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DeltaEngine

ZombieHockey on iPad, Android Tablet, WP 7, iPhone, iPod, Android & PC

by Benjamin Nitschke 9. November 2010 12:22

Since I am presenting our Delta Engine here at the Tech-Ed Europe all day with our current free example game ZombieHockey, I thought why not blog about what I am showing here (excluding the iPhone which I needed to take the picture below ^^). We just were released on the WP7 Marketplace, you can download the Windows PC version and the iPod/iPhone/iPod version is coming this or next week.

Please note that the game itself (ZombieHockey) was written only once and has zero knowledge of the platforms it is supposed to run on. It is fully written in C# in Windows (only using VS2010) and utilizes our Delta Engine, which handles all the abstraction, content conversion, building and all features required for 2D and 3D games. It also runs at the maximum framerate on all platforms (using their native maximum resolution) and often only needs a fraction of the CPU and GPU power (iPad: 60fps, 80-90% utilization, iPhone: 60fps, 40% utilization, WP7: 30fps (limited by XNA), 25% utilization, Windows 7: 4000-5000 fps (with my home PC, on my netbook I have maybe 500fps still), Android: 60fps, depends on the device GPU however).

The Android version works, but since we are based on MonoDroid there, we cannot go live yet (MonoDroid is still in preview, but works great for us so far), but it will be available as soon as MonoDroid goes into beta and go-live is allowed :)

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11/9/2010 2:51:27 PM #

Hi, I know you dislike the Android,
although that isn't surprising, from what I know, all the serial testers, who don't watch the world with Apple fanboy eyes, searched long for an IPhone competitor but found nothing. Each good device had some advantages over the IPhone, but the disadvantages were so big that the complete image was worse than the IPhone.
Until the Samsung Galaxy S I9000 was released (and only the >>I9000<<, not the weaker predecessors). From what I've read in the more critical press that that phone was the first one that was called the first serious competitor to the IPhone -- also to the IPhone 4.
The user comments I read online and hear in real life are also very impressed and often consider for the first time at all buying an Android phone.
What do you think?

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11/9/2010 3:58:52 PM #

I never said that I dislike Android. From a user perspective it might lack some of the finetuning and UI the iPhone or Windows Phone 7 have gone through, but as a developer and close-to-the-metal guy I like the Android and the huge potential to customize everything way better than the other closed off platforms.

However, since I have put my Sim-Card into WP7 I have not pulled it out again. Obviously I still use iPhones and Androids daily, just not as my main phone, WP7 is just nice for its calendar, email, accounts integration and overall it is just the newest kid on the block Smile  

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11/9/2010 4:07:47 PM #

Also note that I think thanks to Nvidias focus on Android in the next year on both mobile phones and tables using the Android platform, there will be plenty of really high performance mobile devices out in 2011. For example our preview Tegra 2 device GPU already performs 3 times better than the iPad. You can read more about Tegra at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra.html

Benjamin | Reply



12/18/2010 6:23:35 AM #

Delta Engine can do 3D once again

Delta Engine can do 3D once again

exDream Blog | Reply


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