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

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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.larsson@diversify.se

__mattias__

http://laserbrain.se

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