About this ebook
- Complete focus on the best Windows Phone 7 game development techniques using XNA 4.0
- Easy to follow cookbook allowing you to dive in wherever you want.
- Convert ideas into action using practical recipes
- Full 2D sprite animation, texture presentation.
- Concise and clear instructions for high performance 3D graphics rendering.
- Using accelerometer to control the game object.
- Apply the tap, flick, hold and drag gestures on Windows Phone 7 touch screen for different situations.
- Understanding the XNA content pipeline for improved game asset processing and management.
- A practical guide for collision detection.
- Explore the GUI system development.
- Add sound and apply the 3D effect to your game.
- Render terrain and water on CPU.
- Work with game cameras.
- Learn key-frame based and skeletal animation techniques.
- Hook up your game to Xbox Live.
If you are an aspiring programmer with some basic concepts in C# and object-oriented knowledge who wants to create games for Windows Phone 7, this book is for you. This book is also for the experienced programmers want to transfer from Windows or Xbox to the Windows Phone 7 platform. Only basic knowledge of C# and .Net is required.
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Zheng Yang is a hands-on technical leader with 5 years combined professional experience providing core development engineering for consumer-facing applications of global Microsoft 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 got the 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. Solid expertise across the full life cycles of both software development and game production.
