Coltran Studios: Powered by Windows Phone (Featured Video)

When Simon Jäger, a developer, met Jason Zielinski, an artist, amazing things started to happen. They formed Coltran Studios, perhaps the world’s smallest international game studio, based in Sweden and Chicago. Learn how the two brought their ‘Cradle to the Grave’ mobile game to Windows Phone. Says Zielinski: ‘This is real, this is amazing, this is brilliant’.

Read more about creating your Windows Phone 8 games for Nokia Lumia:http://www.developer.nokia.com/windowsphone

Windows Phone Native C++ and DirectX – First Direct3D App, setting up Touch and Sensors (Featured Article)

Windows Phone Native C++ and DirectX – First Direct3D App, setting up Touch and Sensors by jumantyn

This week’s featured article shows us the basic steps of creating a first native Direct3D app. We take a look at the files created in the project template and also show you how to utilize touch input and Windows Phone sensors i.e. accelerometer and gyroscope.

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