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Albany – Magenic Silverlight Game Programming Contest

Todd Casey — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:26:00 +0000

Magenic held an internal Silverlight game programming contest in August. The rules were that an individual or team would create a game using Silverlight 1.1 and the game should be fun and easy enough for an eight year old to play. I did not have much free time in August so I ended up starting and finishing the development of my entry, Albany, the last week of August. My brother-in-law, Phil, helped with the graphics and created some of the levels. It was a fun project and Albany actually won 2nd place! You can play Albany and the other contest entries here.

Silverlight is a very interesting technology that will be interesting to watch evolve. I have a background in creating games using DirectX, but this is just plain simple. The deployment model is also very slick. Hopefully I will find some time to blog more technical/tutorial type posts on my adventures with Silverlight and now XNA.

Silverlight 1.0 Beta – Hello World

Todd Casey — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:47:00 +0000

Here is my first Silverlight 1.0 Beta page. Orcas is finishing installing as we speak and then I have a few ideas that I would like to implement using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. I experienced the same issue and resolution that Rick Strahl has documented in his blog entry.

UPDATE: Removed the link to my Silverlight 1.0 Beta.

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha

Todd Casey — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:31:00 +0000

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha was released today after the announcement by Scott Guthrie at MIX07 that Silverlight will also have .NET support! You really must see the video that shows Top Banana, an incredible demo of what Silverlight can be used to create. You can view the Top Banana demo video here.

Mike Harsh has a lot of great information on his blog about Silverlight and Brad Abrams posted a nice highres Silverlight poster! I am looking forward to playing around with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha!

Silverlight

Todd Casey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:15:00 +0000

I am really looking forward to seeing the new/updated Silverlight sites tomorrow!

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight
http://www.silverlight.net

I learned more about IIS 7 and PowerShell this weekend. I will blog more about these as I have more time. As an ASP.NET developer I really like all of the new features of IIS 7 and as a .NET developer how cool is PowerShell!