Let me be the first to say... Woot!

Damn it! I wanted to be the first Woot! ;)

It means people with 100+ posts or that have committed code or helped testing before. Also people that have won previous contests.

Soon after everyone can test it out as well (with a Marketplace account).


About Emulators: We currently have not finished work on our emulators, in fact our iOS Emulator was last updated in 2010, so we need to fix up some stuff first. It is however possible to test out the different emulators with the build service on Windows (just no look and feel of emulators, just the graphics api mostly). That is how I tested most of the new graphic and content improvements last week.

Using the Android SDK Emulator is also completely useless like I have mentioned in several other posts, it is just too slow for anything serious. It is also a pain to work with (you can deploy your .apk you get from the build service, it works, but it won't be fun).

We could also support the iOS Emulator on MacOS, but that is not really useful IMO. We have not done so since 2010 as well and no of the game teams sees any advantage testing it there. It is either the real device for usability testing or just using Windows.

So in short: Testing is currently Windows only, deploying is only with a Marketplace account and iOS/Android Add-Hoc only (you can however use certificates for the AppStore, but we would not recomment it ^^).

You could let some user test the market too.
Simply select some active user and let them test.
So you have more time to focus other things too and more feedback with testing.
I could provide me as tester, if you want (I'd like to give something back because you give us with delta so many things)

Just tried a Windows build. You may or may not be aware of this minor bug:

When the Content Project name is different to the C# project name (ie the .exe name) the desktop shortcut is created wrongly. It references [Content Project name].exe instead of the correct .exe

My built application, on being run, just displays the Windows 'busy' mouse cursor for a few seconds but otherwise does nothing. No error message displayed or in any text file.

Edit: Oh, there was one warning on build:

2012-03-10 12:17:02 Warning: EngineTypeList was not found, unable to replace assembly entries to the merged '<snip>.exe' executable. If dynamic invocation is needed and AllowDevelopmentAssemblyUpdating is off execution might fail on the target platform. (<snip>)

Edited by user Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:29:10 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The Build Server was just updated (and some tools have also been updated for the next nightly release). This fixes many of the early problems when trying to build a sample (or own project) on Windows or Android. I just tested building the sample game Blocks via the Launcher on Android with different accounts. iOS also experimentally work, but we have no guide yet and there are still too many hacks in place. WP7 won't currently work because of missing XNA assemblies and we have not tested it much recently.

Here is the Guide for using the Launcher to build for Android:
http://deltaengine.net/Wiki.Launcher.ashx

Good luck and keep in mind we are still testing. Please report back problems in the appropriate forum section (Platforms for Build problems). Thanks.

Edited by user Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:08:19 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified