Developing a Casual Games with Silverlight 2 – Module 2

Date November 19, 2008

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 second of a six part series of [...]

Silverlight 2 MVC Game Framework

Date June 6, 2008

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 [...]

Silverlight Circular Collision Animation

Date May 14, 2008

Building on the sample I created on Circular Motion, in this example I add a concept of collision.  In physics, deflection is the event that occurs where an object collides and bounces off of another surface.  In my example, two spheres collide at a given X/Y causing each ball to reverse direction and maintains its [...]