Windows 8 / RT |OT|

Over at Gamasutra I've written a big long blog post about my experience doing some design for Windows 8 specific stuff in Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride:

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanLang...opment_Of_Fruit_Ninja_And_Jetpack_Joyride.php

In the article I discuss how we designed the awesome snap view stuff in the game, from mockups to the final version, like this:

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As well as designing up the different tiles that appear in the game.

Give it a look, I enjoy writing stuff like this from behind the scenes, would love to do more :)
 
LukasTaves said:
What about game saves? I think they are tied to the account, can you access them with your new account?
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I noticed this. Everything is tied to the live account. When I redownloaded Angry Birds in Space, it put me right back to my last played level.

Jetpack Joyride gave me all my gear, but reset my play stats and missions.
 
Rlan, I know you work for halfbrick. Are you guys aware that if the game doesn't connect to Live, it doesn't let you play with any of your stuff? When my power went out, I fired up JetPack Joyride and all my stuff was gone. Same with Fruit Ninja. Whereas with Angry Birds I could play and beat new levels without restarting.
 
Rlan said:
Over at Gamasutra I've written a big long blog post about my experience doing some design for Windows 8 specific stuff in Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride:

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanLang...opment_Of_Fruit_Ninja_And_Jetpack_Joyride.php

In the article I discuss how we designed the awesome snap view stuff in the game, from mockups to the final version, like this:

snapviewmockups.png


As well as designing up the different tiles that appear in the game.

Give it a look, I enjoy writing stuff like this from behind the scenes, would love to do more :)
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Awesome. That docking is one of my favourite things, great to see it can be utilized in games too :)
 
SeanR1221 said:
Rlan, I know you work for halfbrick. Are you guys aware that if the game doesn't connect to Live, it doesn't let you play with any of your stuff? When my power went out, I fired up JetPack Joyride and all my stuff was gone. Same with Fruit Ninja. Whereas with Angry Birds I could play and beat new levels without restarting.
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I'll send that onto the guys, thanks for that!
 
Does anyone else have the problem where everything on the internet works, in metro and outside of metro, but you can't sign into things like Twitter clients, Flickr on the photos app, etc.?
 
Good news: whatever caused the Netflix app to crash at startup has fixed itself, nice.

Bad news: XBOX sign-in stopped working, not sure what happened there. It'll ask me to try signing in with a browser, closing whichever app I'm running and starting the app again but no joy.
 
MmmSkyscraper said:
Good news: whatever caused the Netflix app to crash at startup has fixed itself, nice.

Bad news: XBOX sign-in stopped working, not sure what happened there. It'll ask me to try signing in with a browser, closing whichever app I'm running and starting the app again but no joy.
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Boom.

Happened to me. Read my post history in this thread.

Ended up having to create a new microsoft identity.
 
Is there a way to change the default location where applications install to? I don't want everything to install in the program files folder on my SSD
 
Yoga 13 owners, do you have any issues with fan noise? I'm looking to pick one of these up and I've heard some complaints about it online
 
SeanR1221 said:
Hey Opus, I don't know if you saw my last post...
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Well both options lead to removing the hidden recovery partition. You would not be able to recreate this.

From personal experience I don't think it's an issue. I've passed on several laptops that I've removed the recovery partition from, the extra space is appreciated.

If you do go on to sell it just do a clean install of Windows 8 and pass along the Product Key.
 
Opus Angelorum said:
Well both options lead to removing the hidden recovery partition. You would not be able to recreate this.

From personal experience I don't think it's an issue. I've passed on several laptops that I've removed the recovery partition from, the extra space is appreciated.

If you do go on to sell it just do a clean install of Windows 8 and pass along the Product Key.
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Where do I find the product key at? Or do I have to request it from MS?
 
Well, that's certainly new behavior for the notification pop up.

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That doesn't seem like something Microsoft would approve, or does it?
 
Nextgen Reader feels like it loads articles faster than the google reader website, which is awesome. Although the startup/sync is certainly a slower.
 
Damn! I was all ready to do this, when I realize my fiancés old external HDD is a old piece of crap with not enough space on it.

Looks like I'm postponing until Black Friday when I can buy a 2TB HDD.
 
i saw someone else post here about how they like Win8 much better now then the preview release. I must say i do too, but i think its pretty clear why.

Windows 8 with a mouse and on a desktop was in absolutely no way appealing to me.
Windows 8 on an ultrabook/laptop with a multi-touch touchpad with gestures is really really good
 
Jason Raize '75 - '04 said:
So how are you guys liking the new UI
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I really like it now that I've got used to it. I do wish they'd left Aero in though, because even though the UI looks nice and clean, I still prefer the glass look of Aero.

On an unrelated note, I don't know if it's a bug, but when you play demos of games that have achievements and then uninstall them, they still show up on the live tile of your Games app and in the game activity list of the app itself, much like XBLA demos used to many moons ago on the 360. Hopefully they change that.
 
Stephen_drewz said:
Does start8 disable the standard windows 8 start menu or can you use both?
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You can use both and there is quite a lot that you can customize. The more I use it the more I question why Microsoft did not implement Windows 8 like this.

Plan on purchasing it, but waiting until the trial ends to see if MS tries to squash the app :P
 
I like the lack of Aero. I set the colour of the taskbar and windows to dark dark grey and it looks very very classy now.
 
LukasTaves said:
So... you can map this to a SD card and have the apps installed there?
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Doesn't seem like a good idea to start installing applications to removable storage when that isn't officially supported. Who knows what the OS will do if that storage isn't there.
 
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