Giant Bomb for Windows Phone

I've been working on a GB app for Windows Phone 7 for a few weeks now and wanted to throw out some work in progress to try to gauge interest and lock down features.  I'm thinking that v1 will have feature parity with the iPhone app, plus some direct video integration into the Zune player built into the phone and support for browsing the DB without starting from a search.   If anyone has any suggestions for features, I'd love to hear them.
 
I've also included offline caching so that downloaded data is stored to the phone to viewing when you don't have network access.  This should allow me to display the entire list of items in the app rather than the 25 at a time approach the iPhone version works, but this is still a work in progress. 
 
I'm trying to get this finished so it will be available in the marketplace when the phones launch, but that's 100% dependent on how much time I get to test on real hardware before then.

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That looks great. I'm still thinking I'll wait on WP7 until they iron out some of my issues with it, but it's great to see you're already getting started.

Wow. Fantastic. Are the forums going to be on it at all?

The best feature to offer is resume for the Bombcast - so you can easily continue listing where you left off.  Working on that for the webOS version.

I was thinking about making one of these but I have no experience and don't want to pay the annual fee, are you going to make the code open source? (I'd love that, would be great for learning)
 
Also, how about making the link colors be the accent color selected by the user in the phone settings? There is a way to do access that information in silverlight (iirc).

There's a programming thread that I had started a few backs that collects links of awesome projects. There's been some decent activity on that thread, so maybe if you post a link when your app is done, I could add it to the main page and your app could get some good exposure. Thread linkified below .. in case you are interested .. 
 
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/game-programming-discussion-thread/456281/

Glad I came here before I started developing my app, yours looks pretty much what I had in mind :) 
 
If you need a hand developing and / or testing I have an Omnia 7 I can test it on :D 

@TheFaxman: Nice app!  I look forward to see it on the WP7 Marketplace!

It works well but I have a small suggestion: in your pages other than the main panorama, add shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="false" in your phone:PhoneApplicationPage tag.  This will remove the time area that makes the screen jump when switching between the main page and the others...

You should submit it for others to try it out!  And for the next version after that (1.1 or later), may I ask a feature request: to be able to filter on our favorite(s) platform(s)? That would make it even better!

Thanks for building it!

My app is finally on the marketplace - you can download it here:

Awesome! Can't wait to try it out.

This might be reason enough to pop my SIM into my Samsung Focus for a few days! Haven't used it in months.

THIS HAS MADE ME ERECT

Nice!

APPROVED

YES! Great job, duder! Pinned to the top of my home page!

Very nice! I've tried another GB app, but it just links to site pages. This one is much better.

I don't have a WP7.

@TheFaxman: Great app! Nice to have a native Metro interface for this stuff.

It looks like Whiskey now provides an API for all of their websites, instead of just GB/CV. Any chance we can get apps for the other 4 sites?

@evilmax17: The API for their sites other than CV & GB are limited to video information only (they're what drives the Boxee / Roku apps). I have considered building a generic WP7 Video App for all the Whiskey properties, but that's on hold until I finish the Mango improvements for the GB app.

Once I'm done with those it's a toss up between porting the GB app to Windows 8 or building a more Zune integrated WP7 video app.