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Game Programming with Silverlight

GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming

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:

  1. Creating Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008.
  2. Creating a tile based map
  3. Scrolling the map via keyboard events.
  4. Demo of a multi-player game called “Fireball” as well as “Tank Wars”.

I am going to be polishing up and optimizing the source code for both of these games and then I will post the full source with a tutorial and a live version of each game on my blog here. You can expect these by next week.

If you met me at GameFest and did not get my contact you can reach me at msnow@microsoft.com for any questions or suggestions. It was a great privilege to be at the conference and I am looking forward to the next opportunity to speak on Silverlight.

Thank you,

--Mike

Posted: Jul 23 2008, 12:39 PM by mike.snow | with 6 comment(s) |
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Microsoft Weblogs said:

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# July 23, 2008 4:46 PM

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# July 24, 2008 6:42 AM

SilverlightBlog.com said:

Silverlight at Gamefest2008

# July 24, 2008 6:36 PM

Visual Web Developer Team Blog said:

3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight

# July 25, 2008 3:09 PM

GuinnessKMF said:

Just wanted to let you know I'm egarly anticipating you posting the source code so I can dive in and see if I've been going about things wrong (or at least different)... my attempts at tile-based games have met some resistance w/ performance/image quality.

Any status on your timeframe?

# July 30, 2008 12:19 PM

SmallWhiteBear said:

Dear Mike:

Could you tell me where I can find the demo and the source of the multi-player games which you show in the Gamefest 2008?

Thank you very much!

# October 7, 2008 5:12 AM