XNA UK User Group

I've seen lots of demos and frameworks and suchlike, but I've never seen a tutorial that really explains how to properly structure even a small game.

So does anyone know any good resources on how to tackle structuring a game well?

So I mean real detail on how to write your components and classes and make them available to other parts of the game.

Thanks. 

 Hi,

 Have a look at design patterns on wikipedia or just google it. The Singleton and Factories are two types of design patterns I can think of off the top of my head but even a small game needs lots of different design patterns to work in unison to achieve a working program. Also have a look at the MSDN help files for XNA and how the XNA design team went about it I learned a lot from doing this plus you get loads of xna experience :)

XNA app development: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203873.aspx#ID2EVAAC

XNA Game Component Development: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb199634.aspx

RSS of Shawn Hargreaves Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/rss.xml

Good luck.