Entries tagged with gaming - Channel 9

Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF's! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface

Laura Foy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:15:00 GMT

In the middle of the summer you might think Microsoft would take a break and kick-back but clearly that's not how we roll. In addition to Office 2010 and Windows 7- Microsoft made news in a few other ways...

Microsoft hired the Apple guy?
Linux is my homeboy
Xbox Handheld coming your way
Sue the spammers
Bing Jingle = BINGLE
Win your own Surface

PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine Preparing for Launch

Adam Kinney — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:51:00 GMT

PlayBits is launching their Silverlight Game Engine Early Adopter program on June 30th. The details of the Program are available on the PlayBits blog. Check out their Video Gallery to see the Game Engine in action.

The Coding4Fun Show: Physics Helper for Silverlight by Andy Beaulieu

Brian Peek — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:00 GMT

The Coding4Fun Show is a new series dedicated to interviewing people creating fun and interesting projects with a bit of "how to" mixed in.

In this first episode, I interview Andy Beaulieu, creator of the Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend, and Farseer. Learn a bit about Andy and how to use his library to create some very powerful physics-based effects in your Silverlight applications with very little effort.

Northeast Roadshow – XNA Game Development

Brian Johnson — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:55:00 GMT

Let’s talk games! In this screencast, Chris Bowen (http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen) tours the world of XNA, from the components of the XNA Framework, the XNA Creators Club Online, and resources for learning to create games. The bulk of the screencast focuses using XNA Game Studio, which can create games for Windows, XBOX 360, and Zune, to create a simple 2D game from scratch. Of course, it isn’t a fancy game (in the least), but you’ll soon have a working understanding of XNA. It’s up to you to take it from there to create the next smash hit!

Slides and code from the session are available on the Northeast Roadshow Code Gallery.

ServerQuest Gallery is up, 16 Silverlight Game finalists chosen

Adam Kinney — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:24:00 GMT

The ServerQuest Contest Gallery has opened to display the 16 finalists in the Silverlight Game building contest. There is a variety of games for the panel of judges to choose from. I haven't tried them all yet, but I did get stuck on the Boss Launch game for awhile. Into the pizza boxes, you go, Tim!

SilverSprite - XNA Games in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:51:00 GMT

Bill Reiss is building games in Silverlight, but he also likes to build games in XNA. The obvious move then is to create a library that allows you to run XNA games within Silverlight. And no code changes to the XNA games would be ideal. That's exactly what Bill has done, and the code library's name is SilverSprite.

Anatomy of a Silverlight Game

Adam Kinney — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:53:00 GMT

Nikola Mihaylov has written a game in Silverlight called Shock. This is not just a "fun project over the weekend" game. There are multiple game modes, music playlists, leaderboards, reflex tests, source code available and a whitepaper. Yes, Nikola is sharing his code along with a whitepaper entitled Anatomy of a Silverlight Game. 33 pages of the lessons he's learned while building his successful Shock game.

Enjoy and send him your feedback!

TCSWeekly 006 - Silverlight is fizzing along with Moonlight and Contests

Adam Kinney — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:47:00 GMT

My favorite episode so far - strong news-wise (Moonlight 1.0 ships, Tim Sneath reports Silverlight is fizzing, and a $5000 Silverlight game contest), hearty tutorials including how to use AddIns in Blend and mesmorizing colorful demos.

Stories covered in this episode include:

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UT3 Bots for .NET

Adam Kinney — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:17:00 GMT

You may not be able to write Quake in .NET, but with the UT3 Bots Starter Kit you could write your Bot in .NET for Unreal Tournament 3. James Lissiak demonstrates how to write a simple Bot and the Silverlight-based visualization for real-time game information.

Cogwheel: Building World of Warcraft Addons

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:38:00 GMT

At Blizzcon, we got a chance to interview Matthew Orlando aka "Cogwheel". Matthew is one of the best known AddOn and Macro developers (and a Wow MVP) in World of Warcraft and he's also the co-author of World of Warcraft Programming.

In this interview we discuss some of the upcoming changes in the new expansion for Wrath of the Lich King, how developers can get started building addons, and more.

QuakeLight Preview

Adam Kinney — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:07:00 GMT

In this video, I'm running a preview version of QuakeLight a Silverlight-based port of Quake. Its very impressive to see an old-school classic game come to life in Silverlight 2. Stunned, along with others, I interviewed Julien Frelat about the story behind QuakeLight, coding techniques used and when there will be a public release.