Super Pong

I finished this a little while ago, but I never got round to posting about it. Let me present to you "Super Pong"; the most complex, intelligent and detailed game in existence. Okay it's not, it's pong. To be fair, it's pong with pretty colours, touch, mouse and keyboard control, and a pretty decent A.I....

Adding a Privacy Policy (and other settings) to an XNA Windows 8 game

One of the reasons my app failed to get certification is because of a lack of a privacy policy. More specifically, a lack of a privacy policy accessible in game. Some quick research showed up that this is an issue for a lot of initial releases, with many suggestions on how to fix the problem....

Touch in XNA in Monogame

So unsurprisingly the initial version of Super Pong was rejected on a selection of grounds which means going back to deal with them one by one. Some of them have been small changes, while some have involved me learning new way of doing things. Once I know I've solved the bugs and that my solutions...

Simplicity is the key

Through the last few posts there has been a theme of a simple game that can be published sooner or a complex game that has more that could go wrong. Seeing as usually we go with the second one and end up with either a half finished game waiting endlessly to be finished, or a...

Saving and loading your game, the Windows 8 way

While nervously awaiting the verdict on Cardiac Arrest and my application, I went about fixing some things that I was unable to fix beforehand. First and foremost, the main thing that broke when converting my XNA game to a Windows 8 app using MonoGame was my save game method. After some rooting around and playing with variables...