Visual Studio Achievements Come To Windows Phone, Still Beta

December 25, 2011 | By Liwen Guo

Achievements are the rage these days, with every gaming platform, from the Xbox to Windows Phone 7 to iOS offering them.

Turns out that, there are even achievements for coders – Microsoft’s Channel9 recently launched Visual Studio Achievements. And Den Delimarsky took to the challenge and developed a Windows Phone client, still in beta, which currently allows you to:

Track achievements fro multiple accounts
Compare achievements between Channel9 members
Pin Channel9 user accounts to the start screen for easy access to their personal achievements

Better yet, he’s planning even more features for the final version:

Achievement sharing (Email, Twitter, Facebook)
Push notification to alert about new achievements for tracked users
Comparison of an unlimited number of users

However, bad news for you Gamerscore-hungry: there’s obviously no Xbox Live integration.

Head over to Den’s blog for more details. [via WPCentral]

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About Liwen Guo

I've been tinkering with smartphones since the old Windows Mobile days, creating the popular Livven Themes series. Since then I've moved on to an HTC HD2, running Windows Phone 7.5, and Galaxy Nexus, running Android 4.0. I also have an iPod touch. Visit my website and follow me on Twitter.

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