Category: Windows Phone App
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Where’s my Water? Vs PSSST
Having kids has opened up my eyes to many things There I was cooking tea for the kids and my young daughter asked to borrow my Surface to play ‘Where’s my Water?‘. This game is pretty much regarded by almost everyone as a good game. I found it dull. My daughter was completing the game…
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Skinning the games
It was important to apply a ‘skin’ to each of the games… firstly to make the games more appealing to those who’d never played the games and secondly to separate the games from the other Spectrum emulators that are available. As I’d used the ‘game harness’ skinning the games was fairly simple. The most important…
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Jet Pac – Graphics
The Original Sprites The initial idea was to make remakes of the original games. The first prototype for the Jet Pac remake running on Windows Phone 7 is shown below. To speed up things, the graphics were ripped from the original game, this allowed development to continue whilst the graphics were redrawn. The below screenshots…
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Software
For the development of the Microsoft Phone 7 and Windows 8 Store apps we used various software. Most were free or very cheap. Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 was used for developing the Windows Phone 7 and the Windows 7 versions. Development was done in C# using XNA via Phone SDK. Visual Studio 2012 was…
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Tooling up
The Collected Works From eBay, I bought the Collected Works. This was a 1988 compilation of all the Ultimate Play the Game games, except for Underwurlde, for some reason. The four games released under the US Gold banner were also not included, but rightly or wrongly, they were not regarded as Tim and Chris Stamper…