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SimonG: ...
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Elenarie: And you have this. First game to properly implement cross-platform, enabling you to play the game on Windows 8, Windows RT, WP8, and the 360.
Who?
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gameon: Who?
The ARM based version of Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8.

EDIT: Development-wise, its quite brilliant. You won't have to rewrite your whole game when you publish to RT or WP8, just make small adjustments to be compliant with the devices' resources.
Post edited October 18, 2012 by Elenarie
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gameon: Who?
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Elenarie: The ARM based version of Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8.
Still not sure what that is, unless it's android based?
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Elenarie: The ARM based version of Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8.
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gameon: Still not sure what that is, unless it's android based?
Well, you see, we're (in our laptops and desktop machines) using processors that were built using the x86 architecture (CPUs by Intel and AMD).

The ARM processor architecture is less powerful performance-wise, but has lower power requirements and thus it is used for processors meant for phones, low performance tablets and similar stuff (CPUs by Qualcomm, Texas Industries, NVidia, and.... the last manufacturer's name escapes me right now).
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Elenarie: The ARM based version of Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8.
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gameon: Still not sure what that is, unless it's android based?
ARM is a very popular processor architecture for small devices (phones, tablets, ...) Windows 8 will come in a version for said architecture, called Windows RT. It's different from Windows Phone 8, but Windows Phone 8 is - unlike Windows Phone 7, and earlier Windows Mobile - based on the desktop version of Windows.
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gameon: Still not sure what that is, unless it's android based?
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Elenarie: Well, you see, we're (in our laptops and desktop machines) using processors that were built using the x86 architecture (CPUs by Intel and AMD). The ARM processor architecture is less powerful performance-wise, but has lower power requirements and thus it is used for processors meant for phones, low performance tablets and similar stuff (CPUs by Qualcomm, Texas Industries, NVidia, and.... the last manufacturer's name escapes me right now).
I see, thanks for the explanation.

So do android computers use the arm architecture or is that something different too?
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gameon: I see, thanks for the explanation. So do android computers use the arm architecture or is that something different too?
Most of them, yes. At least, I don't remember seeing an Android based machine with a x86 CPU... although I think Intel may be making a phone using a x86 CPU (rumors?).
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gameon: So do android computers use the arm architecture or is that something different too?
Android devices, and, indeed, Apple's portable devices, do use the ARM architecture almost all the time, yes, as well as earlier Windows Mobile devices.
Good to know guys. My knowledge of portable devices is poor.