windows 8

Learning Windows 8 Game Development - A Review

The game development landscape, especially for Indies is certainly changing. With the recent XBOXOne and PS4 console releases show that skills like C++ are still very much in demand, as a fellow Indie this does concern be greatly. I left my C++ skills in the past once MDX and then XNA were born and the thoughts of going back does intimidate me somewhat.

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Learning Windows 8 Game Development

As the book title suggests, this is a Windows8 title, however what is not immediately apparent is that it is a C++ Windows game... read more

XNA in Windows 8 from dream to reality

Just to cross post back to my own blog (really did that the wrong way round Open-mouthed smile) here’s my entry to the Intel App-Up competition now being run on codeproject, if you got an idea for an app or game for Windows 8 then you should write a short article for the comp about your idea and you may even walk away with a free Intel Ultrabook to build it with.

**Update

Had some interesting discussions following this original post including a very helpful link from Travis Woodward aka @RabidLionGames. Seems a... read more

Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations

Boy what a crazy couple of months, to kick things off I got my first Windows 8 game up and running and through the App Excellence labs on to the Store in prompt fashion, not a glitch (if you do not count the first lab I attended not understanding what the labs were really there for, putting a tick in the box for your app to go on the store). Not one single issue in submission, it was in and done in about 4 days.

1 Day after clicking submit AdDuplex go and show off an offer where the... read more