Windows 8 Game Dev landscape

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1. UX Apps Games Monetization
2. Windows 8 Why Now? The largest opportunity for today’s Generation of Application Developers Windows 8 ships on October 26, 2012. 630M+ Windows 7 licenses have been sold to date – all upgradeable to Windows 8. Windows 8 represents the single biggest developer opportunity for any platform. Millions of developers are taking advantage of this opportunity. Will you?
3. Demand • Most titles in the Windows Phone apps store are entertainment and utility apps • Customers are downloading games more than any other type of app and are willing to spend money for the privilege • There is an opportunity here to give the customer what they want More Cowbell!!
4. Windows 8 Game Development FTW [NAME] [TITLE] [ORGNIZATION] [BLOG] [TWITTER]
5. C# developers Unity – most popular cross platform game development tool for 2D and 3D games
6. C# developers XAML – develop games from scratch using Visual Studio and Blend
7. C# developers MonoGame – cross platform implementation of the XNA 4.0 framework
8. GameMaker - family of products that caters to entry-level developers and seasoned game development professionals to create cross platform games HTML5/JS developers
9. GameSalad – create cross platform games rapidly with no code HTML5/JS developers
10. Construct2 - cross platform game development for beginners HTML5/JS developers
11. CreateJS – suite of modular libraries and tools which work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5 HTML5/JS developers
12. ImpactJS - JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning cross platform HTML5 Games HTML5/JS developers
13. Canvas – and of course you can develop your game from scratch using the Canvas element in HTML5. HTML5/JS developers
14. C++ developers DirectX - DirectX development offers the greatest power to developers where as the developer you combine programming logic, the DirectX API, and High Level Shading Language (HLSL) programs, together with audio and 3-D visual assets to present a rich, interactive multimedia experience
15. C++ developers Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 (UDK ) – a complete professional framework that provides tools for creating high-quality games and apps, movies and advanced 3D visualizations and simulations
16. C++ developers • CoCos2d-X is a game engine framework based on Cocos2d-iPhone, which consists of expanding supported platforms, with multiple choice of programming languages that share the same API structure. • Programmers can choose to use their preferred language to achieve their targeted platform Native branch written in C++
17. UX Apps Games Monetization