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Dakshal Raijada
Dakshal Raijada

Reputation: 1261

Xamarin Forms Game Development

I am new to Game Development. However, have been using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms for quite a while now.

I am trying to build a game (for Android and iOS) which will have many screens, one of which will have a view like Clash Of Clans in game view (i.e. the attack view). I am guessing it will like Isometric Projection (https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-isometric-worlds-a-primer-for-game-developers--gamedev-6511). I know that I can build most of the gaming screen like Play Game, View account and so on using Xamarin Forms.

What I would like to know is, is it possible to build the isometric projection view using Xamarin.Forms and if so is it ideal to build it in Forms (like using Tiled with Cocosharp OR maybe using Unity or URHO)?

Ideally, we would like to have one code base and hence we are going for Xamarin.Forms . But I am not sure if it will provide the best outcome compared to building it seperatly for Android and iOS.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6098

Answers (2)

Janaco
Janaco

Reputation: 1683

As @Thameem stated in his comment this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/graphics-games/game-development/ explain how to integrate games in xamarin apps. Also provides several links for further searching in the option you choose.

Upvotes: 0

Tomislav Erić
Tomislav Erić

Reputation: 215

if you want to use Unity3D the only solution to use it within Xamarin.Forms would be to create a BrowserGame with Unity3D and then call it from a webview. But if you are new to Game Development as you said, maybe CocosSharp is the way to go. You can add it as a NuGet to your existing Xamarin.Forms app. There is also a neat official Xamarin.Forms Tutorial: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/advanced/cocossharp/

Upvotes: 1

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