Harbour, J: Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game

Introduction 1 Audience and Organization 1 Conventions Used in This Book 5 Resource Files 5 Part I: Introduction HOUR 1: Making Games for Windows Phone 7 9 Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 9 Windows Phone 7 as a Game Platform? 10 History of the Platform 11 Hardware Specifications 16 Summary 17 Q&A 18 Workshop 18 HOUR 2: Getting Started with Visual C# 2010 for Windows Phone 21 Visual C# 2010 Express 21 Using Silverlight for WP7 24 XNA Game Studio 30 XNA or Silverlight: What's the Verdict? 37 Summary 37 Q&A 38 Workshop 38 HOUR 3: Printing Text 39 Creating the Font Demo Project 39 Adding a New Font to the Content Project 41 Learning to Use the SpriteFont Class 45 Printing Text 46 Summary 48 Q&A 48 Workshop 49 HOUR 4: Getting User Input 51 Exploring Windows Phone Touchscreen Input 51 Simulating Touch Input 52 Using Gestures on the Touchscreen 55 Summary 56 Q&A 57 Workshop 57 HOUR 5: Drawing Bitmaps 59 Adding a Bitmap File to an XNA Project 59 Loading a Bitmap File as an Asset 62 Drawing a Bitmap with SpriteBatch 63 Drawing Bitmaps with Transparency 65 Summary 68 Q&A 68 Workshop 69 Part II: Sprite Programming HOUR 6: Treating Bitmaps as Sprites 73 Bringing Bitmaps to Life 73 Drawing Lots of Bitmaps 74 Running into Limits with Global Variables 76 Creating a Simple Sprite Class 79 Summary 87 Q&A 88 Workshop 88 HOUR 7: Transforming Sprites 89 Translating (Moving) a Sprite 89 Using Velocity as Movement Over Time 91 Moving Sprites in a Circle 94 Summary 98 Q&A 98 Workshop 98 HOUR 8: More Sprite Transforms: Rotation and Scaling 101 Rotating a Sprite 101 Scaling a Sprite 108 Summary 114 Q&A 114 Workshop 115 HOUR 9: Advanced Linear and Angular Velocity 117 Calculating Angular Velocity 117 "Pointing" a Sprite in the Direction of Movement 124 Summary 129 Q&A 129 Workshop 129 HOUR 10: When Objects Collide 131 Boundary Collision Detection 131 Radial Collision Detection 139 Assessing the Damage 141 Summary 147 Q&A 147 Workshop 147 HOUR 11:

JonathanS. Harbourhas been programming video games since the 1980s. His first game system was an Atari 2600, which he played with, disassembled, on the floor of his room as a kid. He has written on numerous subjects such as C++, C#, Basic, Java, DirectX, Allegro, Lua, DarkBasic, Pocket PC, and game consoles. He is the author of another recent book titled XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers. He holds a Master's degree in Information Systems Management. Visit his web log and game development forum at www.jharbour.com/forum, and his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/jharbourcom.