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Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Collision, Games: Graphics, Games: Postprocessing, Games: Shaders

Ship Game is a complete 3D spaceship combat game. 

This sample demonstrates how create an HTTP Multiplayer game for Windows Phone.

This sample demonstrates how to use the Bing Maps API to load map data into an XNA Game Studio game.

Games: 2D Graphics, Games: Content Pipeline, Games: Graphics, Input, Touch & Gestures

This Training Kit expands upon the Honeycomb Rush lab by bringing the game to Xbox 360 and Windows. 

This article describes a variety of ways to reduce loading times on your Windows Phone 7 games.

Windows Phone Recipes provide you with building blocks that you can use in your own applications to accelerate your development. We created the Non-Linear Navigation Service for Windows Phone in order to give you the ability to simplify and improve how the Windows Phone back stack works in your application.

This article discusses best practices for achieving good performance on Xbox 360 for XNA Game Studio games.

This utility provides detailed information about hardware capabilities for XNA Game Studio projects.

Games: 3D Graphics, Games: Graphics

This sample demonstrates how to implement planar shadows for avatar characters to increase visual quality and richness of 3D scenes involving avatars.

Games: Data Management, Performance & Optimization

This whitepaper discusses the flow of events that occur in your application for common user scenarios, and what actions the developer should perform in each event. This paper references the Unit Converter Starter Kit, also available for downloaded from the Education Catalog.

This Windows Phone 7 Starter Kit is a complete Unit Converter application written in C#. The program enables the user to convert values from one type of unit to another.

Games: Data Management, Performance & Optimization

This sample shows how to restore the visual state of a page and also application data when an application is reactivated after tombstoning.

Games: Audio, Sensors

This sample demonstrates how to get audio input from the Windows Phone microphone in a Silverlight application by using the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio.Microphone class.

This Windows Phone 7 Starter Kit is a complete Level application written in C#. The program provides the user with the ability to use their phone as a level.

This sample shows you how to create a custom indeterminate progress bar that runs on the compositor thread for better performance.