Guardian is Certified, Mostly
It appears that Guardian made it through the WP7 certification testing. It’s now ready to signing, which in theory means it’ll be in the marketplace within a few hours. I’ll try to get a final video posted within the next day or so.
After which I can go back to writing more useful posts.
WP7 Analytics
Ben Kane has a great walkthrough for setting up Preemptive’s (currently) free WP7 analytics. If yours isn’t working, this is the place to start.
Incidentally, my problem was forgetting to add ID_CAP_NETWORKING to the manifest.
Guardian Menus
Spruced up the menus quite a bit with some floaty asteroids instead of just the raw text. Looks much nicer I think. The todo list is pretty much empty now. Mostly some final balancing and play testing left to go, and some art work for the various icons and other app store images. If all goes well over the next couple of days it’ll be complete and ready to test when I hopefully get my hardware on Monday.
User Interface for Guardian High Scores and Challenges
Here is my attempt at using XNA to duplicate some of the UI functionality on WP7. Well, not really duplicate so much as “create a passing resemblance to”.
The menu is pretty boring. I’ve been trying to come up with a good idea to make it interesting, and think I finally have something that will be worth the effort. That’ll probably be the next movie.
The first WP7 phones are supposed to be released in the U.S. on November 8th – just one week away. Here’s hoping Guardian works well on the hardware without needing too many optimizations.