Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Build your first Metro style game http://ch9files.blob.core.windows.net/build/2011/thumbs/750.jpg Channel 9 - Build your first Metro style game Games are undoubtedly one of the most popular style of apps with users today and one of the largest money makers as well! If you have ever thought of writing a game, this session is for you! Windows 8 offers an end-to-end platform for developing games. Come to this session to learn how Windows 8 enables you to build engaging, profitable, connected games that can play on a myriad of form factors. en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:31 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:31 GMT Rev9 Re: Build your first Metro style game
I use XNA to build games for WP7 and Win7 and i could extend that to XBox. What about Win8 (Metro apps)?

Any plans there that you can share?

Thanks.

posted by dee

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-750T#c634518840739676811 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:21:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-750T#c634518840739676811 dee Re: Build your first Metro style game Chas did a great job in this session covering the APIs that are available that will help to develop DirextX based Metro Style Games.  He covers APIs such as DirectWrite, Direct2D/3D, XAudio2, Media Foundation and best practices for specific phases of the appication life-cycle.  Not a lot of code samples but I still found this to be a good presentation that helped me to become familiar with the fundamentals of this new release.  There is a Game Dev Cheat Sheet at the end of the presentation that contains a listing of //build/ sessions for game dev if you are interested as well.  Thanks Chas for this presentation!

posted by FrankieC

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-750T#c634523036312929025 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:53:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-750T#c634523036312929025 FrankieC