• [00:29] TechEd NA 2013 is on Channel 9
• [01:05] TechEd Europe 2013
• [01:45] Visual Studio 2013 Announcement (Brian Harry),Team Foundation Service Updates for TechEd 2013, Windows Azure: Announcing Major Improvements for Dev/Test in the Cloud (ScottGu), Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps (Soma)
• [03:35] Modern Application Lifecycle Management TechEd Session (Brian Harry, Brian Keller)
• [04:21] VS 2013 round tripping (Brian Harry)
• [04:59] Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development (Scott Guthrie)
• [06:32] CodePlex learns to talk to other services! [Rick Marron]
• [08:25] Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.6, Coding4Fun Toolkit: Introducing LockScreenPreview, Coding4Fun Toolkit: Introducing SuperImage (Clint Rutkas, Scott Lovegrove)
• [09:49] Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre (Oren Freiberg)
• [10:48] Tutorial series: learning how to write a 3D soft engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (David Rousset)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[12:18] Flexible Source Control with Team Foundation Service and Git (Martin Woodward)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[13:44] Brain-controlled aircraft Students control a helicopter in flight using only brain waves (Richard Boyhan)

Windows 8 Platformer Game Starter Kit

Platformer Game Starter Kit(includes 2 HTML5-based examples)

Don't start from scratch. Our Platformer Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 will get you going with full code & free game art.

How

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Feel free to take the examples, mix them up and build your own great game for the Windows Store following these steps:

1. Download your free Visual Studio for Windows 8 for all the tools you will need.
2. Download the Platformer Game Starter Kit.
3. Mix it up and build your own epic game.
4. Open a Windows Store Developer Account.
5. Let us know about it and we can even give you free advice on making it great and help pass store certification.
6. Publish it to the Windows Store.

We know everyone is not a game artist, so we have provided you with some free game art and other places you can find royalty-free art for your game.

Ludus Game Starter Kit

An HTML5 Platformer Game Starter Kit for Windows8 Store

by Christer (McFunkypants) Kaitila http://mcfunkypants.com

Source: https://github.com/mcfunkypants/ludus

Demos: http://www.mcfunkypants.com/ludus

Welcome to Ludus, brave adventurer!

Ludus is a dirt-simple game engine that uses html5 canvas. It was designed specifically for mario/sonic style platformer games but could be used for any genre with minimal changes. It boasts great performance, and requires only free tools.

The word Ludus means PLAY/GAME/TRAINING in latin. The Ludus engine is designed to be a great way to learn to make games.

Sure, there are bigger and more complex game engines.

This one is designed to be easy to play around with.

Why? It was created to run real-world games that have a beginning, middle, and end. It was optimized to run on less powerful systems and touch-screen tablets. It is simple, but goes beyond the level of a "tech demo" to encapsulate all the required functionality you might need to make a polished game, such as GUI and sound.

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IT'S POSSIBLE TO MAKE A GAME USING LUDUS IN A WEEKEND.

You could make your own game just by changing the artwork: it is possible to make a new game without ever touching a line of code. All you would need to do is modify the .png and .mp3 art assets as well as the level#.js level data files.

The best tool to create in-game worlds is TILED (http://www.mapeditor.org) which exports data in .json format.

Check out the example .tmx source files and see if you can make your own game! Once you've made a level, export as .json and then run the _buildlevels.bat file to convert JSON to JSONP data to a new level#.js file.

The one important thing to remember is that each layer is important. The order matters. The bottom-most layer is for regular world tiles that the player will collide with. The rest are for pickups, bouncy platforms, dangerous spikes, and so on.

Additionally, you should modify the game settings in the MAP MENU -> MAP PROPERTIES dialog. Gravity, speed and the player's starting position are all stored there.

HACKING THE SOURCE CODE

The only source code file you will want to modify, if you choose to start coding, is ludus.js. Inside, you'll notice all sorts of variables at the top which you can modify to your heart's content. Note that some of these variables are overwritten by whatever is defined inside the level data.

With regard to the structure of the code, the most important thing to know is that the game is controlled by STATE objects.

Each state (title screen, in-game, and between level transitions) is a class object that has a .setup(), .update() and .draw() function. You could add new states for things like boss battles, inventory screens or a high score table.

See these class constructors: function TitleScreenState() function LevelTransitionScreenState() function PlayState()

HAVE FUN!

