Marble Maze is a sample Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and DirectX app that demonstrates how to build a basic 3D game using DirectX. This game is a simple labyrinth game where the player is challenged to roll a marble through a maze of pitfalls using tilt controls.

This sample is written in C++ and requires some experience with graphics programming and DirectX. Complete content that examines this code can be found at Developing Marble Maze, a game in C++ and DirectX.

• Marble Maze
• Direct3D 11 game development
• Create a simple UWP game with DirectX
• Direct3D 11 graphics
• HLSL
• Direct2D graphics
• XAudio2
• XInput
• Developing games

• Incorporating the Windows Runtime into your DirectX game
• Using DirectX to render 3D graphics for display in a game
• Implementing simple vertex and pixel shaders with HLSL
• Developing simple physics and collision behaviors in a DirectX game
• Handling input from accelerometer, touch, and mouse, and game controller with the Windows Runtime and XInput
• Playing and mixing sound effects and background music with XAudio2

This sample requires Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10.

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1. Uunzip the archive.
2. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
3. Starting in the folder where you unzipped the sample, go to the C++ subfolder. Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file.
4. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.

The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.

• Select Build > Deploy Solution.

• To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or selectDebug