In part one of the mini game article series, I am going to show you how to create a very simple Pong game from scratch. The tools you will need include Photoshop (or any other painting program such as Paint.NET or even MSPaint), Visual C# 2005 Express, and of course the Xna framework.

First we need to create our project, to give us a home base for all of our work. Go ahead and fire up C# Express and create an empty windows project. I am going to call mine MGSPong for lack of any imagination or any better title. Once the project has been created, add a folder called “Content” and then another underneath that called “Textures.” This is where we will store out art, no matter how bad it may be!

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