Coding4Fun

Dear friends, As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves. Our TeamWe've expanded our…

A quick note (since my http://buildwindows.com earlier today was admittedly a little sparse), I just saw project the by David Burela cross my news stream and thought you might find it appropriate. The source is available, though it does use a third party control set (the Infragistics NetAdvantage…

Today's Web Wednesday project is multiplayer HTML5 based Asteroids like game, showing off some simple HTML5 canvas dev and C# web socket communication. SpaceShoot - A multiplayer game in HTML5 The interest in using HTML5 to produce awesome cross-platform games has been increased lately. Technologies…

First a tease... Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily. You all know how much I like "learning…

You've all see the recent Coding4Fun articles on the Fall Fury project, right? What? No? (Well of course I know YOU have, but maybe there's a few other haven't...) What is Fall Fury anyway? FallFury is a 2D platformer in which the player controls a falling bear, trying to avoid obstacles, dodge…

Unity is is officially huge in the gaming industry, so when I saw this I thought that there had to be some of your that might find it interesting or useful... Bringing the Kinect SDK in to UnityInstall the Unity PackageThe pre-built Unity package includes all of the scripts required to start running…

Today's Fun Wednesday project is one that's going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well. Construct 2 PhysicsAdd realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks. Special EffectsOver 70 visual…

It wouldn't be a "coding week" if we didn't include a couple getting started posts. Today's comes via the very cool Kinect Education site. If you're interested in developing with/for the Kinect (which since you're here I kind of assume you are) you should following Kinect Education site or…

Today's WPF Wednesday project (Yeah, I know, sometimes it "Web Wednesday" sometimes "Wild Wednesday" sometimes "I'm not really sure, nothing rimes with W Wednesday"... I'm doing it on purpose to keep the content fresh... no, really... well that's my story and I'm…

Today's project is a little outside our usual, delving into C++, but one that I still thought pretty cool. And since it compiles with VS 2005, VS2008 or VS2010 and is "Fun" I thought it might be something you all might like too. This project is still in an Alpha state, but that's…