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
This is a helper app for all Muslims, it can help you with keeping track of the time, even if you are out traveling. It also utilizes Bing maps to help you locate a Mosque in the city you are in.
Here's a game in a very early version, the developer says it's in pre-alpha.
I think you are supposed to collect fruit that the monkey's throws at you. It looks like this. Unfortunately I can't link the vid as the developer hasn't allowed it on my domain.
The XBox game Shot 1UP is being ported to Windows Phone 7. It's a pure shoot-em up and looks like it could give even the most hardened action game player a proper seizure!
Check the vid out below for action of the XBox version.
A word game where you get 7 letters (one is locked but I presume based on the level of play there are more or less letters) but you need to spell that longest word you can with the letters you have to beat the clock. Spelling words that are longer or doing it faster adds more time to the clock.
Currently in development, NextWar: The Quest for Earth for Windows Phone 7 devices is a port of NextWar for the Xbox 360. It is slated to be released with the official launch of Windows Phone 7 this coming holiday season.
