Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 18. Building a Simple Game

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Game physics made simple

• Detecting collisions

• Using accelerometer-controlled movement

• Adding the challenges

Windows Phone isn’t just about applications; it is also a great gaming device. Creating games can be done using either the XNA Framework or Silverlight. Although learning everything you need to build a full-featured multiplayer game is beyond the scope of this book, by the end of this hour, you will understand the core concepts needed to build a basic game that allows you to tilt and rotate the phone to get a ball into a hole while avoiding a hazard area in the middle of the playing field.

Game Physics Made Simple

At this point, you might be saying to yourself, “All ...