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Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

Copyright 2012 Packt Publishing

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First published: February 2012

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Author

Zheng Yang

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Ioannis Panagopoulos

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About the Author

Zheng Yang is a hands-on Technical Leader with five years combined professional experience providing core development engineering for global Microsoft Consumer-Facing Applications and as an independent Game Developer. He is a dynamic, results-oriented developer with a proven history of providing innovative solutions to complex technical problems. When he was a student, he achieved recognition from Microsoft Research Asia and Microsoft Imagine Cup Team. Zheng Yang has advanced technical knowledge of key development technologies including C#, the .NET framework, C++, Visual Studio, DirectX, and SQL Server. He has solid expertise across the full life cycles of both Software Development and Game Production.

About the Reviewers

Ioannis Panagopoulos is a Computer Engineer with a PhD in Computer Systems Design specializing in software development for commercial as well as scientific applications. Since 2010, he has also been an MVP for Microsoft. He has participated in many software development projects targeting a vast variety of application domains in collaboration with companies and research facilities. He is also offering consulting services regarding software design and implementation in .NET technologies. He has given lectures in higher education in areas including of operating systems software development and hardware design. He is also an invited speaker in several Microsoft development events. His current software development passions are WPF, ASP.NET MVC, the Entity Framework, XNA in WP7 and HTML5. He lives in Athens, Greece.

Elbert Perez is a full-time independent Game Developer working exclusively on Windows Phone using XNA and Silverlight. Elbert has created over 13 games on these frameworks with the majority of them breaking the top 20 downloaded games.

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This book is dedicated to:

My parents, Decheng Yang and Guangxiu Shen, for giving me the spirit and belief to pursue my dream.

Thanks for always encouraging me to do what I love to do.

Preface

Windows Phone certainly held the hot spot at the world-class consumer electronics event, the International CES in January 2012. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "The past year has really been about the whole push to build what can clearly be the strong third ecosystem in the smartphone market, with a very differentiated point of view."

In fact, Windows Phone has many strong and compelling specialties in mobile markets People Hub, Live Tiles, Marketplace, and Xbox Live. We believe 2012 2013 will be a remarkable year for Microsoft and Windows Phone.

As a developer, everyone hopes to rock the world by using their creativity. How do we do it? We could write an application, but what kind of application? Games? Why? Well, games are the most dazzling way to grab the attention of, and also to entertain people. Why Windows Phone? Windows Phone provides seamless access to your Xbox Live space and is equipped with handy development tool set to make your game global. How? Read this book!

Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook is a unique choice covering everything you need to know to develop games on the Windows Phone. It explains all the core areas of XNA game development for Windows Phone, such as controlling sensors, gestures, and different kinds of cameras. The 2D game development recipes will introduce you to the techniques of sprite animation, texture rendering, and graphical user interface creation. After that, the book moves on to more cutting edge topics, with recipes covering 3D graphic rendering, animation and collision detection, and key methods of improving loading efficiency. As a game development book, you will also find throughout discussions and hands-on examples about performance optimization to make your games run faster. Finally, the book presents all of the steps you need to take to make your games show up in the Marketplace the world stage of game development. It's your time!

What this book covers

, Jump into Windows Phone Developer Tools and XNA Game Studio 4.0 , tells you the background of Windows Phone and how to set up the development environment for building your first Windows Phone game.

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