XNA : WP7 vs PC

Question

I'm currently developing a turn by turn multi player game for a proof of concept. What I want is that a player from a WP7 can play against a PC player. I'm using the push notification to contact the phone, that's ok for this part.

But I'm hitting a wall when I want to contact the PC. I wanted to use the same approach, but the Push Notification Server Side Library is using the Windows.Phone DLL, which is unavailable on PC-XNA.

Any ideas of how I should proceed or suggestions?

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

The Push Notification Service is intended for communication between a server and a Windows Phone 7 device, which is why there is no assembly available for you to use it from a desktop PC application. In order to add support for Phone to PC multiplayer gaming you will need to run your own server to handle the communications that both devices can contact and communicate through.