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The Story So Far...
I'm starting with MDX 1.1, the "managed" version of Direct X, albeit not the latest stuff. The reason I'm using this is that I don't need DirectX 10 features, and MDX 1.1 is probably fairly stable. Probably. As others have mentioned, though XNA is the new hotness.
- Use MDX 1.1? Well, not anymore. You can ignore this stuff...
- Use Irrlicht?
After looking at XNA Game Studio 2.0 (released December 14, 2007), it is pretty apparent that this is what I should go with.
- Use XNA, definitely!
- XNA Framework Notes
XNA Links
- Dave's GameDev Study Forum
- XNA Programming Guide
- XNA Framework Class Reference
- Shawn Hargrave's Blog ... insightful!
- A convenient FAQ that answers a lot of basic questions "how to do something"
Asset Creation
- I'm wondering if SoftImage ModTool will actually work for us.
Deploying XNA Games
This isn't your daddy's EXE file no more! C# and .NET use these things called "assemblies" and, uh, well...I have to figure out how this works.
Physics Links
- Box2D Flash
- Andre Michelle
- C# Port of Box2D
- Bullet is an open source 3D physics engine with XNA support
- 2D Farseer Physics for XNA... this looks like it is the easiest to use.