XNA, Managed DirectX and Game Programming

XNA Game State Menu System

For those of us who like the Game Stare Sample that you can Download from the Creators Site, RandomChaos has made some adjustments and developed his own. At the moment the source is not available but there is a cool video showing what the system can do.

Inspired by the Example on the Creators Club I decided to write my own so it would do the stuff I needed it to. As always the one on the Creators is great and a nice starting point.

This is written from scratch and instead of releasing the code I might just put it up as a binary for you to bolt into your projects, naturally you will be able to inherit from it and create the menus you want from it.

As the image I put up does not really show what is going on I have put up a short vid (here) to demonstrate some of the things it can do.

Features:

• Based on GameComponent so you can just add it to your game via Component.Add

• Ability to texture your fonts

• 2D shader effects on both the menu, fonts and cursor

• Menu cursor driven by the keyboard or 360 Controller

There are only a few effects at the moment but I plan to add more, still much to do, but once done I think it will be useful.

I had a quick look at the video and it looks good, keep up the work and I hope to see it in a releasable state soon.

Here is a Direct Link to the Post.