XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Games, Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 20th, 2010
Continuing with my game theme for the week here’s a little tidbit about a great looking, 3-D puzzle game. SouthEnd Interactive has just announced that they will have their cute iomilo game available when the Windows Phone 7 is launched this fall. Now you can carry ilomilo with you in your pocket and play it [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight on Aug 9th, 2007
Jeff Prosise, one of my cohorts at Wintellect, is spending the summer creating Silverlight courseware. if you’d like to hear what he thinks about Silverlight you can catch his Silverlight presentations at Devscovery-Redmond next week. There are still a few seats left if you want to attend. Jeff is creating some interesting Silverlight applications while researching [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight on Jul 21st, 2007
All the classic games are getting the Silverlight treatment. Now you can play hangman too. Learn more and play the game.
Posted in Games, Silverlight on Jul 21st, 2007
Synopsis: Egyptian-themed chess with lasers It’s an Silverlight version of a board game called Khet, which combines classic (chess like) strategy with a fun twist that uses lasers and mirrors. Players alternate turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces having two, one or no mirrored surfaces. All four types of pieces (pharaoh, obelisk, pyramid and djed column) can [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight, WPF on Jul 12th, 2007
Sometime this year I became the WPF/Silverlight game expert. I’m not sure who came up with this idea, but it wasn’t me. All I did was write a few articles suggesting that game development helps push platform adoption and mention a few games written in WPF/Silverlight. Now I’m getting press releases about new games and email [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight, WPFe on Apr 6th, 2007
I think that compelling applications always drive platform adoption. Give me a cool app that I can’t resist and I’ll do what it takes to get on your platform. I’ll buy a Mac/PC, download the .NET framework, install the Java runtime in my browser or click a link to install Flash. Your customers will do that in a [...]
