Windows 8 and MonoGame Presentation at Staffordshire University

Lee Stott
Microsoft
@lee_stott
LeeStott@microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

Agenda
 Overview of Windows
 Games Opportunity

 Porting of Code with MonoGame

 Demos of MonoGame + Windows 8

 Questions

 Portfolios

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2011/12/06/announcing-the-new-windows-store.aspx
1bn

Source: IDC, March 2012
690m

Source: IDC, March 2012
60m

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100

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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Consumer Enterprise

All-up Windows Annual Sales Volume Worldwide (based on historical trends) – Consumer/Enterprise (millions)
Source: IDC Worldwide Windows Client Operating Environment 2011–2015 Forecast

Why Games.... Demand
 Most titles in the Windows
Phone apps store are
entertainment and utility apps
 Customers are downloading
more games than any other type
of app
 Customers are willing to spend
money for the privilege
 There is an opportunity here to
give customers what they
want

Type of Games....

 Freemium games do better than paid games
 Action games are the best bet to turn a quick buck
 Strategy games dominate long-term
 Simulation games account for the second largest share.
 Opportunity to carve out a niche ( grow your fan base )
* Taken from http://www.appannie.com/blog/mobile-games-that-last/

Microsoft DreamSpark provides no-cost access to
Microsoft designer and development tools for verified
students and educators around the world, to support and
advance their learning and skills through technical design,
technology, math, science and engineering activities.

https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=26

You have your great
ideas and exciting
game designs…

 Lack of time.

 Lack of belief.

 Lack of support.

 Lack of motivation.

http://bit.ly/GJ_GreatGames

Key Ideas for Windows 8 Casual Games

http://bit.ly/GJ_NavDesign

A great Windows 8 game will
make sure that navigation
between all experiences is a fast,
fluid, and delightful experience


• Makes users first experience a
complete one.

• Provides a great mechanism for
providing users with updates/fresh
content

http://bit.ly/GJ_SemZoom

• Semantic Zoom allows a user
to get a different view of your
data
• Navigate between different
levels

• Quickly show unlocked content,
recently released levels, or new
achievements


• Great way to keep your game
as front-and-centre
experience.

• Can use the top app bar as
navigation home

http://bit.ly/GJ_CommDesign

• Will the control be used very
frequently?

• Is the control crucial to the
playing of the game?

http://bit.ly/GJ_Touch

• Users approach tablets and
touchscreens in a variety of
ways

• Windows 8 accommodates a
multitude of interaction
variations

http://bit.ly/GJ_StateMgmt

Game gets 5s to handle Game is not notified
suspend before termination

User
Launches
Game
Game notified when resumed

Splash
screen

Additional Ideas for your game….

http://bit.ly/GJ_LiveTiles

• At-a-glance information delivery in a natural, attractive
format

• Draw the user back into the app with a single tap with
fresh, tailored content via Live Tiles

• Send tile updates even when your app isn’t running

• Secondary tiles provide an entry point into a specific
experience within your app

• Scenarios: game-play status, latest leaderboard
positions, multi-player messages, game news

http://bit.ly/GJ_Toast

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•

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http://bit.ly/GJ_Contracts

Provides users with a familiar and
natural way to search for items
across game.

Scenarios:

• A friend to start a multiplayer
game against.

• A user name on a leader
board.

• An achievement.

• A specific level in a game with
many levels.


Provides a way to connect the
player of your game to their social
networks, friends, or other apps.

From your game:

• Sharing game levels, high
scores, screenshots, custom
objects etc.

To your game:

• Receiving in-game content,
images, video etc.


The settings charm provides a
familiar and consistent way to
modify an apps settings

More settings menus can be
added for account management
or game specific menus.

Scenarios:

User-account info, help content,
control mappings, notification
settings, about app info, support
info etc.


This allows your game to share it’s
content with other apps seamlessly and
consistently.

• The file picker makes it easy to
organize content. You can also
access content from other apps

Scenarios:

• Exporting images from game to
start screen background,

• using music from music app for
game.


Extend your experience beyond
Windows 8 and push your
content to devices on your local
network.

