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[Rlan]

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:

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

 

[SeanR1221]

What about game saves? I think they are tied to the account, can you access them with your new account?

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.

 

[SeanR1221]

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.

 

[derFeef]

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:

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

Awesome. That docking is one of my favourite things, great to see it can be utilized in games too

 

[Rlan]

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.

I'll send that onto the guys, thanks for that!

 

[kinggroin]

What about game saves? I think they are tied to the account, can you access them with your new account?

Lost them. Its all good though, I wasn't very far in any of them.

 

[BocoDragon]

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.?

 

[Lynn616]

NextGen Reader is my favourite news reader so far. If they add Live tiles I will buy it. Feed Reader has Live tiles but is weird to use and read.

I like it but will not buy till they have snap view.

 

[SeanR1221]

I'll send that onto the guys, thanks for that!

Awesome!

Now release Age of Zombies on the app store please :-D

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

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.

 

[Damon Bennet]

The creator decides that afaik.

The developer decides what countries to release the app in.

So why would a developer decide to make his app available to less people?

 

[fluffydelusions]

So why would a developer decide to make his app available to less people?

From experience with Android a lot of people will leave negative comments/ratings if your app is not in their particular language for one.

 

[derFeef]

I like it but will not buy till they have snap view.

Just noticed, yeah that's a bummer.
Live tiles and snap are essential for those apps.

 

[kinggroin]

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.

Boom.

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

Ended up having to create a new microsoft identity.

 

[Divvy]

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

 

[Dead Prince]

Thinking about getting this. unsure if there are any reviews. Newegg has it for 849. set a pricematch to amazon. hopefully it goes through. then i can price match it at best buy. lol.


http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model-reviews/NX.M0SAA.003

or just get that sony touch screen enabled laptop.

 

[Lynn616]

Just noticed, yeah that's a bummer.
Live tiles and snap are essential for those apps.

The app said those are both features that are coming soon. So they are working on it. Will be a top app for me I think.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

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

Windows Applications:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/

Metro Apps:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/w8itprogeneral/thread/f5e33ac9-beab-4b99-b3ca-7cb5e6f415e4

 

[PG2G]

oops, i'm late

 

[Divvy]

Windows Applications:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/

Metro Apps:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/w8itprogeneral/thread/f5e33ac9-beab-4b99-b3ca-7cb5e6f415e4

Thanks!

 

[SeanR1221]

Hey Opus, I don't know if you saw my last post...

Ok ok, I feel semi confident now. What would be the better option incase I screw up, A or B?

What is the better option to have ready incase I need to restore to factory settings to sell someday in the future?

 

[bedlamite]

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

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Hey Opus, I don't know if you saw my last post...

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.

 

[surly]

Has anyone tried creating a custom refresh image yet and if so, how much room does it take up?

 

[SeanR1221]

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.

Where do I find the product key at? Or do I have to request it from MS?

 

[Totakeke]

Well, that's certainly new behavior for the notification pop up.

That doesn't seem like something Microsoft would approve, or does it?

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Where do I find the product key at? Or do I have to request it from MS?

Well there are ways to find it (keyfinder software), but usually there is a sticker on the PC/Laptop itself or along with the documentation.

Has anyone tried creating a custom refresh image yet and if so, how much room does it take up?

Well a base install image (.iso) is 2GB.

 

[SeanR1221]

Ok thanks. I just don't want to screw myself over resale value wise with this.

 

[Totakeke]

Nextgen Reader feels like it loads articles faster than the google reader website, which is awesome. Although the startup/sync is certainly a slower.

 

[SeanR1221]

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.

 

[Robobandit]

Thx.

Is there a good Youtube app in the store?

Look at Youtube RT..

It is a really nice app, imo.

 

[Frustrated_me]

Yeah, I love that. Is Tweetro better than MetroTwit?

I havent tried Metrotwit, went with the higher ratings

 

[gcubed]

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

 

[Totakeke]

Look at Youtube RT..

It is a really nice app, imo.

I still like Youtube + better, any reason why'd you choose Youtube RT over +?

 

[Meus Renaissance]

So how are you guys liking the new UI

 

[Stephen_drewz]

Does start8 disable the standard windows 8 start menu or can you use both?

 

[Divvy]

So how are you guys liking the new UI

I'm quite enjoying it. Very nice and clean and being able to customize the tiles is really nice.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Does start8 disable the standard windows 8 start menu or can you use both?

The Windows 8 start menu is included in the Start8 menu, it appears as a pinned program.

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/images/features/accessible_full.png

 

[surly]

So how are you guys liking the new UI

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.

 

[Dunlop]

Does start8 disable the standard windows 8 start menu or can you use both?

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

 

[Frustrated_me]

So how are you guys liking the new UI

Really enjoying it, one of my favorite features of Windows 8.

 

[Divvy]

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.

 

[Robobandit]

I still like Youtube + better, any reason why'd you choose Youtube RT over +?

I haven't even looked at youtube + ..

I tried Youtube RT and I liked it.. so I bought it.

 

[bob page]

Edit: wrong thread

 

[Azih]

So any word on wheter Metro Apps can be installed anywhere other than the drive Windows is on?

 

[LukasTaves]

Windows Applications:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/

Metro Apps:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/w8itprogeneral/thread/f5e33ac9-beab-4b99-b3ca-7cb5e6f415e4

So... you can map this to a SD card and have the apps installed there?

 

[SCHUEY F1]

So how are you guys liking the new UI

I like it a lot. I have been using it since the first preview and it just keeps getting better.

 

[Azih]

So... you can map this to a SD card and have the apps installed there?

Ah man, screwing around with regedit for the Metro apps

 

[PG2G]

So... you can map this to a SD card and have the apps installed there?

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.

 

[LukasTaves]

Ah man, screwing around with regedit for the Metro apps

Just hypothetically

Could be a way to buy a 32GB tablet and not be limited by storage