I had meant to do this sooner, but got tied up in other projects. I’ve added the source code for my Windows Phone 8 app, Spell and Speak to my GitHub repository. It’s under the name DataBoundApp3. Perhaps one day I’ll figure out how to actually change the name on GitHub. It’s all in C#…
Recently, I’ve been dabbling in various gaming frameworks and learning new languages as a means to understand the pros and cons of each. Along the way I felt it was necessary to document my findings, in hopes that it’ll prove useful for other aspiring game developers out there as well. Last month Microsoft began hosting the New…
The practical parts of my Windows Phone children’s app is complete, so now I’m working on cleaning up the code and adding details to refine it and make it appear like a professional product. In particular, I wanted to add sound effects. I wanted to add a clicking sound when a user navigates to and…
The most difficult part of this project thus far has been understanding the idea behind MVVM, or Model-View-View Model. Wikipedia defines it as: “MVVM facilitates a clear separation of the development of the graphical user interface (either as markup language or GUI code) from the development of the business logic or back end logic known as the model (also known as the data…
UPDATE: Please excuse the poor formatting. WordPress picks and selectively chooses the HTML and formatting it wants to keep, so at this point I’ve just given up and stopped trying to make it look nice. This is an ongoing blog of my first adventure in Windows Phone 8 development. I do this so that others can follow along…
Now that I have some idle time on my hands after I’ve finished writing the book on UnrealScript and am awaiting edits, I want to get my hands dirty on my next project. After watching Windows Phone MVP Nick Landry (@ActiveNick) give his “What’s New in Windows Phone 8 for developers” talk at last week’s NYC…
So it’s been a long time coming, but my first Xbox Live Indie Game, Piz-ong, finally appeared on Xbox Live this morning. It took me a few attempts to get it through peer review, and it was always for something silly, like forgetting an “if”statement for the trial mode (which I later found out from James…
Update: I’ve found the thread where in the App Hub where I got the original idea for the powerups. It is now linked. This is part 2 of my Dream.Build.Play journal, where I outline what it’s like to learn the technical side of XNA and C#. You can find my first part here. As I…