Windows Phone 7 XNA games shown off
Engadget has been lucky enough to be shown 2 early 3D Windows Phone 7 games created in XNA Game Studio 4.
More after the break.
XNA Game Studio 4 to bring unified game development to WP7, Xbox and desktop
Michael Klucher, Lead Program Manger for the XNA Development Platform, revealed XNA Game Studio 4 in a blog post prior to GDC today.
XNA Game Studio 4.0 allows for game development on Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox 360, and Windows PC.
On Windows Phone 7 it will feature hardware accelerated 3D API’s on Windows Phone 7 Series and Visual Studio 2010 integration, for Xbox partners Xbox LIVE and a premium gaming experience on Windows Phone 7 Series.
Through the Gamer Services API’s a user’s Gamertag and 2D Avatar will be available, as well as achievements and notifications for asynchronous turn based gaming.
ZuneHD developers are encouraged to transition their games to Windows Phone 7. Mary Jo Foley suggests a more compatible ZuneHD 2 may be coming to address this issue.
Read more at Klucher.com and ZDNet here.
Windows Phone 7 development docs leaked
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We can always count on XDA-Developers to bring us the news early. In this case it is some snippets of the developer documentation for Windows Phone 7. The above bit confirms the OS is multi-tasking capable, but then we knew this already.
More after the break.




















































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