Building games based on Silverlight and Expressions

Building games for everyone, especially beginning programmers.

TouchDevelop is a new tool that is being tested by Microsoft Research.  It isn’t JavaScript, it...

Date: 11/27/2012

Scirra.com is an amazing tool to create your game ideas quickly.  Scirra.com’s tool called...

Date: 10/22/2012

If you need to brush up on your HTML: HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals This is a nice way to brush up...

Date: 09/21/2012

If you are just starting with JavaScript, then you will need to work through the 21 short videos on...

Date: 09/19/2012

One of my fellow technology evangelists has written a little library of javascript for use in...

Date: 09/18/2012

IE 10 Preview, wow, this is a great way to learn more about Modern Design and get into the right...

Date: 09/16/2012

Please click on the links and check out these offers, they cost you nothing and might help you make...

Date: 09/12/2012

Get signed up at https://www.imaginecup.com NOW.  And it’s THREE, that’s right 3 $50,000 first...

Date: 08/29/2012

Hey sign up for this free Hackathon, win prizes (as described in the link): Free Online Hackathon!...

Date: 08/15/2012

If you read no other free tutorial this summer then this is the one you need to work through. ...

Date: 08/06/2012

In the current environment of game design you can get away with flash and dash game design, that is...

Date: 07/21/2012

If you are reading this blog, good, if you aren’t, then how did you get to this part of the...

Date: 07/20/2012

Usually one doesn’t encounter the use of the product PowerPoint and TFS in the same sentence. ...

Date: 07/19/2012

One of the problems with working  with free tools is that they are limited, unless you know how...

Date: 07/18/2012

Ok that’s it, plus this video, could be a great idea.  Avoid the issue with the fact that mom...

Date: 07/17/2012

Nothing new with that, except is it easier to build multiplayer games with Windows 8 and...

Date: 07/16/2012

First rule of Fight Club: Don’t talk about fight club.  Corollary: In any group of men the most...

Date: 06/30/2012

In the paper: Learning to Solve Game Trees , it isn’t about you learning how to solve game trees but...

Date: 06/29/2012

How do you set your skill levels of players of your game? Now normally you would just use the actual...

Date: 06/28/2012

Hover Buttons, totally cool. Totally badly documented, I infer this from the search result for Hover...

Date: 06/19/2012

Hover buttons, pretty cool, but not well explained in the documentation that I have found. ...

Date: 06/17/2012

If you like the old style shooters then this one is for you!  Lost Gardens has updates the...

Date: 06/16/2012

Lost Gardens is an awesome web site/Blog. Here are some of the links to the graphics:...

Date: 06/15/2012

Ok, I copyright the idea of Irate Dolphins as a game series as of today: Irate Dolphins @2012. ...

Date: 06/15/2012

I really like Expression Design 4, and one of the things that is hidden in the samples folder is the...

Date: 06/15/2012

https://www.kinecthacks.net/skiranger-beta-released/ Check it out. I was wrong, there are some really...

Date: 06/11/2012

Really.  David Rousset a fellow blogger make this a couple of years ago, and it works with the...

Date: 06/10/2012

Oh boy, here is a very serious use of Sharepoint and Speech Services to read-out files.  Check...

Date: 06/09/2012

First off start by carefully following Dan Fernandez’s video series on setting up your Kinect...

Date: 06/08/2012

This looks a fun game, I am going to get it and play it!  Check out the video! Enough said.

Date: 06/07/2012

Alice Pang is demonstrating Windows at the following Microsoft Stores: Wednesday, May 30 Mission...

Date: 05/29/2012

Part 2: https://aka.ms/PushyNotification No matter what I have said in the past, XNA is going to be...

Date: 05/26/2012

First of all, you will need to enter a Publisher name in the Properties\WMAppManifest.xml file....

Date: 05/25/2012

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so lazy, but then how can you be a true surfer and work hard at...

Date: 05/22/2012

Mech Commander, an interesting idea that I have been carrying around for awhile, unlike the other...

Date: 05/15/2012

MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX and MathML that works in all modern...

Date: 05/10/2012

Well this was a big duh!  I had installed the most current Kinect SDK v1 and it would not...

Date: 05/02/2012

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