2 Screens and A Cloud, Without Being Cut! An MMO in 45 Minutes DEV305

WHO WE ARE

Richard Banks Luke Drumm Aaron Powell Steven Nagy

WHAT’S THIS SESSION ALL ABOUT?

Not Quite “3 Screens and A Cloud”

Design, Architecture, Sharp Edges, Tips & Techniques

Team Development

Screen 1: Windows Phone 7

Screen 2: Windows PC

Cloud: Windows Azure

Beyond the Game: Web

Let’s Play!!

ORGANISING A TEAM

Agile Process

Weekly Planning via Skype

TFS 2010

Continuous Builds

Wiki

INITIAL CONCEPT

Sketch Flow (WP7)

Balsamiq (Web)

BUILDING IT: TOOLSET

Windows Azure SDK 1.4 XNA Game Studio 4.0 WP 7.1 ‘Mango’ SDK ASP.NET MVC 3 Portable Library Tools

NSubstitute MvvmLight Autofac Amplify JS Knockout JS RestSharp SnowMaker

BUILDING IT: ARCHITECTURE

Windows Client (XNA) Phone 7 Client (Silverlight & XNA) Holes & Stats Game State Updates Grouping Login ASP.NET MVC3 JSON Services Game Engine Data Persistence (Table Storage) Web Site JSON

BUILDING IT: WINDOWS XNA CLIENT

Model Creation

Lawn State

BUILDING IT: NETWORK COMMUNICATION

Trade-offs

Azure Security

Phone Latency

Movement Prediction

Minimising Traffic Volume

BUILDING IT: GAME STATE

Who’s the Boss?

Simulation Engine

Portable Library Tools

BUILDING IT: WEB SERVICES

Services Support All Clients

REST & JSON

Portable Library Tools

BUILDING IT: WP7 CLIENT

Silverlight & XNA

Device ID Usage

MvvmLight & RestSharp

Running Multiple Emulators

BUILDING IT: TABLE STORAGE

Why not SQL Azure?

Table Storage Repository

SnowMaker Id Generator

BUILDING IT: GAME COMPLETION

Azure Messages and Queues

Azure Worker Roles

BUILDING IT: THE WEB SITE

Extending the Game Beyond the Game

Single Page Web Application

JavaScript Libraries

BUILDING IT: WHAT ELSE WOULD WE DO?

Graphic Design!

Richer Gameplay Challenge

Mower Customisation and Levelling/Progression

2D Game Replays via Canvas

Sharding & Game Servers

Screen 3: Xbox 360 Client

Security and Hack Prevention

Voice Chat

Automated Azure Deployment

… and muchmuchmuchmuch more

QUESTION TIME!

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