What is the best way to create levels using xml documents, and set the tags so the game engine knows what they're for? I've seen the RPG Mini Game and I just think its Level Editor is set up way to complicated. So can anyone help me?

I need to get my sprites Height and Width. Anyone know how I can achieve this?

I need to scale the platformer sample, and when I scale it for SDTVs it only displays the upper left corner and I can’t even see the ground tiles. How should I change my code so everything squeezes onto the screen? Also I’m using the scale screen sample from MSDN’s website

where does every one else get their reference dll

I understand how to use it and everything however the SpriteSheetRuntime .dll I am supposed to be using, and when I try to run the sample I get the error that it cannot find the .dll also. It seems to be missing from my project even though I have not modified the project at all, I've also tried redownloading it aswell. VS 2009 Express did ...

I was just wanting to know how can i create cust truetype fonts and what tools will i need? Thanks in advance

In my game I would like to stop certain update methods when a event is completed, such as when the game is paused. now how would I in an if statement complete this process? my rough code idea: // Something like:   if (paused == true)   ...

[quote user="Joe"]So what exactly did you do to fix it?  Did you use a reset method, or did you do something completely different?[/quote]I had to make the values change from true or false when the player unpaused the game. Stupid mistake on my part.

Nevermind, I solved it on my own.

[quote user="Joe"]couldn't you just add a resetAnimation to your animations list, and all that 'animation' does is display the normal sprite whenever you're not moving?[/quote] could you explan a little more?