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Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

By : Zheng Yang
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Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

By: Zheng Yang

Overview of this book

Developing games for Windows Phone 7, a new mobile platform, is your big chance to impact the world of mobile games. The XNA 4.0 for Windows Phone 7 integrates a lot of capabilities from software and hardware for you to create incredible games. The next generation of mobile games will be built by you. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook is the best choice for you to make a game on Windows Phone 7. The book helps you to master the indispensable techniques to create your games using XNA 4.0. From the basics such as animating a 2D sprite and interacting with the customized graphical user interface to the more challenging such as 3D graphic rendering and collision detection. This comprehensive cookbook covers all the essential areas of XNA game development for Windows Phone 7, such as approaches to control the sensors, gestures and typical kinds of cameras. We also have recipes for sprite animation, texture rendering, and graphical user interface development that will give you a powerful tool to work with 2D effects. After this we move onto the more juicy stuff with recipes covering 3D graphic rendering and collision detection, and major ways to improve your loading efficiency. You will also work with Xbox live so you can take your game global. Finally, no mobile game development book would be complete without a look at performance optimization to make your games run faster. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook will equip you with the firepower to rock the game world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating a screen transition effect using RenderTarget2D


Do you remember the scene transition in Star Wars? The scene transition is a very common method for smoothly changing the movie scene from current to next. The frequent transition patterns are Swiping, Rotating, Fading, Checkerboard Scattering, and so on. With the proper transition effects, the audience will know that the plots go well when the stage changes. Besides movies, the transition effects also have a relevant application in video games, especially in 2D games. Every game state change will trigger a transition effect. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a typical transition effect using RenderTarget2D for your Windows Phone 7 game.

How to do it...

The following steps will draw a spinning squares transition effect using the RenderTarget2D technique:

  1. 1. Create a Windows Phone Game named RenderTargetTransitionEffect and change Game1.cs to RenderTargetTransitionEffectGame.cs. Then, add Image1.png and Image2.png to the content...