Hi, i’m a C# develeoper and now i’m learning about game creation, i installed xenko and have a lot of troubles tryng to figure out things, (i want to start developing on 2d, but all the information from xenko is for 3d).
i see that some people migrate from unity to xenko, and i’m wondering if i can start learning with all the videos that are out there for unity and apply that knoledge to Xenko. is it a good approach?
Your biggest hurdle learning game development with Xenko will be is it’s current lack of documentation. Though the have started on working on rectifying that recently. They have updated the Getting Started section. If you have not already familiarized yourself with that it is a good starting point on the basics of using Game Studio and how to do some things in Xenko. Game Studio has a number of samples included. A couple cover some aspects of 2D. You should have a look at the Simple Sprite, Sprite Entity and JumpyJet samples. Apart from that there has been little to no tutorials etc. done by people in the game development community. At least not that I can find. So your best bet is to learn game dev basics from other engines etc. like Unity as you suggested.
Watching Unity tutorials may provided you with a good basis of techniques. A lot of this knowledge would be transferable. At the very least it would give you some general game dev knowledge that will make it easier to pick up Xenko.
If you have questions you can ask them on the Q&A Site. Some other good general game dev sites are: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ and http://www.gamedev.net/.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
Cheers,
dfkeenan