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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Saving data across same game in multiple devices [closed]
Is there any library or something that works like iCloud but for different operating systems (Android, IOS, Windows Phone) that allow me to save game data to cloud and open the game data from another ...
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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 ...
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Drawing an animation over an already drawn screen
I am working on a XNA WP7 card game whose basic prototype is complete. In game screen, 6 cards are displayed at a time (3 for each of the two players say 1,2 and 3).
If player A attacks one of player ...
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windows phone 7 apps marketplace paid to free
I have question about paid and free + ad-based apps/games in wp7 marketplace, can I publish my app as paid version initially and later(after a month or so) can i publish the same app/game as free + ad ...
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Can I sell Windows Phone 7 games on the marketplace from India?
I am a developer from India working on a game in WP7. I need to know, can I sell my game in Windows phone apps marketplace or is it like Android market where only free/ad-based is allowed?
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Draw depth works on WP7 emulator but not device
I am making a game on a WP7 device using C# and XNA. I have a system where I always want the object the user is touching to be brought to the top, so every time it is touched I add float.Epsilon to ...
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Is it possible to update the livetile in XNA WP7 game?
( I'm not sure if this question belongs here, but since it is related to game development and I have no idea where else I should post this, I will post this here )
As the title says, what I am ...
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Loss of texture detail in XNA (Banding 16 bit issue)
I'm loading in a background texture for my game, it's not vert detailed, it's just there too add some variance. The problem is that there looks like a large reduction in detail. I've included images ...
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Random position of object in foreach loop
i need help with some "scary" thing.
I'm creating some objects in foreach loop. Each object has implemented in Update function random change of position.
But while i'm creating this objects in foreach ...
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What is the “pricing standard” on Windows Phone?
On iOS, I find it is more usual to see light versions of a game for free (with ads and less features) and a full version for a cost and all the features.
On Android, I see more games that have both a ...
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SLXNA MediaPlayer short break at start
I already solved the Problem with the MediaPlayer (Dispacher) but every time when the player starts the title there is a short break(image is still and now sound). How can I make the image still go ...
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Position sprite at center of screen
I am trying to get a sprite to position itself at the center of the screen but nothing seems to be working for me.
I'm trying
Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport;
logoPosition = new ...
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Dynamically Discovering Game Content
I am trying to determine the best way to dynamically discover new levels in my Windows Phone game. This is necessary because I will be selling some levels separately to those included with the initial ...
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Farseer physics not working
I have just started to port a load of projects from FPE2.x to FPE 3.3.1 and i am having some problems with all my physics.
This is a sample of what i am doing which demonstrates my problem
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How many update and draw calls can a windows phone suppport
I'm making a Windows Phone game (XNA 4.0) which requires a lot of activity on the screen. It's working well for now. But what I am concerned about is that it uses a lot of sprites and many of them as ...
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Windows Phone Performance Analysis makes game run faster. Possible reasons?
A XNA game I was making was running slowly on my WP7 device. However when I started it in Windows Phone Performance Analysis to find the bottleneck, the game ran smoothly on the same device.
I ...
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c# xna move Image using two Vectors?
initially image placed (0,0)th position and where ever i touch that is end position.
Now i got Start Position(0,0) and End Position(200,200).
i want to move start to end vector using angle.
If ...
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Publishing a game — any way to target both WP7 and Win8 Store?
I'm at a dilemma which seems should soon become an important issue for a lot of developers.
If I build a game in XNA, I won't be able to publish it on the Windows 8 Store, as it would be a classic ...
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Make Sprite Jump Upon a Platform
I have been struggling to make a game like Doodle Jump where the sprite jumps on a platform. So how do you make a sprite jump upon platforms in XNA? Th platforms are represented by a list of positions ...
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Why is my primitive xna square not drawn/shown?
I have made this class to draw a rectangle, but I cant get it to be drawn, I have no issues displaying a 3d model created in 3dmax, but shown these primitives seems much harder
I use this to create ...
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Game maps with “counties” that are split along lines that aren't necessarily straight
I want to create a game environment that supports a 2D map. This is a really basic map, but must be split along lines that are not necessarily straight. So imagine a country with county boundaries. ...
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Drawing a texture line between two vectors in XNA WP7
I want to create a simple graph maker in WP7.
The goal is to draw a texture line between two vectors what the user defines with touch. I already made the rotation, and it is working, but not ...
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XNA Sprite Flash Effect
I'm looking for a way to render every non-transparent pixel in a sprite solid white (to 'flash' the sprite white when the player takes damage etc). This is on Windows Phone 7.
I was using a very ...
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XNA Sprites Not Drawing Correctly
I have a problem through out my current code where certain Texture2D's are not drawing correctly over each other.
For example, at the start I have sprite font being drawn over a background image and ...
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Cinematic in 2D games
I am searching for a way to create and integrate cinematic in a simple 2D game with XNA for Windows Phone.
I don't know if the best way is to create an animation with sprite and commonly process to ...
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displaying image on modelmesh with transparency
i have a modelmesh that has a image on it. When i draw the modelmesh i get the image but i also get a black bacground. The image is png and transparent and is added in 3ds max(i don't give it ...
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How do I load Gleed 2D levels in WP7 XNA game?
I've been trying so long to use this modified version of GLEED2D that includes WP7 support,
I'm stuck into loading the level into my game, now my Game1.cs class has the following:
protected ...
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Making a level editor for my game
I am doing a 2D sprite based game in XNA for WP7, The game logic is simple, you start at some point, you want to avoid obstacles and reach a certain goal.
obviously I need to make many levels for the ...
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How can I draw a model with a color on WP7?
How can I draw a model with a color (and still be aware of the lighting)?
This is really straight forward when you can use shaders, but on Windows Phone you can't.
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No response to touch from XNA page after navigated from Silverlight page
I am creating XNA/Silverlight game in Windows Phone Mango. Testing with the emulator in both the Release and Debug mode.
From the main page, I call a settings page written in Silverlight. Then I back ...
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Content.Load() throws ContentLoadException when loading a texture in SL XNA
I've developed a while back in XNA but I'm a bit rusty. I've started working on SL XNA but have a problem I can't explain while trying to load content (model -fbx- or texture).
I place the image ...
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How to record gameplay on WP7?
I need to record my wp7 game gameplay like on Hot Apps from channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Minesweeper-Cheezia-Interior-Design-Talking-Alien-Zombie-Squish.
My current ...
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Simple WP7 pong game with real time multiplayer using sockets
I'm making a pong clone for Windows Phone 7 and I'd love to add a multiplayer option. I've been trying to use this Ricky Tan's tutorial:
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Using orientation to calculate position on Windows Phone 7
I'm using the motion API and I'm trying to figure out a control scheme for the game I'm currently developing.
What I'm trying to achive is for a orienation of the device to correlate directly to a ...
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2D physics engine for WP7?
I'm looking for a 2D physics engine for Windows Phone 7.
Is there a port of something existing for use?
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XNA WP7 Texture memory and ContentManager
I'm trying to get my WP7 XNA game's memory under control and under the 90MB limit for submission. One target I identified was UI textures, especially fullscreen ones, that would never get unloaded.
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