Uber Geek Games is showing off a WP7 port of their game Dungeon Adventure which is available on Xbox now. Since it’s in XNA the code is mostly reused. Here’s how they describe the game:
Classic Roguelike action, right in your living room! Retro ASCII graphics, an infinite number of random dungeons to loot, and Global Scoreboards to prove you’re the best.
Global Scoreboards – saves your highest scores for local and online highscores
Keyboard and ChatPad support for precise movement
Radial selection for accurate movement, even with a stock Xbox controller
Challenging Awards to unlock
Highly configurable graphics – choose from color or monochrome,
Graphical or ASCII, and remap them however you like.
Multiple zoom levels from close up to a bird’s eye view of the dungeon
For all you Flash coders out there, Robin Debreuil has just released the Swf2XNA program to leverage your skills into WP7 games. To quote him
Swf2XNA is now live! This is an open source (BSD) program that allows you to make Windows/XBox/Win7 games by leveraging Flash for assets and layout, as well as using Box2D visually. It makes 2D games in XNA quite simple to make!
Development on Windows Phone 7 seems to have increased since Microsoft announced they were providing devices to developers, and this is one of the new apps that has come out of that.
Created by the Phone7 blog owner, the application is a very simple concept that is known to many people in the North America and Europe. The concept of ICE translates to In case of Emergency, so if your every in need to talk to someone after an incident, you should be saving their number under ICE.
Mishkin Faustini, the Dirty Developer, has created this nice-looking application in just in just one day using Microsoft’s Expression Blend application design tool.
The app is not fully functional yet and is hard-coded in many places, but Mishkin plans to expand it by linking BART stations to their corresponding schedules.
Microsoft a lot about their DeepZoom Silverlight technology, a brilliant display of it is the site at Mix.Zoomery.com, where the website presents 1.2 Gigapixels of information in a beautiful and easily digestible format.
The web application also translated very easily to a Windows Phone 7 application, as can be seen below, with claimed over 90% of code re-use.
Got the "World Cup is over soon" blues? Here's an app that might cheer you up then, so make sure you use it these last few days!
From the developer:
Whether you’re supporting Spain, Holland, Germany or Uruguay, the WP7 Vuvuzela app’s for you. Pick your team and off you go. Enjoy the traditional, relaxing sound of the vuvuzela as you immerse yourself in the game. I realise it loses something in spontaneity give you don’t have a WP7 device (neither do I) and so have to run it on the emulator on your laptop. But hey, it’s a great emulator and you wouldn’t want to be seen with the iPhone version – terribly passe.
A small diversion form the apps posts going on here normally is this piece of news of a persistent database available for app developers.
Perst™ is an object-oriented, open source embedded database solution available for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Great news for developers planning to write business solution apps for WP7.
Written by the firm APPA Mundi from Birmingham England. Andy Wigley, a MS MVP, claims:
Using Perst for .NET, developers using Silverlight can now include true database management system features in their Silverlight applications, including adding persistence to this data by storing it in a container file in isolated storage
