Windows Phone 8: Native C/C++ Game Development (Channel 9)

Windows Phone 8: Native C/C++ Game Development

Date: October 30, 2012 from 2:15PM to 3:15PM

Day 1

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Speakers: Sam George, Ross Odwyer

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You asked for it, and we are in the business of empowering our developers! Now you can build games leveraging the same C/C++ source you leverage to deliver games on other platforms. This session will introduce you to the implementation of native C/C++ programming for building Windows Phone games.

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Ion Todirel buuu

Oct 31, 2012 at 8:29 AM

what about things like VirtualAlloc?
Steve Williams

Oct 31, 2012 at 7:41 PM

The talk mentions SharpDX as a C++ library. It is a C# managed code library. The only C++ it uses on Windows Phone 8 is a small WinRT component to make up for the missing LoadLibrary call, which will be fixed in a later update to Windows Phone.
babelshift

Nov 01, 2012 at 8:19 PM

I disliked the 15 minutes spent advertising for Havok. Cool technology, but I felt it should not be in this presentation.
babelshift

Nov 01, 2012 at 8:34 PM

@Ion Todirel: According to this article, LocalAlloc, GlobalAlloc, and VirtualAlloc are not available for Windows Store apps, which I assume extends to Windows Phone 8 as well.
elybob

Nov 03, 2012 at 6:48 PM

Where can we get the ported shader sample (at 32:00)?
Halo

Nov 03, 2012 at 10:09 PM

Check out the opensource libs on Windows Phone 8. http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2012/10/build-today-with-open-source-frameworks-on-windows-phone-8/
Denzil

Nov 08, 2012 at 12:42 PM

I am very happy to see a convergence with other devices / targets as it is getting pretty crazy to keep up with all the different platforms nowadays.
Keep it coming!
Saad Khan

Nov 11, 2012 at 6:00 AM

When actually middleware platforms like Unity etc can be used when developing games? I see either whole game development on Unity or nothing on that.
Its not clear to me. Please let me know on this?
Vaccano

Nov 24, 2012 at 8:14 PM

This video mentions 2d development stuff. It would be nice to see a link added for that (I could not find it).
Paul Onah

Apr 08, 2013 at 9:29 AM

It nice
JOSHUA IYOAYE

Apr 15, 2013 at 11:38 AM

it ok
Den

Apr 23, 2013 at 1:19 PM

We need XNA 5.0 or FULL financial support of MonoGame by Microsoft.
The only advantage of C++ is probably performance. Nobody complained about that using XNA 4.0.
Arun Dua

Apr 24, 2013 at 10:21 AM

Hi ,
I am using VS 2010 express for windows phone ,but didnt have manifest designer to edit the manifest file when I double clicked it . I tried re-installing it twice but it didnt work out . Can somebody suggest me whats the problem ?? or is there any way out to check the capabilities of manifest file without using manifest designer ??

Regards ,
Arun
Hacker Undisclosed

Apr 30, 2013 at 8:28 AM

@Arun Dua locate the manifest file in your project folder and open it with notepad++