Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Designing games for Windows 8 http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/4a1b/0bcf145d-622d-4680-9a78-c777618a4a1b/2-106_220.jpg Channel 9 - Designing games for Windows 8 Discover how you can use Windows 8 to get players addicted to your game. Engage your players from the Windows 8 Start Screen with live tiles and notifications . Grow your community of players by sharing between games and other apps. Learn about modern gameplay interactions with new input options like touch, sensors, and controllers. Explore gameplay that scales, snaps, and pauses as it needs to, allowing multiple tasks to be performed at the same time. en Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:25 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:25 GMT Rev9 Re: Designing games for Windows 8 posted by DJERADI

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634871996036761987 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:13:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634871996036761987 DJERADI Re: Designing games for Windows 8 posted by Someone

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634872930238947692 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:10:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634872930238947692 Someone Re: Designing games for Windows 8 Is it really that difficult to keep a projector working?

posted by luzi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634873149990683985 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:16:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634873149990683985 luzi Re: Designing games for Windows 8 Just a warning to watchers, 15 minutes is spent fixing a broken projector and another 15 minutes is dedicated to fielding questions (most of which were very basic).

posted by babelshift

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634874102832435887 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:44:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634874102832435887 babelshift Re: Designing games for Windows 8 The technical difficulties in this session's recording will be fixed soon.  Sorry for the delay.

posted by shaihinitz

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634875587960739062 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:59:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634875587960739062 shaihinitz Re: Designing games for Windows 8 I was there and have spoken with a lot of people about XNA. XNA is officially dead on all MS platforms. They did promise some tools to help make DirectX development easier and they did suggest SharpDX a lot (and MonoGame a few times) as an alternative. I almost fought with a Microsoft DirectX guy on one occasion over the matter, but I can unfortunately confirm that Microsoft decided against keeping XNA as an option for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

posted by Karios

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634877243212858502 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:58:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634877243212858502 Karios Re: Designing games for Windows 8 @Karios:

Not entirely true. Windows Phone 8 SDK ships with XNA 4.0 as a supported project type (includes templates too). That's certainly not an indication of support beyond this release, but it at least allows for backwards compatibility (for now).

That said, yes, XNA is dead for the future. Shawn Hargreaves is on the Windows Phone team now and others from the XNA team have moved on or quit Microsoft entirely (like Nick Gravelyn). Such a good set of APIs gone for good is sad to see.

I highly suggest following the MonoGame project and any other future frameworks that use SharpDX.

posted by babelshift

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634879376969490033 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:14:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634879376969490033 babelshift Re: Designing games for Windows 8 posted by Nub

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634901692517448348 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:07:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/2-106#c634901692517448348 Nub