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My friend Darren who wrote the hilarious Buddy Knavery game has released a preview of his new project called Steel Saga. http://www.steelsaga.com It’s an old-style RPG written in Silverlight, and seems quite deep. At the moment there are only two “zones” Read More...
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I mentioned in the last series of posts that I'd written a small Silverlight game for an internal competition. Well, I'm finally able to put it online, here it is: http://silverlight.net/samples/2b2/waronterrier/waronterriertestpage.html It's very similar Read More...
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The finished product: I'm having trouble finding a way to embed the SL app inside this page, so let's see if this works (c'mon, skydrive!): CLICK HERE TO SEE THE APP IN ACTION. And download the solution from here: Taking it Further Particle systems are Read More...
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Tying it all together has zip to do with the physics simulation, but there are a couple of interesting bits which I'll paste into here. The rest you can grab from the solution that I'll post up; feel free to ask questions. The Game Loop The heart of the Read More...
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So now that we have vectors, we need to do something with them. We're going to use the concept of a Particle . This is supposed to represent a tiny object in our world that is affected by physics. For this reason, it has a position, velocity, acceleration, Read More...
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If you know how vectors work, this isn't going to be interesting. If you've never seen one before, I'll try to keep it simple. Keep in mind that throughout this post I'm talking in 2 dimensions. The same stuff applies for 3D work; you'd just add another Read More...
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Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to simple physics and vectors. Part 2: Details of the Vector2D class. Part 3: The Particle class and basic physics-based motion. Part 4: Tying it all together. Part 5: The finished product, and "what next...?" Introduction Read More...
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Some Silverlight goodness. My friend Darren wrote this amazing game that has strong ties to those 90's adventure games that I miss; Kings|Space|Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. Writing a game engine is one thing, but doing all the artwork & Read More...
