Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 19. Adding Polish to Your Game

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Adding gameplay

• Enhancing the ball-dropping experience

• Adding haptic and audible feedback

Playing games with a rich user experience, such as animations, haptic, and audio feedback, is important to most avid mobile gamers.

Within this hour you add functionality to keep score and determine when the game is over. You also make the ball dropping into the goal appear a little more natural and less abrupt. Finally, you add vibration and audio to bring your game to life.

Adding Gameplay

Although the game you built last hour was mostly functional, some additional features, such as the ability to keep score, to know when the game is over, and to display some status information, ...