Friday, April 2, 2010

Develop games on the Window Phone 7 Series

Want to develop game on Window Phone 7 Series? Quick! Quick! Be the first of all to get yourself around the new OS. Guys from channel9 have created a tutorial on how to create game running on the platform.

Here is the table of content:

Overview

Exercise 1: XNA Games on the Windows Phone 7 Series
o Task 1 – Game Basics
o Task 2 – Game Resources
o Task 3 – Game Loop
o Task 4 – Game Input
o Task 5 – Alien Game Logic

Summary

There is also Window Phone Series "Rockstar" Awards will be given away to the developer team who win the competition range from first prize to third prize.

Award Finalists receive:

* First Prize: $8,000 USD, a trip to the Worldwide Finals in Warsaw, Poland from July 3-8, 2010, and a Windows Phone for each team member.
* Second Prize: $4,000 USD and a Windows Phone for each team member
* Third Prize: $3,000 USD and a Windows Phone for each team member

Deadline for application entry: May 24, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. GMT.

Detail info and how to register: go to here

Let me know if you are interested. I am thinking to build a team for this competition.