Intel® Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit

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Mobilize your Games

Games Build your games with mobility in mind. Add key features to your application to create a better user experience on the growing platform of choice for gamers—the Laptop.

The Intel® Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit (TDK) provides an easy interface to help extend your games by adding mobile-aware features to make for a better laptop gaming experience.

Intel gives you, the game developer, C++ code that you can incorporate directly into your game, royalty free, to take advantage of the platforms mobile technology.

Intel provides support through the online mobile software forums staffed by Intel software engineers to provide information on using the TDK for fantastic mobile game play.

Learn more about the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK.

Release Laptop Gaming TDK 2.1

The new version (V2.1) of the Intel® Laptop Gaming TDK, all features including the Ad-Hoc Peer-to-Peer capabilities are fully supported in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista. You can also learn new capability of Ad-Hoc Peer-to-Peer from this paper.

Highlights

Quickly deliver compelling new mobility features that demonstrate platform consciousness of the game.

  • Deliver code that responds to platform state changes such as power source changes, battery power levels and WiFi signal strength variations.
  • Improve gameplay by monitoring platform characteristics and taking appropriate action in response to changes due to mobile usage.
  • Provide for better processor utilization in multi-core platforms using threaded API calls.
  • Provide capability to manage Peer-to-Peer Ad-Hoc networking and monitor peers
  • (New in v2.1) Fully supported in XP 32-bit, Vista 32-bit, XP 64-bit and Vista 64-bit.

 

What's in the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK:
  • Queries for the mobile platform on power status, including power source and battery power statistics.
  • Wi-Fi support to provide the connectivity status and wireless signal strength.
  • Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc support to provide peer-to-peer networking.
  • The ability to get real-time processor utilization information.
  • Non-threaded APIs for functionality, threaded APIs for best performance.
  • Support for Windows XP* 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows X P 64-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems.
  • Samples showing control of game elements and suggestions for usage.
  • User guide, release notes, and system configuration requirements.
  • Known issues, bug fixes and work-arounds.
  • Installation instructions.
  • End user licenses.
  • Laptop Gaming TDK User Guide.

 

Key Features

Build games that are sensitive to the challenges associated with gaming on laptops. The Intel Laptop Gaming TDK provides for easier integration of the following platform-specific features:

  • Provides a top-level API to get information about battery power states, network connectivity, and processor information, including number of cores.
  • Offers a threaded event management system to monitor system changes with minimal overhead to client game applications.
  • Allows creation of user-defined callbacks in an object-oriented way to handle specific platform events.
  • Provides a top-level API to create an Ad-Hoc Peer-to-Peer network and monitor peers in that network.

 

Download the free Intel Laptop Gaming TDK today to maximize the mobility of your PC game and deliver a new level of game play to your customers.

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