xna and silverlight

XNA and SilverlightAaron Stanley King

XNA and Silverlight

Free game development toolkit using .NET, C#

Extends Visual Studio 2010 Including the free C#

Express Edition Version 4.0

Cross Platform Input API Enhanced Audio and Video Windows Phone 7

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Common Base Classes

Windows Phone 7

Silverlight XNA

Fundementals

Initialize LoadContent Update

DrawUnloadContent

The Game Loop

while (IsRunning) {

Update(); Draw();

}

The Content Pipeline

Images, fonts, wav

files, models

Importer

ProcessorCompiled Output

ScreenManager

screenManager = new ScreenManager(this);

Components.Add(screenManager);

void OptionsMenuEntrySelected(object sender, PlayerIndexEventArgs e) {

ScreenManager.AddScreen(new OptionsMenuScreen(), e.PlayerIndex); }

Architectural Design (decide early if you want more than one ScreenManager)

GameScreen classes are loaded into a ScreenManager ( pretty! ) Simple transitions can be added (Bing for more) GameComponent is very useful as a base class for most parts of

your game

MSFT.XNA.FW.INPUT

GamePad Buttons ButtonState GamePadDeadZone GamePadType

Keyboard Keys KeyState

Mouse Buttons Position

MSFT.XNA.FW.INPUT.TOUCH

TouchPanel GestureType TouchLocationState

Input API

MSFT.DEVICES.SENSORS Accelerometer

SensorState

_soundEffect = Content.Load<SoundEffect>("ShotEffect");

var pan = (float)((_rnd.NextDouble() - 0.5) * 2.0);var pitch = (float)((_rnd.NextDouble() - 0.5) * 2.0); var volume = (float)((_rnd.NextDouble() / 2.0) + 0.5);

_soundEffect.Play(volume, pitch, pan);

Audio

Sorry, no transforms or storyboards Just Draw ( most powerful method in the XNA universe )

public void Draw ( Texture2D texture, Vector2 position, Nullable<Rectangle> sourceRectangle, Color color, float rotation, Vector2 origin, float scale, SpriteEffects effects, float layerDepth

)

Animations

SilverArcade.SilverSprite.dll SilverArcade.SilverSprite.Core.dll

A little XAML <UserControl x:Class="SilverSprite.Page"

xmlns="http://schem...resentation" xmlns:x="http://schema...xaml" Width="400" Height="300" xmlns:game="clr-namespace:Game"> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Canvas> <game:Game1 x:Name="game"/> </Canvas> </Grid> </UserControl>

Add content to your silverlight app (/Content )

Silversprite

Demo

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Xbox LIVE Indie Games

Publish your games to Windows Phone Marketplace

Profit!! 70%/30% baseline split Free apps are ok Charge $.99 to $499 ( no points )

225 MB limit You retain all rights and IP You can’t charge for updates. It’s not in the

Microsoft marketing strategy.

Windows Phone Marketplace

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Develop with XNA

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Presence Xbox LIVE Multiplayer C++ and Native

DirectX Develop with XNA

Studio

Why not go Pro!

XNA Futures

Kinect for Windows SDK ( later this summer )

MSFT.XNA.FW.Input.You

Aaron Stanley King

Twitter -> @trendoid Gamertag -> HeraldStudios Email -> aaron@woundvision.com

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Resources

App Hub Silverlight Show XNA 3.1 to 4.0 Cheat Sheet Silversprite Silver Arcade MonoXNA