Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook. Over 70 recipes for making your own games with this Microsoft Windows Phone 7 XNA book and

Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook. Over 70 recipes for making your own games with this Microsoft Windows Phone 7 XNA book and - Opis

Developing games for Windows Phone 7, a new mobile platform, is your big chance to impact the world of mobile games. The XNA 4.0 for Windows Phone 7 integrates a lot of capabilities from software and hardware for you to create incredible games. The next generation of mobile games will be built by you. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook is the best choice for you to make a game on Windows Phone 7. The book helps you to master the indispensable techniques to create your games using XNA 4.0. From the basics such as animating a 2D sprite and interacting with the customized graphical user interface to the more challenging such as 3D graphic rendering and collision detection.This comprehensive cookbook covers all the essential areas of XNA game development for Windows Phone 7, such as approaches to control the sensors, gestures and typical kinds of cameras. We also have recipes for sprite animation, texture rendering, and graphical user interface development that will give you a powerful tool to work with 2D effects. After this we move onto the more juicy stuff with recipes covering 3D graphic rendering and collision detection, and major ways to improve your loading efficiency. You will also work with Xbox live so you can take your game global. Finally, no mobile game development book would be complete without a look at performance optimization to make your games run faster. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook will equip you with the firepower to rock the game world. Spis treści:
Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook
Table of Contents
Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Jump into Windows Phone Developer Tools and XNA Game Studio 4.0
Introduction
Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools
How to do it...
Creating your first Windows Phone XNA application
How to do it...
How it works...
Deploying your game on an emulator or device
Getting ready
How to do it...
Getting familiar with orientation
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using DrawableComponent and GameServices
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
2. Playing with Windows Phone Touch and Sensors
Introduction
Creating your first touch application/game
Getting ready
The GetState() method
The TryGetPreviousLocation() method
The GetCapabilities() method
How to do it...
How it works...
Taking your touch application to the next level
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Touch Directional Pad (D-pad)
How to do it...
How it works...
Dragging and swiping objects
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Controlling images with Multi-Touch control
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using accelerometer to make a ball move on your phone
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
3. Coordinates and View Your First Step into XNA Game Development on Windows Phone 7
Introduction
Drawing the axes for a 2D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Setting up the position, direction, and field of view of a fixed camera
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Drawing the axes for a 3D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing a first-person shooter (FPS) camera in your game
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing a round rotating camera in a 3D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing a chase camera
How to do it...
How it works...
Using culling to remove the unseen parts and texture mapping
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
4. Heads Up Display (HUD) Your Phone Game User Interface
Introduction
Scaling an image
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Simple Sprite Sheet animation in a 2D game
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Complex Sprite Sheet animation in a 2D game
Getting ready
How to do it
How it works
Creating a text animation in Adventure Genre (AVG) game
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a text-based menu the easiest menu to create
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an image-based menu
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a 3D model-based menu
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a progress bar for game content loading and value status
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating buttons in your game
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a listbox to speed up your information management in a game
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a text input control to communicate with others in a game
How to do it...
How it works...
5. Content Processing
Introduction
The architecture and flow of content processing

The reading phase
The loading phase
Content Document Object Model
Creating a custom importer and processor for your text
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Processing XML files
How to do it...
How it works...
Manipulating the extracted information from an image in the content pipeline
How to do it...
How it works...
Extracting BoundingSphere and BoundingBox information from models
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
6. Entering the Exciting World of 3D Models
Introduction
Controlling a model with the help of trackball rotation
How to do it...
How it works...
Translating the model in world coordinates
How to do it...
How it works...
Scaling a model
How to do it...
How it works...
Viewing the model hierarchy information
How to do it...
How it works...
Highlighting individual meshes of a model
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing a rigid model animation
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a terrain with texture mapping
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Customizing vertex formats
How to do it...
How it works...
Calculating the normal vectors from a model vertex
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Simulating an ocean on your CPU
How to do it...
How it works...
7. Collision Detection
Introduction
Detecting the intersection of line segments
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing per pixel collision detection in a 2D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing BoundingBox collision detection in a 3D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing BoundingSphere collision detection in a 3D game
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing ray-triangle collision detection
Getting ready...
How to do it...
How it works...
Mapping a tapped location to 3D
How to do it...
How it works...
Implementing sphere-triangle collision detection
How to do it...
How it works...
Making a 3D ball move along a curved surface
How to do it...
How it works...
8. Embedding Audio in your Game
Introduction
Controlling an audio file
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding sound effects to your game
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding stereo sounds to your game
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
9. Special Effects
Introduction
Using dual texture effects
How to do it...
How it works...
Using environment map effects
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Rendering different parts of a character into textures using RenderTarget2D
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a screen transition effect using RenderTarget2D
How to do it...
How it works...
10. Performance Optimization Fast! Faster!
Introduction
Optimizing your games performance
Getting ready
Design versus implementation
Game runs slow?
Measuring the running time
How to do it
How it works
There's more...
Using the EQATEC Profiler to profile your game's running time
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Reducing the game contents' loading time
Making good loading decisions
Using the XNA content pipeline to reduce file size
Evaluating the asynchronous background loading
Considering the custom serialization
Improving game performance with garbage collection
Value types versus reference types
Defining a true value checking method
Using StringBuilder for string operations
Drawing integer in string without garbage
Taking advantage of the list for sprites
Preferring struct rather than class when just an instance is needed
11. Launching to the Marketplace
Introduction
Preparing to submit your application to the Marketplace
Application submission checklist
Submitting your application to the Marketplace
Getting ready
How to do it
How it works
Index O autorze: 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. mniej