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Let's take a peek at the two included example games (In Visual Studio of course!)...

Both games ran for me the first time with no issues and were fun (in a platformer kind of way). Sure there's only 3 levels, but hey, if there was too much done it would take all the coding fun away!

So either start from scratch or copy off of these, this kit and the provided free artwork, framework and code will have you building your next great Windows 8 game...

Jeff Burtoft,  an HTML5 technical evangelist with Microsoft, joins us this week to talk about the flexibility and cross-platform power of HTML5 in the context of Windows Phone. The in-depth example that we cover in the video is a project called YetiBowl, and standards compliant HTML5 game that runs flawlessly on the web, as a Windows 8 app and as a Windows Phone 8 app.

Make sure you check out Jeff's 4 part series on creating the HTML5 Yeti game you see in this episode.

Yeti Bowl Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

What makes all this possible is Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8. IE10 for the phone and the PC are built on the same engine and use the same renderer which means that what you see on your desktop (or tablet) is what you'll see on your phone. Additionally, the web browser control in Windows Phone apps is a full instance of IE10, with the same speed and power as the native phone browser.

There are lots of great libraries and products that make developing for Windows Phone 8 in HTML5 a blast.

• PhoneGap - PhoneGap is for building cross-platform apps using HTML5. They support Windows Phone 8 with a great Visual Studio template to get started in no time. And don't miss our PhoneGap porting challenge with great opportunities prizes available for PhoneGap developers.  
• Atari Arcade - Great HTML5 games that re-imagine the some of the classic Atari games. Get the source code and get coding!
• Internet Explorer Test Drive - great examples of what is possible using IE 10.
• CreateJS - A great library for building rich experiences in HTML5 that work beautifully on Windows Phone.
• ProcessingJS for Windows and Windows Phone - The ProcessingJS library uses HTML5 canvas to create digital art, simple games and visualizations. We have a full curriculum on creative coding including sample projects and full-featured apps.
• Construct 2 - HTML5 based game creator focused on building beautiful 2D HTML5 games. Support for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps.
• YoYo GameMaker - Cross-platform HTML5 game development with support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.

  HTML5 Evangelist Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen) walks you through the creation of a fun and inventive game called Yeti Bowl, teaching you to build HTML5 games as you have fun playing one.

  HTML5 Evangelist Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen) walks you through the creation of a fun and inventive game called Yeti Bowl, teaching you to build HTML5 games as you have fun playing one.

Download the Code Samples:

http://yetibowl.codeplex.com/

Next in series:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/HTML5-Games-Yeti-Style-Part-4-of-4

  HTML5 Evangelist Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen) walks you through the creation of a fun and inventive game called Yeti Bowl, teaching you to build HTML5 games as you have fun playing one.

Download the Code Samples:

http://yetibowl.codeplex.com/

Next in series:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/HTML5-Games-Yeti-Style-Part-3-of-4

  HTML5 Evangelist Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen) walks you through the creation of a fun and inventive game called Yeti Bowl, teaching you to build HTML5 games as you have fun playing one.

Download the Code Samples:

http://yetibowl.codeplex.com/

Next in series:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/HTML5-Games-Yeti-Style-Part-2-of-4

Game Starterkit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure

This Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 contains what you need to get started with game programming for Windows 8, including online high score in Windows Azure. The game kit is written in HTML and JavaScript.

Download now – follow instructions below to make it work.

Before we start, let me show you what you get with this solution.

Example game
The kit comes with an example game that you can modify and play with. The code is all in one file so it’s easy to play with for beginners. Feel free to use it however you like.

The kit will get updated with cooler and more advanced game that you can use as a basis when developing your own. Follow this blog to get the updates!

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If you want to learn how to create this game that comes with this starter kit, you can read the guide here (slightly different graphics):

Part I:
http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/html5-game-development-for-windows-8-1-getting-started/

Part II:
http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/html5-game-development-for-windows-8-2-adding-a-player/

Part III:
http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/html5-game-development-for-windows-8-3-finishing-your-first-game/

• Implementation of high score in Windows Azure
  The kit also enables support for Windows Azure and handles the connection, and got functions to check if you are having a internet connection. You need to have your own Windows Azure account, and set up the service/datatable yourself.
• Snap view
• Tiles
• Settings charm implementation

Let’s get you up and running!

