I'm asking because you are using XNA 4.0 for development which is part of the WP7 SDK (and because I own a WP7 device and think the system is awesome )

I originally had the GBH2 map renderer running on WP, but it currently uses shaders and such which are unsupported on WP; a WP port might be possible at a later time however.

 

(random fact: this GBH2 codebase was originally intended for WP, as shown by the project path on my system - X:\gbhm, where m stands for 'mobile' )

Thanks for the reply, a future WP7 version would be nice somewhen

 

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

+1

thisis10

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

Smarthphones aren't meant for "serious" gaming imo. (Note: Angry Birds is NOT serious.)

I think the touchscreen controls are just not precise enough to play games like you do on a 3DS/PSV.

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

Smarthphones aren't meant for "serious" gaming imo. (Note: Angry Birds is NOT serious.)

I think the touchscreen controls are just not precise enough to play games like you do on a 3DS/PSV.

I think it's not about "serious," I think it's actually more about complexity. I think this game will have a good compexity for WP7, maybe a little more than enjoyable (like Call of Duty: World At War Zombies on iPhone)

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

Smarthphones aren't meant for "serious" gaming imo. (Note: Angry Birds is NOT serious.)

I think the touchscreen controls are just not precise enough to play games like you do on a 3DS/PSV.

I think it's not about "serious," I think it's actually more about complexity. I think this game will have a good compexity for WP7, maybe a little more than enjoyable (like Call of Duty: World At War Zombies on iPhone)

Maybe "serious" wasn't the right word, but basically I meant the same as you wrote

May I ask why you initially wanted to code it for WP7? Usually devs don't really bother coding for it as they prefer iOS/Android (even though they don't like Android for its fragmentation, but yeah, it has a huge userbase which WP doesn't have :/)

The lack of GTA-style games for WP, for one.

 

or any games, for that matter

Smarthphones aren't meant for "serious" gaming imo. (Note: Angry Birds is NOT serious.)

I think the touchscreen controls are just not precise enough to play games like you do on a 3DS/PSV.

I think it's not about "serious," I think it's actually more about complexity. I think this game will have a good compexity for WP7, maybe a little more than enjoyable (like Call of Duty: World At War Zombies on iPhone)

It all depends on the platform. As said, phones are too simplistic to be comfortably used to play something that requires a few more buttons, where those games will thrive somewhere else. Phone games are mainly for the casual crowd.