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Explore building touch layouts topics for XBOX game development.

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Create custom touch controls layout

Unlock a faster, smarter way to build custom touch controls.

Custom assets for touch adaptation

Providing semantic icons on the controls in your touch adaptation layouts is an effective way to communicate to players of your game what…

A designer's guide to building touch

  1. Overview 1. Benefits of adding touch controls to XBOX console games 2.

High contrast mode

Dependent on your title’s color scheme, there may be instances where your touch layouts are hard to see because they contrast poorly with…

Building touch control layouts

Building your touch control layouts consists of creating a touch adaptation bundle that includes:

Changing touch control layouts based on

Games have the ability to change the touch layout that is being displayed to the player or modify state that a currently displayed layout…

Deploying your touch control layouts

After you’ve built your touch layouts, you’ll want to interact with them in your game.

Publishing touch layouts

When you have built and validating your layouts, you can publish your layouts so that players can access them during gameplay.

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Last modified on August 20, 2026