Looking at the Microsoft BUILD live video on Windows 8 development

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2012

  @OZApps yes I think it was stated previously that Windows 8 support was possible but not a priority.
  And BTW you would need Windows 8 OS with Visual Studio 2012 (which I'm actually running on a VirtualBox on my MacMini )

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2012

  @ar2sawseen, I am talking about Windows *Phone* 8, not the desktop Windows 8 (keeping in line with the mobile development theme for Gideros) and I am painfully aware that I will need Windows
  
  When WP7 was released, I had a netbook just for office, etc and it could not run the emulator as it depended on DirectX, then I made a VM on the iMac gave it a good 4 GB RAM, loads of space, etc Did not work (at the time the emulator required a physical machine, did not work on a virtual machine) so I got a Windows Laptop, it was a good spec machine, still gave a lower Consumer Index than the VM running on the iMac. I know how painful it is...
  
  I was a MSDN subscriber and just cut down on that expense as it was not going anywhere.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  @OZApps I hope I'm not confusing it, but I think that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will share same core, so the apps will run on both of them with same code (or at least that was an initial idea).

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2012

  I hope it is that simple, it is very messy at the moment, but it was encouraging to hear the C++ libraries that was the impediment to including that with the OpenGL + Lua type solution.

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• Rickyngk Member

  November 2012

  yep, windows phone 8 sdk support c++ with directx.
  @atilim: do you have plan to support windows phone 8

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• phongtt Guru

  November 2012

  OMG they're too fast too dangerous: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/archives/2062
  
  @atilim please please please

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2012

  +10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  in my opinion for a mobile sdk like Gideros
  is "mandatory" supporting new mobile platforms like winPhone 8 (and his new and fresh store opportunity) before win/osx desktop support.
  
  in last days i'm really interessed in new win8/winphone8 store for his "new" big chances.
  
  hope @atilim and gideros stuff catch this opportunity.
  
  
  i know this is a new challenge...
  
  
  

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• phongtt Guru

  November 2012

  Okay, this is me on MS Tech Days 2012 in Ho Chi Minh city last week introducing our game Number Rush ported to Windows 8 with CreateJS ;;)

  

  

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  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  @phongtt wow! congrats!

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• john26 Maintainer

  November 2012

  I would also second this. I think it's actually more profitable for small developers to publish in less mature ecosystems than established ones which are dominated by big hitters with large advertising budgets. If there aren't many apps in a store it's easier for yours to get noticed. Therefore I would also encourage support for BlackBerry. Every time a game gets published it's featured on crackberry.com which BlackBerry users read religiously (that's like EVERY game getting featured on Touch Arcade). Sure Android and iOS are much bigger but visibility is much harder with so much competition. Millions more people may download millions more titles from Android and iOS but that's no good to me if they're all downloading Infinity Blade and Temple Run!
  
  IMO, the time when Indy devs can make money is when an ecosystem is just starting, NOT when it is mature and established. I think it's always been this way back to the days of the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
  
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2012

  @phongtt so how is you success at Windows Appstore? Was it worth it? How better or worse it is for Number Rush comparing to other stores?

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  @phongtt is already avaible on the store ?
  
  can't find here (windows 8 Desktop anyway...)

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2012

  @GregBUG http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/lv-LV/app/number-rush/a4be8f05-42ca-482e-9815-1fb0b3ea8a2b

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  @ar2rsawseen
  thanks for the link... but can't buy here (italy)
  
  why?

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  not official words on this subject (support for windows phone 8)
  
  also an answer like this:
  
  1. we do not care windows phone 8
  2. next release (!)
  3. 6 months
  4. over 1 year
  
  would be fine ...

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2012

  @Greg, knowing Atilim, his answer would be "Soon"

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• GregBUG Guru

  November 2012

  :-))

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2012

  With @Atilim's long absence from the forums, I feel there is something brewing...

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• flyingaudio Member

  January 2013

  @Atilim, do you have any thoughts on this yet?

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  +11111111111111111111111111111111111................
  
  
  

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• twisttap Member

  January 2013

  Atilim is sooooo quite on these days
  

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