Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 7, 2010 @05:24AM from the pick-up-and-play dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."

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Re:Not Cross Platform by DeKO · 2010-03-07 05:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Remember, one of the definitions of cross platform is that it still works after a system restart.
Just make it happen for Civilization 5 by FunkSoulBrother · 2010-03-07 06:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Make it happen for Civ 5, so I can play the same game on the TV at home, switch to the laptop when the wife wants to watch TV, then switch to the phone in the bathroom at work! My life would be complete.
Re:Meanwhile... by dave562 · 2010-03-07 07:53 · Score: 3, Funny

And the 0.02% of the global video game playing market rejoiced!