Article: Vacant Skies – Action RPG Tutorial Series
by Aaron T Foley
Welcome to the Vacant Skies – Action RPG Tutorial Series. My name is Aaron Foley and I’ll be your host throughout this series. The primary purpose of the series is to document a route on how to make a complete action RPG using XNA and various resources throughout the internet. There are so many amazing resources out there now for XNA that it is pointless to keep reinventing the wheel when writing a game. So I’m going to collect various tutorials, code, and libraries and utilize them all to create a game. So let’s get this show on the road.
Building a 2D RPG
edg3 from RealDev started a series about Building a 2D RPG using XNA, and currently has the first two parts on his site.
They both deal with building the basic skeleton of the game, starting with planning and gamestate management and continuing with keyboard and mouse input.
If your interested in other RPG-related tutorials and content for XNA, here's some:
- Nick "Not an MVP Anymore" Gravelyn's Tile Engine Series
- Jamie McMahon series of 44 RPG Tutorials
- The Role Playing Game Starter Kit on XNA Creator's Club
- Jim "Evil MVP" Perry's book RPG Programming with XNA Game Studio 3.0