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Introduction To Windows Store Games
How to make a game using what you already know
Chris GardnerSenior Software EngineerT & W Operations, Inc.
About Me
However
What to do?
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Don’t Fight It
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Don’t Fight It – Go With It
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Some Stats
Windows Store Apps 80% C# / WinRT 14% WinJS 6% Native
Some Stats
Windows Store Apps 80% C# / WinRT 14% WinJS 6% Native
Source
Some Stats
Windows Store Apps 80% C# / WinRT 14% WinJS 6% Native
Source Undisclosed
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Apply What We Know
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Porting the Old XNA CodeWhat do we really need to make this work as before
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What we need
Player Controlled Sprites
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Computer / AI Controlled Sprites
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard Controller
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard Controller
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Event Driven (Button Press)
Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard Controller
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Event Driven (Button Press) Time Driven (Automatically Created)
Interactions
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard Controller
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Event Driven (Button Press) Time Driven (Automatically Created)
Interactions Collision Detection
What we need
Player Controlled Sprites Touch Mouse Keyboard Controller
Computer / AI Controlled Sprites Event Driven (Button Press) Time Driven (Automatically Created)
Interactions Collision Detection State ( Score and Lives )
Touting the Party LineKool Aid is Awesome
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Data Bound Objects
Do NOT do a Google Image search for “Binding”
Demo 1 ( through 9 )Let’s do this…
Demo 1 Postmortem
IT WORKS!
Demo 1 Postmortem
IT WORKS! Too many things on the UI Thread
Demo 1 Postmortem
IT WORKS! Too many things on the UI Thread
INotifyPropertyChanged must be called on UI
Taking a Few LibertiesLet’s bend the rules a little
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UI Injection
Premise Run everything you can in the
background When necessary, send small commands
to UI
Demo 2 (errrr, 10)Because, who doesn’t love threads calling threads…?
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Demo 2 Postmortem
Cleaned up UI Thread Added a LOT of complexity
Locks await / async calls
Think Like a Game DesignerWho needs rules, anyway?
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Recreate XNA!
Recreate XNA!
NOTE: This code is still in “BETA”
Recreate XNA!
NOTE: This code is still in “BETA”
By that, I mean the code runs so fast, the game is slightly unplayable…
Demo 3 (Or something)Factory Smoke NOT Included
Questions?Thank You
Chris [email protected]://www.tnwops.com
@freestylecoderhttp://blog.freestylecoding.comhttp://www.extra-life.org/participant/cgardner
