Jeff Weber, creator of Krashlander, FarSeer physics goes over how much money he has made from Krashlander.  He compares and contrasts the “sell” of the application, then what happens when he put’s it into utilization of the PubCenter. If you read...

What?  Visual Basic can now be used to develop on the Windows Phone 7!  I wonder if Alfred Thompson knows about this?  I checked Alfred’s excellent blog and I don’t see this.  Yippee! I beat him to the punch! In earlier blogs and usually...

Skipping over my usual blah Apple is not secure, blah blah, Chrome is the most insecure browser blah, blah, blah.  What about a free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 laptop over $699.  This means you can get a laptop with 8 gigs of memory and run...

As you learn more about online game design, games like Everquest seem to get it right, but others online games don’t catch on.  T. L. Taylor presents a detailed look at Everquest and her extensive research.  This is interesting in that over...

Privacy: Do game designers need to worry about privacy? Yes Privacy by Design (Very high level) Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Privacy Questionnaire A recent example: Disney apparently wishes that their game designers had...

One of my skip level managers, Mark, brings up an interesting story about his youth and how he ported quake while he was in college. So to make him happy, especially with reviews coming up (Mark, awesome job!), I have been looking into the various quake...

When building games you need to be aware of causing your end users to be put in a condition of risk. Microsoft goal is to be a standards based design shop, but some standards are not secure, so what to do? I don’t know, but I am not paid to make...

Time to click the link below, but read the rest of this short post or count to 10 before you do.  I say count to 10 because you might be thinking: Holey Moley I just figured out C#, WTF# is up with a NEW LANGUAGE! Oh well, here is a link that you...

Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight: OMG has Microsoft got it right?  Seriously, I have taken a look at these tutorials and they are just awesome.  Why waste time reading anymore stuff on this page? ...

If I have a favorite blogger and software author, other than Alfred Thompson, it would be Andy Beaulieu . Andy had done an exceptional job of describing how to make a shuffleboard game for Windows Phone 7.  This is a clearly done, with each step...

Oh seriously, Silverlight 5 is out, but you can use the mature Silverlight 4 Training kit to get up to speed.  And the price is right: FREE!  As in FREE! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=24cea29e-042e-41c9-aa16-684a0ca5f5db&DisplayLang...

Is it possible to connect Kinect with Silverlight?  I haven’t tried it yet, but I just had the thought: Could you use Silverlight 5 with Kinect? So if you are interested in this idea, sign up for the Kinect SDK from Microsoft Research at: http:/...

Hey, where are the awesome web sites using Silverlight 5 3-D?  Ok, it’s beta, but come on, where are the great web sites using this technology?  Anyone know?  Oh, maybe it is too soon.  HTML 5 is driving interest in both using HTML...

Digging into Silverlight based Games. So here are some blogs I have read about Sliverlight 5: Andy does some cool stuff, and the post below is a TOTAL blow away! Really, you are now wasting precious time in your life reading my blog, just click on the...

Canvas seems to be a big deal with HTML 5, and quite rightly so, canvas is an important part of game design Introduction to HTML 5 Canvas An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element, date: Sept. 1, 2010, so it isn’t quite up to the latest...

Moving images in Silverlight is pretty simple, the code works on the phone as well as on the web.  Here is the simplest code I could come up with: Create a canvas Create a border for each image (for simplicity) Add images Add mouse events (for both...

If you need Free sounds, music, 3D Graphics or 2D graphics, then you need to get these game templates. There is a treasure trove of sounds, music and other objects in the AppHub!  If you download and install many of the apps they all include reusable...

If you don’t have access to a Windows Phone 7, it is difficult to figure out how to make a game that uses the accelerometer, and often we just use the finger flip, which isn’t nearly as cool. So if you need a simulator, get thee over to: http://wp7accelerometerkit...