Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4

554 Pages·2011·10.149 MB·English

by  Chris G. Williams and George W. Clingerman

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PROFESSIONAL
WINDOWS® PHONE 7 GAME DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
CHAPTER 1 Getting to Know the Windows Phone 7 Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CHAPTER 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
CHAPTER 3 Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CHAPTER 4 Touch Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
CHAPTER 5 Give Me Your Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 6 The State of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
CHAPTER 7 Let the Music Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
CHAPTER 8 Putting It All Together: Drive & Dodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
CHAPTER 9 Whoa! The World Isn’t Flat After All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
CHAPTER 10 It’s Your Turn! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
CHAPTER 11 The World Outside Your Window(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
CHAPTER 12 Putting It All Together: Poker Dice with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
CHAPTER 13 Dude, Where’s My Car? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425
CHAPTER 14 Take a Picture; It’ll Last Longer! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
CHAPTER 15 Putting It All Together: Picture Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .455
CHAPTER 16 Where Do You Go from Here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513
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PROFESSIONAL
Windows® Phone 7 Game Development
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PROFESSIONAL
Windows® Phone 7 Game Development
CREATING GAMES USING XNA GAME STUDIO 4
Chris G. Williams
George W. Clingerman
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Professional Windows® Phone 7 Game Development
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
CHRIS G. WILLIAMS is a principal consultant for Magenic, delivering custom-built .NET
solutions to clients. He founded Reality Check Games as a studio for his various
XNA projects on Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7. In addition to creat-
ing games, Williams is a Microsoft MVP in XNA/DirectX (for six years running). He
is an active contributor to the XNA Indie Games community, and founded an XNA
Developers Group in Minneapolis, MN. He speaks regularly at user groups, code camps, and profes-
sional conferences country-wide, lecturing on XNA game development, Windows Phone 7, and other
topics. He has also authored articles for the magazines CODE and Flagship. You can follow him on
Twitter (@chrisgwilliams).
GEORGE W. CLINGERMAN is a business developer who works with .NET and SQL to
build WinForm and web software. He also develops games, has won a small game
development contest using Managed Direct X, and has released an Xbox Live Indie
Game designed for small children (sold worldwide). Clingerman runs an XNA com-
munity site, http://XNADevelopment.com, where he creates tutorials for beginning
game development, and he helps out in the offi cial Microsoft Creators Club forums. For this work,
Clingerman was awarded a Microsoft MVP award for XNA four times. You can reach him at the
Geekswithblogs blogging community, or follow him on Twitter (@clingermanw).
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ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
PIETER GERMISHUYS is a business applications developer by day and a game developer by night.
He is the co-founder of www.mdxinfo.com and www.xnainfo.com. He enjoys dabbling in ASP.NET
MVC and jQuery when not attempting to develop the next “big thing” in the game entertainment
world. He has a blog at www.pieterg.com, and frequents on http://stackoverfl ow.com/.
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