The ‘PlayTo’ feature allows relevant
controls to be accessed on the
first device without compromising
the display on the other.

http://bit.ly/GJ_Splash

• Many games may take longer
than the expected couple of
seconds to load.

• If that's true of your game,
ensure that you provide some
sort of indication to the user
that the game is actively
loading


• Communicate to users when
the game is in a paused state:

• removing them from the in-
game experience and putting
them back in the central hub

• or by presenting a pause
overlay or pause screen


Leaderboards are a crucial
component for game enthusiasts.

The competition factor keeps
users engaged in your game and
encourages other users in their
network to return and maintain
their rankings.

Utilise location services to access
local standings.


Drive engagement beyond
standard gameplay with
achievements.

Utilize weight, color and size to
distinguish between items that are
close to being completed.

http://bit.ly/GJ_RoamingData

• Most people have more than one Windows PC.

• Make your game a continuous and consistent
user experience across all their Windows 8 PCs

Roaming Scenarios:

• Game settings and configuration

• App licenses and in-app purchases from the
Windows Store

http://bit.ly/GJ_WAMS

• Windows Azure Mobile
Services makes it incredibly
easy to connect scalable cloud
backend to your games.

• Easily store structured data in
the cloud that can span both
devices and users,

• Integrate it with user
authentication

• Send out updates to clients
via push notifications

http://bit.ly/GJ_W8Store

Designed for discovery
• Spotlight, Recommend,
Browse/Filter, Search
• IE10 & Deep links

Unprecedented reach
• Global reach: 200+ markets,
• 100+ languages

Flexible business models
• Free, paid, in-app, trials
• 3rd party in-app & advertising
support

Pricing
• Developers control pricing
• Up to 80% revenue share

XNA 4.0 Supported Platforms

XNA

.NET 4.0

DirectX 9/11

Windows Phone 7 Windows Xbox 360

MonoGame is an open source implementation of the XNA framework that
allows developers to port XNA games to platforms that don’t have Microsoft-
supported XNA runtime solutions.
For instance, MonoGame provides a Windows 8 Store application runtime.
SharpDX is an open source project delivering a managed DirectX API for
Windows, including Windows 8 Store apps.
Microsoft doesn’t endorse MonoGame, SharpDX, Unity or other third party
development solutions in any official way, we fully support a rich and varied
array of runtime libraries and tools that make game development easier.

Brief History of MonoGame?
Project Started in June 2009 as XNATouch by Jalfx
Dec 2009 – v0.7 (2D and iOS only)
Oct 2011 - v2.0 ( Added 2 platforms, Renamed to MonoGame)
Dec 2011 - v2.1
Feb 2012 – (3D codedrop from Flying Dev Studios)
March 2012 – 2.5 (Tom and Sickhead Games)
June 2012 -2.5.1 (11,000 downloads)

October 2012 – 3.0 BETA(available now!)
• MonkeySpace MonoGame Annual Conference
• Raspberry Pi Support announced
• Windows Phone 8 Support announced including IAP
• Presented at Microsoft //BUILD conference
• MonoGame content published at MSDN Channel 9,
• MonoGame and Windows 8 at Hull University - Three Things Games

November 2012 MonoGame presented at State of Play Conference

December 2012 OUYA Support announced

So What is MonoGame?
OpenSource implementation of XNA 4 API
 2D SpriteBatch
 3D (APIs and Model Loading)
 Load Existing XNA compiled assets (*.xnb)
 Sound and Music
 Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Touch, Gamepad)
 Effects (Basic Effects & Some Custom Shaders)

Write Once, Play Everywhere

Contributing individuals
Oliver Brown Dean Ellis Tophathacker Koda Turtle Games
David Lively Carl Ådahl
Tom Spilman Niel
Clancey Marshall Ward
Grapes
Nezz Randolph Burt Espes Danzel
Javier Fernandez
Nicolas Coderre
Thiago Pastor Adrian Batzill Inverness
Edward Rudd Akshay Arora
Andre Esteve
Raistlinthewiz David Leaver Jeff Johnson
James Lupiani
Christian Zangl Jorge Cantón Ferrero
Mgroves
Steve 'Sly' Williams Geoff Norton Jordan Phillips
Tom Gooding Dominique Louis Jamesford42 Taskbit
Tapani Värjölä Deathcradle
Jeremy Bell
Lukas Jadaml
Ádám L. Juhász Ray Batts
Renaud Bédard Nicolas Leonard
Jhllnd Kenneth Pouncey


