can walk. You have to learn to program before you can learn to program games. In fact, it would be useful if you also already required logic, classical mechanics, linear ...

Thanks for the link to engines and also for the list of things to look for in the engines (which wasn't captured in the FAQ, but i still feel like a noob for not checking the FAQ first; doh!) By animation i meant changing frames (like an idle animation). Sounds like that's not in XNA i've heard excellent things about Unity ...

Since the topic changed, moving this from a different post [quote user="FortisVenaliter Productions"]XNA isn't a game engine. It's effectively a DirectX wrapper.[/quote] OK, i misunderstood what XNA was all about. i've used DirectX (in C++), XNA is certainly easier than that, but not something i'd use in ...

Bummer, no GUI controls at all? They come with Torque, Unity, OGRE, etc. so i assumed XNA had one. i assumed wrong. Any recommendations on where to find 3rd party libraries? UI interface is, in fact, a big area and using scrollbars to scroll through hundreds of shoes probably isn't the coolest interface. If i were an XNA pro with a big ...

i apparently started a lot later than other people here, maybe because i'm a liberal arts person. i started programming turbo pascal as a junior in college (19). i'm 37 now. This month i programmed in java, CLIPS, C# and C++. Previous months had TorqueScript, GML, x86 assembler, batch, csh, sed, awk, perl, php, COBOL, Delphi, lisp, scheme, ...

This is partially a technical, partially a design question. Imagine a 2D dress-up game where there's a character on the left and the clothes you can put them in on the right. Clothes are organized into groups - hats, shirts, pants, belts, etc. There is an arbitrary (users drop art in the appropriate folders which is loaded at runtime) but ...