Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

Image Courtesy: http://watgames.codeplex.com/ 

The Windows Azure Toolkit(WAT) for Social Games is a set of guidance, samples, and tools that helps developers quickly get started building a casual or social game on Windows Azure.

You can use use WAT for building Scalable Social gaming applications that utilizes the Power of Cloud – Windows Azure.

WAT for Social Games having the following features for Quickly building a Social Gaming application.

• a set of Ready to use Architecture
  • Starting a Game
  • Playing a Game
  • Game Logic
  • Friends, Invites, and Notifications
  • Leaderboard
• a set of Ready to use Server APIs
  • Authentication Service
  • Event Service
  • Game Service
  • User Service
  • Game Queue Blob
  • Game Blob
• It also include a ready use Template for Building a Social Gaming application.
• Source code of the Sample Game www.tankster.net , built using WAT for Social Games.

Download the latest release of the Toolkit here.

You can look through the following links for more information

http://watgames.codeplex.com/documentation

Informative blogs about How Tankster is built?, which will help you in formulate your own logic from the scratch.

• Architecture of Tankster – Introduction to Game Play (Part 1)
• Architecture of Tankster – Scale (Part 2)

Hope this was helpful.

Also you can checkout Windows Azure Toolkit’s for other applications.

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8

Information Courtesy : DPE(Developer Platform Evangelism) – Microsoft, CodePlex.com