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Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0

By : Brecht Kets, Thomas Goussaert
Book Image

Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0

By: Brecht Kets, Thomas Goussaert

Overview of this book

With the dawn of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has offered us an easy way to create 3D mobile games. In this book, we will build a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together, taking full advantage of the graphics and touch capabilities, along with the sensors of the platform."Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0" is the book for starting game development on the Windows Phone 7 platform. This book will go over the technical aspects of building games along with designing your own framework. Finally we'll build an actual game together from the ground up! This book will set future mobile game developers in the right direction.The XNA framework empowers us to build 2D and 3D games for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7. We will use those capabilities to create stunning 3D games for the Windows Phone 7 platform. We will start by covering the basics like drawing graphics, followed by building a custom framework and end with building a game together!In this book, we will cover drawing 2D and 3D graphics, both static and animations. We will also cover the various ways of handling user input and help set the mood of our game playing both 2D and 3D sound, and accessing the user's media library. The only thing left before building a game is covering several techniques created for making our life easier while building the game, whilst building a framework to do just that. Finally, we'll build a 3D game together that will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform."Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0" is the book you need to get started with mobile game development for Windows Phone 7. Its hands on approach will set you on your way in no time. Let's build some games!
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Application certification requirements


When we submit an application, it has to pass certification. The goal of this certification is to make sure our application is reliable, uses resources efficiently, doesn't interfere with the phone's functionality and does not contain viruses of other malicious software. Therefore we must follow certain rules. These rules range from the fact that the user must be able to receive calls when gaming (and we must thus suspend the game) to the fact that we can't suspend the players music without asking for permission. The set of rules covers six categories:

  • Application certification requirements for Windows Phone

  • Application policies

  • Content policies

  • Application submission requirements

  • Technical certification requirements

  • Additional requirements for Specific Application Types

If and only if our application passes all tests, can it be released to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Because these rules might change from time to time, we will not put them in this book...