Can't afford the time or money to go to school to learn Video Games and XNA? Well the Georgia Institute of Technology has put up one of their Game Development lecture classes for anyone to watch. Best of all its mostly (? I've not watched them all) using XNA for the code sample.

MPG 2008

1. Introduction
2. History of 2d
3. History of 3d
4. 3d rendering (part 1)
5. 3d rendering (part 2)
6. 3d Rendering (part 3) - sorry video missing see slides
7. 3d rendering (part 4)
8. 3d rendering (part 5)
9. 3d rendering (part 6)
10. 3d rendering (part 7)
11. Intro to XNA Game Studio
12. Game loops and XNA Content Pipeline
13. Drawing Models and primitives with BasicEffect
14. Guest speaker no video - see slides
15. Walkthrough of an XNA 2d Game
16. Coming soon
17. Coming soon

Lecture slides and course details and more background information can be found on the class web site