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GameDev Blog Series!!!

Have you ever dreamt of publishing your own game? Bring your ideas to life with this 3-week blog series on how to build a game and publish it to the Windows 8 and Windows Phone Store! Whether you are an experienced or aspiring developer, everyone will find something useful from the myriad of content that will be coming your way. Games are both the most downloaded and the #1 category in revenue, so don’t miss out on this fun and exciting opportunity!

Get your game on with the following topics! Links will be updated as the content is published:

 

Date

Author

Blog Post Link

18th March

Doris Chen

Make Windows 8 games with Construct 2

18th March

Amanda Lange

Porting My GameMaker App to Windows 8

20th March

Doris Chen

Introduction to Unity & How to Build and Port Unity Games to Windows Store and Windows Phone

21st March

Dave Voyles

Overview of professional game development tools

24th March

Michael Cummings

Introduction to Monogame 3.2 for Windows Phone and Windows 8

25th March

Tobiah Marks

Free to Play Game Design: How to not do it wrong

26th March

Amanda Lange

Graphic Design tips for Game Apps

27th March

Tobiah Marks

You’ve made a game, now what? Marketing and Monetization Strategies

1st April

Michael Cummings

Project Spark

4th April

Michael Cummings

 

Unity Game Dev Tips

2nd April

Daniel Egan

Creating a Character for your game

7th April

Adam Tuliper

Why and How to port your Unity game to Windows

8th April

Jason Fox

Adding a Trial Experience in Your Windows Game Built with Unity

9th April

Nathalie Goh-Livorness

Intro to Corona SDK

10th April

Nathalie Goh-Livorness

Series Recap

 

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2014
    This is perfect. Thank you on behalf of myself and all the other indie devs who will benefit from this!

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2014
    Thanks for including MonoGame! It's much better than nothing after XNA 5 had been canned.

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2014
    I just released another game in the XBOX 360 using XNA (these are both Microsoft products). That makes three games. XNA is so easy to use and so powerful! I will miss this framework.

  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2014
    Unity Game Dev Tips link is not working!

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2014
    It seems as if lot of the links are wrong or down.

  • Anonymous
    July 31, 2014
    Very cool blog! Have you heard that we are releasing Poser Game Dev? Might be something to check out smsi.me/1xFAY7l