First Step VB.NET

This tutorial guides you through the process of really getting started with the SwinGame SDK. In this tutorial you will learn to open a window, draw images, draw sprites and move, play sounds, and have some interactivity within your game. At the end of the tutorial you should be much more comfortable using the SwinGame SDK and ready to start working on your own game.

OK so at this stage you have:
 * Gone through Getting Started
 * Chosen Visual Basic .NET as your programming language
 * Downloaded Visual Basic.NET SDK
 * Gone through the instuctions and loaded the SDK

Now it is time for your first program in Swingame: "Hello World".

Hello World
Follow these steps to get a "Hello World" program working with SwinGame.
 * 1) Open Visual Studio, and click File > New > Project.
 * 2) Select the Visual Basic/Basic Language and Click the SwinGame VB.NET Project Template. Click OK.
 * 3) Select File - Save.  Enter "FirstProgram" as the file name, and choose the location it is to be saved and click OK.
 * 4) In the Solution Explorer on the right hand side of the screen (see picture below) double click on "GameLogic". You should be presented with the following code:



The purpose of this code is to create a starting point for your project. If you press the "Start Debugging" button at the top of the screen (looks like a green arrow, F5 works too) you will see what it does. After you have had a look close the window.

You can basically read what it is doing

See if you can find the parts of the code that are doing the following things:
 * Loading all the resources you need for the game
 * Opening up a blank screen 800 pixels wide (x axis) by 600 tall (y axis) - see picture below
 * Starting a Loop, inside which it does:
 * Draws 3 filled rectangles setting their sizes and different colours width height and position
 * Putting the game's "Frame rate" up on the screen in the top right hand corner
 * Writing the words "Hello World" 3 times in different colours below the rectangles
 * Writing the words "Hello World" once at the top in large letters
 * Telling the loop to stop when someone closes the window



Now you do this...
To help your understanding of what is going on in this code do the following:
 * Change the big "Hello World" to your name
 * Move the Red Rectangle so it is in the bottom right hand corner
 * Make the Red Rectangle twice as big

And that is it you have completed your "Hello World" next we look at adding an image.