Yay!

Pong is done (and only in a couple of hours)! Next project: Tetris-clone!

It's actually a relief to have finished a project, even one as small as this. Gives me the confidence to tackle something larger.

First steps

I've gotten tired of falling over because I've tried to run before I can crawl. All my high-falutin' ideas have been put on the backburner while I return to the basics. And you can't get more basic than Pong.

So far, after around an hour's work in Visual C# and Paint, I've got a ball bouncing around a playing field, with a bat the player can control and a bat the computer controls.

XNA Tutorials

Stumbled across a terrific series of tutorials on XNA, written by Riemer Grootjans (author of XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes, a book that's on my to-get list). Thoroughly recommend this series to anyone looking to get a handle on XNA, C# and HLSL.