so you have the greatest idea for the next big hit windows phone game? mattias larsson @__mattias__...
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So you have the greatest idea for the Next Big HitWindows Phone Game?
Mattias Larsson @__mattias__June 12, 2012
the idea
http://videogamena.me/• Combat Ghost Paratroopers• Aquatic Sandwich Journey• Save Yourself from the Yak
Baseball• Retro Jetpack Farmer• Elmo's Ninja of Doom• American Samurai of Death• Infinite Dodgeball Empire
step two
tools
specs
Anything from480 x 800
down to240 x 240
(scales up to fullscreen)
resolutions
800 x 480slow – beautiful
600 x 360 (56%)quicker – quite lovely
400 x 240 (25%)lightning fast – pixely
resolutions
512 MB or 256 MB
memory
Per app ~90 MB
the anatomy
two projects
platform
change platform
phone vs PC vs Xbox
the lifecycle
Initialize()
LoadContent()
Update()
Draw()
OnActivated()
Game()
Update()
Draw()
OnDeactivated()
OnExiting()
~Game()
Update()
Draw()
OnDeactivated()
OnActivated()
. . .
Hm…This onelooks
familiar…
demo
font rendering
XNA
butt-ugly!
Nuclex Framework
back in business!
graphics
vs
math
MathHelper
• Lerp()• SmoothStep()• Clamp()
math
Multiplication vs Division
faster slower
b=a*0.5f; b=a/2f;vs
trial mode
be ready
time
dow
nlo
ad
s
the future of xna
Windows 8 (Metro)Windows Phone 8Xbox (XBLIG)Windows Classic(XP, Vista, Win7, Win8 desktop mode)
XNA is not an option XNA is still the best option XNA is still the best option XNA is one of the options
queries?
Mattias Larsson
__mattias__
http://laserbrain.se
Badgers Rock (Windows Phone Marketplace)