Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on Silverlight game programming at GameFest 2008. Working with Tim Heuer and two Silverlight MVP’s Bill Reiss and Joel Neubeck , we were able to hold two sessions that covered Silverlight. During my talk we covered topics including: Creating Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008. Creating a tile based map Scrolling the map via keyboard events. Demo of a multi-player game called “Fireball” as well as “Tank Wars”. I am going to be polishing up and optimizing…(read more)

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I responded to a question in a forum today, which got me thinking about running Silverlight Applications on the desktop.  So this got me thinking of the options available. File System Silverlight Applications Silverlight applications can run from…( read more )…(read more)

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So in the previous article I discussed what you can do today to run your Silverlight application independent of your web server.  These were running your Silverlight application from the file system, or running a Silverlight application Offline….( read more )…(read more)

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By the time Silverlight came around, the problems afflicting web applications all round were well known and somewhat well understood. The burden of dealing with network latency, cancellation and errors should not be thrust on every web developer. Platforms…( read more )…(read more)

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Mark Monster on Networking, Rich Griffen on Tweening and Baby Smash, Matt Perdick using WrapPanel, Bart Czernicki on SL and Multi-touch panels, Corinna Barber with 3 videos on Designer/Developer, Dan Wahlin on layouts, Laurence Moroney's SL2 book…( read more )…(read more)

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