The 16. Dec. 2009 I did a talk about game development in Silverlight 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Thanks to all the people showing up, hope you had some good hours too :)
One thing that I found especially cool were that one of the attendees was a 10-12 year old boy (he brought his dad of course :) ). He already did a game in Game Maker he told me, very cool!
To the dad of this boy: I told you about some “kids programming language” that I couldn’t remember the name of. I goggled it this morning and found it: http://phrogram.com/kpl.aspx it might be a good start into the world of programming.
The other thing I told you about were GarageGames, take a look at this it comes with a WYSIWYG-like IDE, but it also have it’s own scripting language (similar to javascript) that you can code in. For more info take a look at it here: http://www.torquepowered.com/products/torque-2d
Slides and demos
I have put up the 4 demos, 1 Physics Helper demo for Blend and the powerpoint file, all in a zip file which can be downloaded from here: http://laumania.net/downloads/GameDevelopmentInSilverlight.zip
For the ones who are interested here is the list of, more or less game related, blogs/persons I read/follow.
- http://www.farseergames.com/blog/
- http://www.cameronalbert.com/
- http://blogs.silverarcade.com/silverlight-games-101/
- http://www.andybeaulieu.com/
- http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx – The book we talked about is written by this guy, Mike Snow, read more here
- http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/52.aspx
Again I would like to thank people who came and hope you found my talk interesting and learned something.
– Enjoy and marry xmas :)