Windows Phone 7 is a phone operating system built by Microsoft to replace Windows Mobile. Key features include, Metro Design, access to XBOX Live, Office, Skydrive. Applications written for Windows Phone 7 are built with Silverlight or XNA Game Studio.
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Cocos2d-xna memory management for WP8
I recently upgraded to VS2012 and try my in dev game out on the new WP8 emulators but was dismayed to find out the emulator now crashes and throws an out of memory exception during my sprite loading ...
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cocos2d-xna CCScale9Sprite usage
I'm trying to get a CCControlButton to render on my game. Using a basic CCScale9Sprite as the button's background works using the following:
var myScale9Sprite = ...
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Windows Phone XNA guarding storage data
For a typical windows phone game where storage files could contain high scores or in-game currency data, how does one go about protecting these files from user tampering?
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What's a simple way of sending game data between phones?
Using windows phones I need to send small amounts of data between phones in a turn based game. It's only a few bytes of data and does not need to be real time, something like in wordfeud or similar. ...
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CPU Usage on the UI thread Warning - XNA WP7.1
When I run the Store Test Kit's profiler against my game, I get a warning that says something along the likes of "Very high CPU usage on the UI thread for operations other than frame drawing."
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XNA project won't target .NET 4.0
I am trying to reference the System.Threading.Task assembly. If I am not mistaken, it should be part of mscorlib. But no matter what I do, my project always defaults to the .net 2.0 runtime. Even if I ...
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Mobile game textures sizes
I am developing a Windows Phone 7 game using XNA 4.0 which I plan to later port to iOS and android using Monotouch and Monodroid. My question is how to determine what texture size should I include? ...
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Is it wise to dev games only with XNA GS? [closed]
I was searching the web all day for a clear answer, but I didn't get any.
I heard that the Unity-Engine is about to come for Windows Phone 8, but I didn't see any release.
Anyway,
is it wise to ...
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How do I achieve one touch one shot for WP7 game?
I want to be able to have a sprite shoot in a game for WP7.
What I have at the moment is that as long as the shoot button is held down the sprite constantly shoots.
How do I sort it that only one ...
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Drawing with SpriteBatch and GraphicsDevice.DrawPrimitives
I've faced with a problem when i tried to draw 2d game with SpriteBatch and GraphicsDevice.DrawUserPrimitives. I suppose that what is drawing with SpriteBatch has higher priority, because i can not ...
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XNA windows phone release black textures
i just made a 3d game in XNA for windows phone 7. I build it in release mode on visual studio 2010 and suddenly when I run game there is no textures on models - 2 models are black and one is ...
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Black bars on 720p emulator?
I'm making a game for Windows Phone 8 using XNA 4.0 in Visual Studio express 2012. I'm trying to add a background image to the game with a size of 1366x768 (as i believe WP8 only supports up to 720p). ...
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Is opengl ES a necessity for developping mobile games [closed]
I learned some OpenGL ES and some shader coding. But is it really a necessity for developing Android, iOS and windows phone games? Windows phone I'm 99% sure that it is not even supported but have not ...
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How to sync the actions in a mutiplayer game?
I connect the clients with UDP (its a peer to peer connection on a multicast network) and the clients are sending their positions in every frame (in WP7 it means the default 30 FPS) to each other. ...
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XNA Per-Polygon Collision Check
I'm working on a project in XNA for WP7 with a low-poly environment, my problem is I need to setup a working per-polygon collision check between 2 or more 3d meshes.
I've checked tons of tutorials ...
