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Developing games for Microsoft Smartphone : Games Programming with Cheese: Part Three October 15, 2004 [MS Smartphone] | By Edward J. R. Let's face it: for many users of Microsoft Smartphone, both young and old, the only interesting applications are games. Trying to convince them, that Opera for Microsoft Smartphone or AvantGo for Microsoft Smartphone are fascinating applications is absolutely pointless - all they care about are games. Also programming games is more interesting for many developers, then developing some dull enterprise applications... In this series of articles Microsoft teaches how to make games for Microsoft Smartphone, and not only that, but also how to do it with .NET technologies! Here is a screen shot from "Salad Rescue" game - that is developed as a sample of how to program games for Microsoft Smartphone:
An introduction to games programming on the Windows Mobile-based Smartphone by using the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio 2003. Games Programming with Cheese: Part Two describes a complete game. This article will explain how to develop the game further, to allow the high score to be preserved when the program is not active. Also, suggestions are offered for how the graphics can be improved and how the overall organization of the game objects can be tidied up. Finally, a sprite library is demonstrated by means of another game, Salad Rescue. To read this article, 3rd part of the series, click here.
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