Today Neil and I headed down to Microsoft London to spend a day with a device.
It went really well, we’ve not optimised the code at all and it still ran beautifully, XNA rocks!
The key takeaways from today’s session with a device?
- Don’t forget that you won’t be using a mouse to use your app on device, sounds obvious but remember you need a decent touch area.
- Spacing of clickable elements is really important as a result too, one of our menus had resume and restart close enough together that you could click both at the same time.
- You can be so much more productive with a device!
We managed to rewrite almost the whole interface for a finger interface, replace a bunch of the sound effects and get a lot more ideas.
We’ve got a bunch of items still on the todo list before we’re ready for launch, but we’ll be there!
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Well done, Tristan – you’ve made an old man very proud! (Not forgetting the rest of the team, of course).
It looks great and I hope it gets taken up by millions of new WP7 users!
All the best,
Andrew