Zune Power

I've been playing with XNA on Zune, porting a little sprite toolikt from StarLight onto it. For those of you who haven't played with the Zune, it is basically an ipod that you can run XNA on. I managed to get 400 sprites with transparency bouncing around quite happily. I'll post the code on VerySillyGames when I've finished, but this means that you can get quite complex displays on the tiny platform with no problems at all.

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[JDog]

When porting a game to the zune, is it advised to have all of your code and game scalable, main reason is people have different screen sizes, so for this reason is there a command that allows the coder to reference teh width and height of the screen its displaying on ? like...

this.Height;
this.Width;

[Rob]

Ah. I did all this in the original code. I have methods that do the scaling for me. I just say things like "I want this sprite to be a 15th the width of the display" and it scales and preserves the aspect ratio. That meant that I could move the code with minimal changes. I cover this in the book as I remember.

[JDog]

Ok, that'll be something to look forward too. Its arrived at Waterstones aswell, so I simply need to go and pick it up.