Follow this guide to get everything up and running with the starter kit.

1) Install the tools

2) Get an account on Windows Azure

3) Create your Mobile Service and Database

4) Configure

5) Build your solution and make sure it works

Go back to the solution, make sure you have the correct URL and Application Key in your solution, and then Build and run the project.

The game starts up, and when you die, your score will be uploaded to this table. Check that the column Score is created, and that it contains the correct score value you wanted.

Go to the Data tab and the table to see your scores:

Now, be creative. There are a lot of funny little games you can create by just modifying this simple template.

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Download now

Here's a snap of the Solution;

And a snip, once you've set everything up, on how easy it is to talk to Windows Azure Mobile Services

If you're creating a Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 app (or iOS or Android) Windows Azure can really ease your cross platform data needs (Yeah, I know the irony in that, but it's true).

So anyway.. you've got your starter kit, you've got your cloud storage, now just add some "You"...

[00:30] - Introduction to Pointer Events.
[03:00] - Upgrading of brick breaker app from mouse to pointers.

Additional Resources:

Pointer Events Specification

[00:30] - Build you app for the Web. 
[02:40] - Build your app for Windows 8.
[09:16] - Build your app for Windows Phone 8.

This week Brady and Cory are joined by former Microsoft employee John Papa. John shares his expertise on Single Page Applications (SPA) by showing off his new Visual Studio templates Hot Towel and Hot Towelette.

Show Links

• John Papa's SPA Jump Start
• Single Page Applications Templates on ASP.NET
• Hot Towel on GitHub
• Durandal
• Breeze

Follow Brady Gaster on Twitter

Follow Cory Fowler on Twitter

Follow John Papa on Twitter

• [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen)
• [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira)
• [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being used? (Lee Stott)
• [03:47] Three Essential Tips For Async - Introduction (Charles, Lucian Wischik)
• [05:07] Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI (Peter Kellner)
• [05:45] HTML Game Dev with Construct 2
• [06:49] Using Phone Resources in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany, Andy Wigley)
• [07:47] Web Development Goodies in Visual Studio 2012 (Adil Mughal)
• [08:47] A new resource for your icons… (ROUSSEAU Michel )
• [09:07] JavaScript API for Office (wall poster)
• [10:13] New Unit Test functionality in VS2012 Update 2: Test Playlist (Ricci Gian Maria)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:42] Tech Fails in film (Scott Hanselman)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[12:57] Battery powered Kinect on wheels!

Construct 2

Physics

Add realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks.

Special Effects

Over 70 visual effects to make your games look exceptional.

Preview over Wifi

Instantly preview your games on mobiles & tablets over Wifi.

Complete Manual

Full access to our comprehensive documentation.

Friendly Community

Get help and share your experiences with our welcoming and friendly community.

Extendible

Use our fully documented Javascript SDK to extend Construct 2.

No Programming Required

Make your game do what it needs to do in a visual and human readable way with the powerful event system.

There's no need to memorise cryptic languages. Focus on what really matters: designing your game!

It's ideal for beginners, and powerful enough to let experts prototype faster than ever before.

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Okay, that sounds great... But how do you get started (and given that I did mention free...)

Construct 2 [Download]

The Free HTML5 Game Engine

Download Construct 2 Now

Construct 2 Free Edition has been downloaded by tens of thousands of people. Download Construct 2 now and start making your own games!

106mb for Windows XP, Vista & 7

Free Bundle Download

The free edition of Construct 2 also comes with sprites, sound effects and original music for you to add to your games!

13.1 MB - Free Music/SoundFX/Sprites

Want more features?

Unlock Construct 2's true potential by upgrading to a license today.

A license is required if you want to make money from your games!

How hard is it to create a Windows 8 App? I had my first, using one of the sample projects, in under 3 minutes...

How to make a Windows 8 app

Creating a game for Windows 8 is easy with Construct 2. If you haven't already, download the Free edition and get going with the Beginner's guide!

You might also be interested in exporting to Windows Phone 8 as well (which must be done separately).

Setup

You'll need Windows 8 (RTM or newer - it won't work on the Release Preview or older). You then need to install Visual Studio 2012 Express on Windows 8.