The Future
 Embracing XNA: APIs, Shaders etc
 Extend: New platforms, APIs, Features
 Enhancements and fixes
Content Pipeline
Visual Studio Integration
MonoDevelop Integration
 Better documentation
Getting Started Guides
 Platform specific best practices
 More Video tutorials

Very High Code Reuse
Some users report 95% code reuse!!

MonoGame and Windows

MonoGame

.NET 4.5 .NET 4.0

SharpDX Direct X

Commercial games we know of
iOS*
 30+
Android* *Xamarin compilers makes it possible for MonoGame titles to reach iOS and Android users
Additional licenses are required for other platforms Windows is FREE.
 15+
MacOS, Linux
 10+
Windows 8
• 20+
Chrome
 Bastion

Games
Infinite Flight
http://flyingdevstudio.blogspot.co.uk/

Games
ARMED!
http://www.armedgame.com/

http://www.sickheadgames.com/

Games
Draw a Stickman – EPIC Adventure
http://epic.drawastickman.com/

Games
Tin Man Can (first Chillingo game)
http://www.redcandygames.com/

Games
Skulls of the Shogon (our first Microsoft Studios game)
http://www.skullsoftheshogun.com/

Things to think about
It's Being used in AAA games
It's Extendable
It's Growing(games, developers, platforms)
It's Now supported by Microsoft
It's Currently the only way to take XNA Windows 8 for FREE
It's OpenSource
It's Active
Lots of examples


More details on MonoGame
References
Follow Twitter @MonoGameTeam

irc
Channel : #monogame
Server : irc.gnome.org

YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/MonoGameTeam

Site :
http://monogame.net
Copyright 2012 © Xamarin Inc. All rights reserved

Porting to MonoGame
Project Setup
 From scratch : ~30-60 minutes
 With Templates : ~15 minutes

Platform Specific
 Resolutions
 Sound/Video


Summary
 Games are the #1 download and #1 money making app category
 Pick your niche, grow from there
 XNA and MonoGame provides a solution to get your existing XNA assets and games
running as a Windows 8 Store App
 MonoGame provides a cross platform solution so that you can leverage your existing
XNA development effort, across multiple marketplaces to develop a portfolio of
games across platforms
 Follow the certification guidelines (WACK) to make your app Windows 8 Store ready

Develop a great portfolio, publish apps to store :
• Register for a Windows 8 Developer Store account
DreamSpark members have FREE Windows Store subscription!
www.dreamspark.com

• Attend a free training camp and training
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/windows8/

Getting students to develop portfolio

1.Build & publish your original & unique app.
2.Register yourself on the UK App Builder Reward Programme website which will be coming very
soon.
3.Claim points by telling us about the app you’ve published and we’ll award points to you
accordingly.
4.Redeem your points for a range of fantastic prizes and gadgets.

Build & publish an app between Monday 4th Feb 2013 and Tuesday
30th Apr 2013 to be eligible for points you can redeem for rewards.

http://www.appbuilder-rewards.co.uk/

1. Develop and publish your Windows Store and/or Windows Phone app.

2. register and sign in to the UK App Builder Reward Programme

3. Submit your app in the ‘claim points’ section.
Be sure to include the name, URL of your app. In order to claim bonus points, be sure to include your Windows
Azure details and/or existing Windows Phone or Windows Store app details if ported.


http://www.ubelly.com/gaming
Building Windows 8 Games

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/windows8/
Windows 8 UK Camps and Training Events

http://dev.windows.com
Windows 8 developer resources

http://dev.windowsphone.com
Windows Phone 8 developer resources

http:// www.imaginecup.com
Imagine Cup

http://www.monogame.net
MonoGame

http://monogame.codeplex.com
MonoGame Installer for Windows

http://www.github.com/mono/MonoGame
Git Resource

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