Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Gaming !!!

The Windows Azure toolkit for social games helps to build social games in Azure.  The platform enhances the future of gaming industry in cloud & also proving support for compute, storage , on demand content delivery & networking capabilities.  The future of Azure platform focuses on HTML5 with core support in out of browser enhancements.

Tankster

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games also comes with a new proof-of-concept game called Tankster from industry innovator Grant Skinner and his team atgskinner.com.

Tankster is built with HTML5 and comes complete with reusable server side code and documentation. It also supports a variety of social interactions including messaging, wall posts, and comments while player achievements and game stats are presented on a live leaderboard so gamers can interact with each other—what’s a social game without being able to talk trash?

Build games with Windows Azure & make it operate on Windows Phone. Enhance XNA gaming !!!

Download : http://watgames.codeplex.com/

 

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 is released to make development easy for Windows Metro style application that can harness the power of Windows Azure Compute and Storage. The template is based on Windows Push Notification services existing with Windows Phone 7 applications.

Technologies:

• ASP.NET MVC 3
• Windows Azure SDK 1.4.1 Refresh
• Windows Metro style Javascript application project

The process of sending a notification requires few steps:

1. Request a channel. Utilize the WinRT API to request a Channel Uri from WNS. The Channel Uri will be the unique identifier you use to send notifications to an application instance.
2. Register the channel with your Windows Azure cloud services. Once you have your channel you can then store your channel and associate it with any application specific data (e.g user profiles and such) until your services decide that it’s time to send a notification to the given channel
3. Authenticate against WNS. To send notifications to your channel URI you are first required to Authenticate against WNS using OAuth2 to retrieve a token to be used for each subsequent notification that you push to WNS.
4. Push notification to channel recipient. Once you have your channel, notification payload and WNS access token you can then perform an HttpWebRequest to post your notification to WNS for delivery to your client.

To download & more :   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-the-windows-azure-toolkit-for-windows-8.aspx

Download SDK:  http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/

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