If you're installing Windows 8 and have never installed an operating system before, please take care during the setup. You may need to adjust BIOS settings and format or partition a disk. Making a mistake could cause data loss or result in a system that is difficult to recover. If you're not sure you should ask someone for help while setting up, since the steps involved are out of the scope of this guide, and be certain to make backups of any important data beforehand.

Development

You'll need to add touch controls. See this tutorial on touch controls for help on that.

Different devices have different size screens. See supporting multiple screen sizes.

You can add the Windows 8 object to your project to take integrate with Windows 8 specific features like snap and roaming storage.

Exporting from Construct 2

First, ensure your project has the right Name, Description and Author properties set, since these will be used in the exported app.

In the Export Project dialog, choose Export for Windows 8 and follow the next steps as you would for exporting an ordinary project.

In the export directory you will find a Visual Studio project. Note there are three image files for the app icons, app-logo.png, app-smalllogo.png and app-storelogo.png. You should replace these with your own images but keep them exactly the same dimensions.

The main project file has the extension .sln (solution). Double-click it in Windows 8 and Visual Studio should open it.

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Yeah, you read that right, the export results in a Visual Studio Solution.

I install Construct 2, created a new Space Blaster project, exported to Windows 8, set my Publisher cert and BAM! I had my Win8 Modern UI game up and playing. That's pretty cool...

Start:

Create:

Export:

Build:

Play!

Yep, you have a ready for the Windows Store game...

What kind of games can you create? Just check out the arcade, http://www.scirra.com/arcade. But be careful as you might not see the light of day for a while... there's some pretty funny games, for example the NSFW My Irrational Fear of Unicorns had me laughing out loud.

What? You want even more power and capabilities? You want to mesh this with the very cool Azure Mobile Services? Well I've got a plugin just for you...

Azure Mobile Services Plugin for Construct 2

This plugin for Construct 2 makes it easy to integrate the power of Azure Mobile Services into your games for Windows 8. Saving to the cloud is a great way to seamlessly store data for achievements, leaderboards, save games, user data and lots more!

Features:

Conditions

Data

• On Query Completed
• On Record Deleted
• On Record Inserted
• On Record Updated

Data Error Handling

• On Query Error
• On Record Delete Error
• On Record Insert Error
• On Record Update Error

Identity

• Is User Authenticated
• On Authenticate Success
• On Logged Out

Identity Error Handling

• On Authenticate Error

Actions

Data

• Delete Existing Record
• Insert New Record
• Query Table
• Update Existing Record

Identity

• Authenticate User
• Log Out

Expressions

• LastData
• LastFullName
• LastUserID

That enough to keep you busy this weekend? I think so...

• [03:41] - Implement trial functionality
• [17:44] - Error handling
• [38:13] - Implement a test strategy
• [52:51] - Unit testing in JavaScript apps

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [01:27] - Data caching
• [12:00] - Data storage
• [31:56] - Secure application data

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [02:13] - UI experience with image scaling
• [11:19] - UI experience with promises
• [35:38] - Chaining promises
• [49:00] - Animations and transitions
• [56:23] - Create custom controls
• [1:07:52] - Globalization and localization

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [01:33] - Implement printing
• [20:03] - Implement PlayTo
• [36:25] - User notification via WNS
• [46:07] - Two ways to set up a push service

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [03:24] - Capture pictures and video
• [25:53] - Jack of Tools demo
• [30:15] - Capture audio
• [34:47] - Get data from sensors
• [47:00] - Enumerate and discover device capabilities

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [15:21] - Create background tasks
• [24:54] - Consume background tasks
• [29:01] - Integrate WinRT components

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Background Tasks and Components
• Mod 02: Hardware and Sensors
• Mod 03: Printing and PlayTo
• Mod 04: Animations, Custom Controls, and Globalization
• Mod 05: Data, Files and Encryption
• Mod 06: App Deployment

• [0:26] IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses, RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• [2:00] Visual Studio 2012 Update Guide (Robert MacLean)
• [2:25] Visual Studio Extension Guide (Robert MacLean)
• [2:53] Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging (Wolf Kienzle), Image Debugging for Visual Studio (Rob Knies ), [Visual Studio Gallery] Image Watch
• [4:01] [Window Phone] Dev Center app
• [4:33] Windows Store App Example: Itinerary Hunter (Steven Hollidge)
• [5:05] LinqToWiki [Found Via LinqToWiki: A strongly typed library for accessing the Wikipedia API]
• [5:56] HTML5 forms introduction and new attributes (Richard Clark)
• [6:44] Service Bus Messaging Deep-Dive (Clemens Vasters)
• [7:33] Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with JavaScript (Bob Tabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz)
• [8:26] Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start (Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards)
• [9:11] Building Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Jump Start (Ben Riga)
• [9:38] LearningLine, Get your free one month via: http://bit.ly/learningline-twc9

