Windows Phone 8

The guys and gals over at Digital Rune have announced that their game engine now supports...

• Windows Desktop (DirectX 9)
• Windows Desktop (DirectX 11)*
• Windows Store (ARM and x86)*
• Windows Phone 7.1, 7.8
• Windows Phone 8*
• Xbox 360

Mostly due to MonoGame.

They just posted a video of their game engine showing how it render's Crytek's Sponza Model, on some Windows 8 (both ARM and x86) devices and Windows Phone devices.
Here is the video :

Gabriel Isenberg has ported his game Galactic Fire, a tilt based shooter, from Window Phone 7, to Windows Phone 8 and it now available on the Store.

@roguecode has been doing some very cool stuff with Netduino, Windows Phone 8 and MonoGame.

This post shows how to use the Netduino to manipulate a 3D object on a Windows Phone 8 device.

A video of it in action can be seen here:

Listen to Lee Stott (Microsoft UK Evangelist) talk about what options you have when developing for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. MonoGame is mentioned quite a few times. This presentation took place at part of the recent Cambridge Game developers meetup.

Skulls of the Shogun, developed by 17bit and one of our new showcase entries, is now available on both the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 stores.

This game is published by Microsoft Studios on the Xbox, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, possibly the first MonoGame powered game to be published my Microsoft and hopefully not the last :).

As some of you know, MonoGame uses SharpDX under the hood for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Under Windows Phone 8's .NET runtime, Microsoft does not allow the use of [DllImport] so that you can directly access an existing native function from a DLL.

If you care about getting the best experience on Windows Phone 8 then please up vote this DllImport request, which asks Microsoft to allow [DllImport] under Windows Phone 8, and makes life so much easier for the SharpDX team.