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Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7

Posted: Feb 03, 2011 at 9:00 AM
By: John Papa
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Did you ever want to write a game with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Ryan Plemons, Sr Developer with Terralever, shares his journey in optimizing the Silverlight based Zero Gravity game to work on Windows Phone 7. Ryan shares how he built the application using Isolated Storage, how he applied tombstoning, and many other topics on how he and his colleagues created the app. Ryan also shares some tips on how he improved performance for the application as he shows the simple code changes he made to make some big improvements.

The code is free, the game is free ... don't miss this one!

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carlos

Feb 04, 2011 at 8:40 AM

very good.
Michael Flynn

Feb 05, 2011 at 4:52 PM

Plemons is da man! Silverlight MVP!
StefanSavev

Feb 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM

Just finished all the levels! Great game, please add more levels.
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Feb 22, 2011 at 1:46 PM

HALLO*******GOOD EVNING

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