Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2 – Microsoft Press #yam

English: The windows phone 7 logo.
English: The windows phone 7 logo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The second preview edition of Charles Petzold’s Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Cross-platform C# programming for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone is now available for download! Below you’ll find the download link and the ebook’s full Introduction. Enjoy!

via Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2 – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Unity Game Starter Kit for Windows Store and Windows Phone Store games #yam

Vasura is a top to bottom scrolling shooter.
Vasura is a top to bottom scrolling shooter. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have created a simple game that you can download, play with and submit to the store – both to Windows Store and Windows Phone Store – reching millions of users world wide. It contains the basic functionality of a 2d sidescrolling shooter game.

This game starts simple, then after level 3 – more enemies will come, and after level 4 there is a possibility that a harder enemy that takes two shots to kill will spawn.

The game supports input of touch, mouse, keyboard and the xbox controller just connect it to a surce or a computer and play!.

This game is pretty simple, but with your modifications to it, it can be a totally new game with much more content.

via Unity Game Starter Kit for Windows Store and Windows Phone Store games | digitalerr0r.