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I have been interested in making games for a while now. I tried to make them, but ultimately failed. Then my friend recommended XNA Game Studio. So I downloaded it and searched for some tutorials.. However all I got was posts from novices such as myself and people who just posted a code with no explanation. All that did was made me realize that XNA is harder than I seemed. Any of you guys have some good suggestions for XNA tutorials, e-books, or any other helpful reference pertaining to XNA?
Go over to the Graphics and Game Development section and look for Jacob Roman. He tends to hang out mostly there (and in chit-chat). He was working on an XNA tutorial, himself, though I don't know what state it is in. However, I would bet that he either has something useful for you, or knows what would work best.
I found a great book on amazon(Just search xna in amazon), and there is one in C#(obviously) and one in Vb.net. Better yet it was written within the year. Here is the link to the C# one, for some reason I can't find the vb.net one...
Using XNA to make games, which would be more efficient? VB.NET or C#?
Well right now you can't use vb.net with xna to make xbox360 games. With c# you can. You will also find ALOT more documentation(books, ebooks, youtube videos, ect.) on XNA with c#. As for effeciency, I suppose it depends on which language you're most comfortable with. But like I stated above it would be easier to learn XNA in c#. Something I'm doing currently is learning C# with XNA, just to familiarize myself with XNA. Eventually I want to phase the C# out of my xna coding and use strictly vb with xna.
I know for a fact that I am never going to make XBOX360 games, so that's not a problem. But the lack of documentation is, so I am going to try out C# first and see if I am comfortable with it.
If you all ready have a basic understanding of vb, more specifically the .net framework you shouldn't have any problem learning c# to write xna. Also, something that you may or may not know is that there is a c# forum on vbforums. You can find it here, or scroll down to .net
I see, Ill check out the C# forum