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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

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!