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[10:43] Geeky company names (John D. Cook)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[11:36] Microsoft Vision

• [02:31] - Introduction to HTML5
• [13:13] - HTML5 markup
• [27:06] - jQuery overview
• [48:04] - Visual Studio web tools

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Now with more Cow Bell!

For those of you who haven’t been following the antics of the Yeti, we’ve been using this demo game and content around the world to instruct and inspire developers to produce games in HTML5.  Today I’m happy to announce the release of the Yeti Triple Play (Window 8 App, Web and Windows Phone 8) codebase on CodePlex.

Check out the details below:

What is YetiBowl?

YetiBowl is a HTML5 game development workshop.  With Windows 8 HTML5 development, we have the opportunity to reach a whole new community of developers.  These web developers have been “left out” of the app market opportunities of the last few years, and windows 8 provides them an opportunity to get in the game.  With the most recent release of the code base, we now have a version ported to Windows Phone 8 as well!

How do you play the game?

Yeti bowl is a challenge oriented game where you play the Yeti.  Armed with snowballs you have to knock the hikers off the mountain before they reach the summit.  Once three hikers reach the top of the summit, game over.  Go ahead and try the web version of the game.  My high score is 126, good luck!

Why is Yeti Bowl special?

Yeti blow show the powerful portability of HTML5. With no changes to the code base, this web based game can easy be ported to both a Window 8 app and a Windows Phone 8 App.  You’ll see our Windows 8 App is also tricked out with additional features utilizing a handful with Windows 8 APIs to differentiate the App version from the web version of the game.  View our Code Base to see the examples.

 Who is this for?

 In this workshop, you’ll be able to gear it to a few different audiences, including the following.

Students:  We’ve geared this deck to take a developer from the basics of building an HTML5 app, to the advanced features that will set an app apart.  Any student with a basic understanding of web standards should be able to be successful in this workshop.  These sessions would actually go quite well in an event geared towards web standards.

Corporate partners:  Many companies have their development teams stacked with software engineers who have web development skills.  Where other platforms have forced them to “retool” developers (by teaching them an unfamiliar language) to build a native app, Windows 8 lets them build apps in the languages they already know and love. Some partners have reported development times up to 5X faster with HTML5/JS Windows 8 Apps, as compared to iOS apps using the same web services.

Web Developers:  Developers with asp, php, or even ruby skill sets will be comfortable with the constructs of an HTML page and JavaScript files.  Whether they are familiar with traditional Microsoft technologies or not, HTML5/JS app development often provides enough familiar grounds for them to build a great app.  If you are introducing the Windows Store App development environment to a group who haven’t worked in our ecosystems before, I’ve noted HTML5/JS has been the language they prefer.

JavaScript Developers: JavaScript developers have endless opportunities inside of a windows 8 app.  They can use their same skill set, and some of their same js libraries to build windows 8 apps.  Within the decks, some slides are hidden or whole sections tacked on to the end of the decks that can be pulled in for advanced users like JavaScript conferences or user groups.

HTML5 YetiBowl game: an HTML5 cross browser version of the game that works with keyboard or touch.  The game can be found in the “web” folder:

https://yetibowl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/1738d57d6e63#YetiBowl_web/game.html

Windows 8 game:  the windows 8 game requires you install the Microsoft Ad SDK first [GD: Which you can find via Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 - Getting Started - Prerequisites]. You should then be able to open the game and install it:

https://yetibowl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/1738d57d6e63#YetiBowl_Win8/YetiBowl/game.html

Windows Phone 8 game:  the web version of the game ported to windows phone 8.  See Matthias demonstrate how easy it was to convert this web based game into a Windows Phone 8 App. 

https://yetibowl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/1738d57d6e63#YetiBowl_WP8/Yeti/Html/game.html

Live coding version of talk:  From build 2012, Giorgio presented a session in which he live coded an HTML5 game then converted it to a Windows 8 Store app, all within the one hour session:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-110

Feedback

This is version 1.1, and I want to continue to develop this content.  For that to happen I need your feedback.  Feel free to change this content to fit your need.  I only ask that you share your additions or improvements back with me so I can incorporate them into the original version. Send feedback to jeffburt@microsoft.com.  Any events using this content or geared towards HTML5, I’ll be happy to retweet.  Find me at @boyofgreen on twitter.

