Silverlight Games 101 - All Comments

re: The Start of a Game Helper Class Library

tfisher — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:39:59 GMT

I converted the GameHelper class to VB. But I'm getting a minor error with the following line:

parent.Resources.Add(gameLoop)

Value does not fall within expected range

Public Sub New(ByVal parent As FrameworkElement, ByVal milliseconds As Double)

gameLoop.Duration = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(milliseconds)

gameLoop.SetValue(FrameworkElement.NameProperty, "gameloop")

parent.Resources.Add(gameLoop)

AddHandler gameLoop.Completed, AddressOf gameLoop_Completed

End Sub

re: Back to the Beginning, Sorta

snyhol — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:22:35 GMT

Thanks for updating your tutorial!!! There were breaking changes between 1.1 Alpha and 2 Beta 1. This tutorial is the best silverlight game tutorial I've seen!

re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

snyhol — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:18:34 GMT

Bill updated this post to Silverlight 2 Beta 1. The update at: silverlightrocks.com/.../my-development-environment-for-silverlight-2-beta-1.aspx

re: Renewed as MVP for another year, with a bit of a change

kierepka — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:06:02 GMT

Congratulations

re: Keyboard Input for Silverlight 2 Games

Bill Reiss — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:27:23 GMT

Good question. I've asked about this a few times, and at one point it sounded like they were considering providing a way to do this. I really don't know the status of this and I think it's safer to assume it won't be available.

For my Dr. Popper game when I added high scores and the ability to enter your name, I toggle back to windowed mode when showing that dialog. This of course isn't acceptable if you want to use the keyboard for game input, like in this sample.

I was thinking that if they were to implement keyboard in full screen, they would probably pop up a warning and force the user to click ok to confirm that they know they are going into fullscreen with keyboard enabled. I'll try to find out the status of this when I go to Redmond in a couple of weeks, and if I can share any info I will.

re: Keyboard Input for Silverlight 2 Games

robburke — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:24:55 GMT

Hey Bill -- Is there any known way yet around the fact that when you go fullscreen, you lose Keyboard support in Silverlight? Game developers using Silverlight will surely be lamenting this security limitation: "When a Silverlight plug-in is displayed in full-screen mode, keyboard events are prevented from being passed to keyboard event handlers in the application. The only valid keyboard input that is acted upon is the set of keystrokes that return the Silverlight plug-in to embedded mode. This limitation of keyboard input during full-screen mode is a security feature, and is intended to minimize the possibility of unintended information being entered by a user."

re: The Microsoft MVP Summit 2008 starts 2 weeks from today

kierepka — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:51:44 GMT

Nice! I will try to find you ;)

re: Another Silverlight 2 Game Programming Blog

msnow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:03:03 GMT

Thanks Bill! Looking forward to collaborting on game development for Silvelight.

-Mike

re: The Start of a Game Helper Class Library

smith734 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:11 GMT

Thanks! Keep 'em coming!

re: The DispatcherTimer Interval Property

kierepka — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:02:55 GMT

Nice I'm waiting for this new loop technique ;)

re: Creating a Game Loop Part 1

Bill Reiss — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:55:16 GMT

See Part 2 :)

re: Creating a Game Loop Part 1

snowman — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:07:22 GMT

What if you want to speed up or slow down the animation? Seems that the speed will change depending upon your CPU.

re: Second Place for Farseer Physics for Silverlight at MIX08 Show Off

jneubeck — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:36:36 GMT

Bill, Congratulations on this honor. We hope some day to have to opportunity to lever the Farseer physics engine on a future casual game we develop.

-Joel

re: Zombomatic 3000 Silverlight Game

jneubeck — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:34:43 GMT

Bill,

Check out our second game we created for Miniclip.com. <a href="tinyurl.com/2scoz3">Tunnel Trouble</a> was built around the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 framework. I look forward to your comments on the game.

-Joel

<a href="http://joel.neubeck.net">http://joel.neubeck.net</a>

re: Creating a Game Loop Part 1

OmegaMythos — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:25:33 GMT

Great! I look forward to it!