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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? 

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!! 

Windows 8 Game Development FTW [NAME] [TITLE] [ORGNIZATION] [BLOG] [TWITTER] 

C# developers Unity – most popular cross platform game development tool for 2D and 3D games 

C# developers XAML – develop games from scratch using Visual Studio and Blend 

C# developers MonoGame – cross platform implementation of the XNA 4.0 framework 

GameMaker - family of products that caters to entry-level developers and seasoned game development professionals to create cross platform games HTML5/JS developers 

GameSalad – create cross platform games rapidly with no code HTML5/JS developers 

Construct2 - cross platform game development for beginners HTML5/JS developers 

CreateJS – suite of modular libraries and tools which work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5 HTML5/JS developers 

ImpactJS - JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning cross platform HTML5 Games HTML5/JS developers 

Canvas – and of course you can develop your game from scratch using the Canvas element in HTML5. HTML5/JS developers 

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 

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 

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++ 

UX Apps Games Monetization