Sprite Sheets in Xna: The Basics

When designing 2D games, many of has have the annoying habit of being born out of the Flash age. We want to be able to have a drawing of something and animate, just like we did in Flash! However, this is obviously not possible in XNA since XNA is not a enriched content creation platform but instead a library for the creation of games. There is, however, an alternative that we might find more familiar, and these are Sprite Sheets.