The source downloaded and all three projects ran for me the first time, with no problems (once I found and installed the Microsoft Ad SDK).

Some snaps of the Solutions. WP8;

Windows 8;

Web (no solution, just files...)

Running snaps? Yep, got those too...

Windows 8

Windows Phone 8

Web

All of which show that I stink on all the platforms...

What's nice is that each project is tweaked to utilize the features of the given platform (hence my "same'ish" note in the open line).

For example, in the Windows 8 app, it uses the Camera to make the Yeti all you...

There's other cool little features like customizing the Hikers, setting their name and even pictures too...

All in all this is a fun little game that shows how your HTML skills can be used to build real apps and games for the web, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8...

Of course, given who two the the instructors work for, I might get in trouble for highlighting this, but hey, HTML5 is HTML5 right? Game dev is Game dev, right? We're all one happy HTML5 web world now, aren't we? It's about the code and learning, man, not "the man" we work for, man! (I'm so getting fired from this gig...lol

Udacity - HTML5 Game Development

Class Summary

This course will walk you through the major components of building GRITS, an HTML5 game. We'll talk about how to take standard game development techniques, and use them to create high performance HTML5 applications.

What Should I Know?

Knowledge of HTML, Javascript, and how the web works is necessary for this course. There is an optional unit on the specific parts of Javascript and the DOM that you'll need for this class as a refresher.

What Will I Learn?

At the end of this course, you'll understand how to develop an HTML5 game. You will gain familiarity with HTML5 features such as 2D canvas and techniques for improving performance.

Syllabus

• Unit 0 - Optional HTML/Javascript crash course
• Unit 1 - Introduction to Canvas rendering
• Unit 2 - Atlases and Map rendering
• Unit 3 - Basic Input, handling events
• Unit 4 - The entity hierarchy
• Unit 5 - Box2D, and using external libraries
• Unit 6 - Adding sound
• Unit 7 - Asynchronous Loading

Instructors

• Colt McAnlis
• Peter Lubbers
• Sean Bennett

So there you go! A very cool course, free from Udacity. Now get working on your next cool HTML5 game!

• [0:34] Announcing Release of Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie)
• [1:42] Broadcast push notifications to millions of mobile devices using Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Scott Guthrie)
• [2:33] Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8 (Cliff Simpkins )
• [3:25] Fall Fury: Part 1 - Introduction (Den Delimarsky, Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Rick Barraza )
• [5:16] Tile design guidelines for Windows Phone 8 (Shubhan Chemburkar)
• [6:08] Building the Bing apps for Windows 8 (Jigar Thakkar)
• [7:18] Building HTML5 Games for the Atari Arcade
• [8:36] Introducing SvcPerf - An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF (Sajay Antony), http://svcperf.codeplex.com/
• [9:36] CODEMINE: Building a Software Analytics Platform for Collecting and Analyzing Engineering Process Data at Microsoft (Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan, and Wolfram Schulte)
• [10:40] GoingNative 13: Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Meet Roberto Sonnino

Picks of the Week!

• Clint's Pick of the Week:[11:43] Everything you need to know about the Lumia 820 and 3D printing (Joel Willans)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[13:00] Visual Studio ​Achievement​s; they're not Xbox live right? (Cheevos!)

Next Steps:
Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development
Step #2 – Download Visual Studio Express for Windows 8
Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8

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• Getting started with Windows 8 Apps
• How to Sell Your Apps and Make Money in the Windows Store
• Attend a Windows 8 Developer Camp and Hackathon in your area!

Blogs & Articles:

• Dave Isbitski’s blog
• Learn more about appMobi
• appMobi Developer Center

Videos:

• Microsoft DevRadio: Managing Your Windows 8 Enterprise Apps with Windows Intune
• Microsoft DevRadio: Top 10 Windows 8 Secrets for App Success

Virtual Labs:

• Windows 8 Release Preview Virtual Labs