How to make a object moving - How to make game with VB.NET

Question

How to make a object moving on the screen- How to make game with VB.NET
- In 2d game, ex i see a mario charator, which is object ( Label, image v.v.v)
- Is there a physical engine for vb.net
Sorry, bad english

Answer 1

Hi,

look at XNA for .NET game developing

XNA Developer Center

If you don't want to use this or other framework, you've to write a lot of code, need mathematic background etc.

Answer 2

You should look into XNA, although most examples are done in C#.

Start off by looking at a few tutorials and then try making a simple game for yourself (do not start off with Mario etc as this is too complex for beginners. Think more along the lines of Pong).

Get yourself a good book, for example http://www.amazon.com/Learning-XNA-3-0-Game-Development/dp/0596521952

Also check out SlimDX, an open source alternative for building DirectX apps in .Net. DirectX is a set of Microsft APIs for dealing with Game Development

Answer 3

The basic premise is that you have a timer running and on each tick of the timer, you determine how much your objects should move then refresh the screen. This is going to be a relatively fast timer (faster than .5 seconds, anyway) and will determine how smooth your animations are.

There are probably engines in VB.Net somewhere, but you really don't need to worry about what they're written in. They're likely to be distributed as a library and you can mix and match the languages as much as you want, as long as the projects are separate.

As others have mentioned, though, you should look at Microsoft's XNA framework. Most of the examples are written in C#, but this guy has tutorials about how to do VB.Net with XNA. His site is currently over its bandwidth limit, so here's a google cache version (hit ctrl+a to see the text as his font is a light blue and the cache is making the background white)