Microsoft® XNA® Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now!

Chapter 18. Exploring Touch Input

• Touch input management.

• Simple touch input: creating a panic button.

• Simple touch input: creating a set of “touch drums.”

• Touch tracking.

• Touch event life cycle.

• Using touch to move game objects around.

• Creating a shuffleboard game.

Introduction

The Windows Phone device does not provide any gamepads you can access from an XNA program, but it is fitted with a touch screen you can use to get input from a player.

In this chapter, we’ll develop some games for Windows Phone 7 that use the touch panel. We’ll start with an upgrade to the drums we created in Chapter 7, and then move on to how we can use touch to allow a player to move items around the screen.

The Windows Phone Touch Screen

All Windows Phones are fitted with capacitive ...