This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the first of a six part [...]

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On July 22nd at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle Washington, Bill Reiss and myself will be co-presenting a session titled “Building Games with Silverlight”.  This session is part of the casual game track and will focus on our experience being involved in the development of a Silverlight game.  [...]

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Last week I presented a session at DesertCodeCamp 2008 on Developing Casual Games with Silverlight 2. Excluding some technical difficulties, getting my MacBook to connect to dual projectors, the presentation went well. There is certainly interest in the community to begin using Silverlight as a casual gaming platform.
The goal of this presentation was to [...]

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I stumbled upon this news article on BussinessWekk.com last week and thought it was quite interesting that Real Networks would find the potential in casual gaming so optimistic that it would spin off its division into a seperate company. This move could certainly push Real Networks into the lead within the casual gaming [...]

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