At the MIX keynote this morning, we announced the Windows Phone
Developer Tool Community Technology Preview, which includes Visual
Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and the
Windows Phone Emulator, and is available as a
free download. Get it now and start making awesome phone games!
Notes for Game Studio developers:
- Although this CTP
includes Game Studio 4.0 assemblies for Windows as well as Windows
Phone, it only supports the Reach profile. If you try to create a HiDef
game, you will get an error saying your hardware does not support HiDef
capabilities. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean your GPU sucks, just that
we don’t support HiDef in the CTP.
- The CTP
does not support deployment to Xbox 360.
- The
automatic scaling and rotation feature is not included in the CTP, so
for now you must always choose 480x800 portrait resolution. If you want
to make a landscape game, or render at some other resolution, the best
way is to draw your scene into a rendertarget, then rotate or scale
while copying it to the screen using SpriteBatch. This is not the best
approach for performance or battery life on actual phone hardware, but
don’t worry, you can take out the rendertarget code out once we release
final bits that support the image scaler.
Have fun!