Category Archives: Silverlight

Last year while working at “Monolith” I had a short email argument with some upper management folks about the future of Silverlight.  They were all in a panic that “Microsoft was abandoning Silverlight” , and this was just after they … Continue reading →

Earlier this year we predicted that Microsoft would start to focus Silverlight on their own platforms as it loses ground to HTML5.  Well, this recent story on Wired.com points to towards that predictions becoming a reality.   Tim Carmody or … Continue reading →

Microsoft recently released the beta of the Windows 7 development tools, and Silverlight is big part of that release.   Silverlight can used in conjunction with the XNA framework which gives Windows 7 Mobile apps access to Xbox Live, among other … Continue reading →

Microsoft has finally released their new version of Silverlight, Silverlight 3.  All the dev tools are now available here:  http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ . However, if you want to develop on a Mac, you  will need to use something like Eclipse4SL, which, when … Continue reading →

The guys over at SilverArcade have launched their portal dedicated to games made in Silverlight.  They are offering a $.50 eCPM, which is quite good. Since they have acceptsed a couple of our games, and since I think it is … Continue reading →

I decided to try out the newly announced Elclipse Tools for Silverlight this morning to see if it was true that a real development environment for Silverlight Web apps now existed for Mac OSX. My journey started by visiting the … Continue reading →

Sorry it has been a while since I’ve posted any news about Silverlight. We’ve been busy finishing off our Flash games from the 4K Contest, and working on our new Video Podcast. First, the really big news is that Microsoft … Continue reading →

OK, so I missed last week, sorry. I was finishing my 4K Flash game for the Game Poetry 4K Game Competition. I’m now working on converting that game into Silverlight. Anyway, that’s a good, quick segue into our first topic: … Continue reading →

Our good friend Simon Carless just clued-us into another Silverlight Game contest: Dr. Dobbs Challenge Deuce . There are two way to compete: 1. Simply create new levels in their existing game2. Create your own Silverlight game from the samples … Continue reading →

Sorry, I missed a week of this mash-up, but I’m back again with another entry chock-full of Silverlight Game Development Goodness. This week we check out new entries in the Silverlight Game Development Blogosphere. The guys over at Silverlight Games … Continue reading →

In the past couple years I have done my share of AS3 work, but since I have so many unfinished game engines in AS2, I have maintained a good amount of work in that version of ActionScript because I already … Continue reading →

Today it my daughter Kaitlyn’s (Katie) 3rd birthday.  In my ongoing quest to make sure to create games that my girls can both play, and (hopefully) will look back fondly on as they grow-up, I decided to create a very … Continue reading →

Silverlight Interweb Mash-Up Feb.9, 2009 Last week I had several people email me and ask to get their sites added to the weekly round-up. I say “GLADLY I Will add them! ” The only way to get a bead on … Continue reading →

It must have been a slow week for Microsoft’s Silverlight.net editorial team, because our 2-week test project, Zamboozal Silverlight was featured today in Microsoft’s Silverlight.net Showcase.  Even though we are pretty sure that nearly every entry Silverlight.net receives gets featured,  … Continue reading →

It is still very quiet on the Silverlight game development front this week. However, we will forge through as we believe this platform is going to be very significant very soon. Microsoft has not added any more games to their … Continue reading →

Excuse me for being a bit nostalgic, but tomorrow is my birthday. Actually, since my brother Jeff and I are twins, it is both our birthday’s. Anyhow, nearly 20 years ago Jeff and I created our first real "finished" and … Continue reading →

Silverlight Game Development Interweb Mash-Up : Jan 21st, 2009 Things are still a bit slow on the Silverlight game development side, but we plan to help liven things up with this weekly column devoted to all things tagged GAME in … Continue reading →

This might seem like a very simple topic, but it is something that confounded me for a few hours while translating a Flash AS2 game to Silverlight 2: Random Numbers. For many games, the concept of random numbers is essential. … Continue reading →

Silverlight Game Development Interweb Mash-Up, Jan. 11 2009 Now that we are expanding 8bitrocket.com to more indie game dev technologies, we will also expand our world famous “interweb mash-ups” to those technologies. Don’t worry Flash fans though, Jeff’s regular Flash … Continue reading →

Flash To Silverlight : Guess The Number Game Part 1 : Flash For my first foray into Flash->Silverlight Game development, I will create a very simple “Guess The Number” game in Flash and then discuss how to do nearly the … Continue reading →

Flash To Silverlight : Guess The Number Game: Part 2 – Silverlight For my first foray into Flash->Silverlight Game development, I will create a very simple “Guess The Number” game in Flash and then discuss how to do nearly the … Continue reading →