For those that might be interested, this year’s XNA Gamefest will be held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle on July 22-23 2008. In previous years the conference has included presentations in the following tracks.

• System Programming for Windows and Xbox 360
• Graphics
• Quality Assurance and Certification
• Producer and Business Development
• Audio
• LIVE
• XNA Game Studio
• Games for Everyone
• Visual Arts

I am not sure if all of these tracks will be presented in July, but I know for certain that they have decided to expand its focus and include a Casual Gaming track highlighting some of the cool new games done in Silverlight. When I know more information I will let everyone know.

For those of you who might not have seen our presentation at Mix, Terralever recently completed a second Silverlight game for Miniclip.com called Tunnel Trouble. This game is entirely written against the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 plugin. I am not sure that it has been spotlighted on there web site, but Microsoft has placed it on the home page of Silverlight.net. When you get a chance give it a play we are very happy with how it came out.

A month ago Microsoft selected Terralever to conduct a in depth Case Study on our use of Silverlight 2 for creating a new Miniclip.com game Tunnel Trouble. This process was really exciting for Terralever.  I feel Microsoft did a great job of capturing the value we find in Silverlight and how this powerful framework allowed us to create a compelling casual game in less then 5 weeks.

Today Terralevers interactive team released our second game written for the Silverlight plugin.  Zombomatic  was writen for Miniclip and targets the  1.0 version of the silverlight plugin.  Zombomatic is a fun puzzle game that challenges you to swap electrical conductors to connect them into a path for the electricity to flow and bring your Zomomatic 300o back to life.  Give the game a try I gaurantee you will enjoy it.