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So, I've been thinking on a XBox One target for quite a while, specially since the WP8 target is *so* similar to the examples that exists on the devkit.
Never got to do it. But last night a light bulb turned on over my head ^_^
What about UWP, specially HTML5 UWP?
All I can say is YES, it works. I build a minimal UWP html5 app on VS2015 (an empty one), copied the index.html of my game, the main.js and all the data... and presto, I had my game running on XOne!
I had more trouble making VS2015 to upload the game to XOne than to building the game itself. So, ladies and gentlemen - if your game can run on HTML5, it can easily be ported to XBox one.
I don't know how to setup everything so monkey can auto-generate all the stuff, even compiling and uploading it to the Xbox (I don't think its even possible to upload it without opening the code on VS), but it is dead easy to make an UWP target this way
Right now my Xone is updating (grrr...) maybe tonight I'll upload a video of my game running.
And sorry if I'm rambling - its 8 AM and I've been up all night with this
Here's a small picture I took with my phone:
Never got to do it. But last night a light bulb turned on over my head ^_^
What about UWP, specially HTML5 UWP?
All I can say is YES, it works. I build a minimal UWP html5 app on VS2015 (an empty one), copied the index.html of my game, the main.js and all the data... and presto, I had my game running on XOne!
I had more trouble making VS2015 to upload the game to XOne than to building the game itself. So, ladies and gentlemen - if your game can run on HTML5, it can easily be ported to XBox one.
I don't know how to setup everything so monkey can auto-generate all the stuff, even compiling and uploading it to the Xbox (I don't think its even possible to upload it without opening the code on VS), but it is dead easy to make an UWP target this way
Right now my Xone is updating (grrr...) maybe tonight I'll upload a video of my game running.
And sorry if I'm rambling - its 8 AM and I've been up all night with this
Here's a small picture I took with my phone: