10 Minute Game Programming Tutorial: Silverlight - Shootorial #1 Conversion (C#)
Welcome to the first of many Silverlight game programming tutorials on dieajax.com. In a burst of originality and creativity, for this initial set of tutorials, I decided to convert Kongregate’s excellent beginning Flash game programming tutorial series to Silverlight. The first of these let’s the developer get their feet wet by walking them through drawing a space ship on the screen that they can move with the arrow keys. These tutorials focus on simplicity, clarity and “getting something to work”, rather than writing battle-hardened, production-ready code. However, as time goes on, the tutorials will certainly get more advanced and I, personally, have plans to create and give away the source code to as many fully-playable Silverlight games as I can make.
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Introduction to game programming in Silverlight
Even with an initial release less than two years ago, a thriving community of game developers write games for the Silverlight platform. Still, the Flash platform probably employs the largest game developer community, so in order to help eager Silverlight game developers enter the fray, I will convert Kongregate’s Flash game programming tutorials to Silverlight. Like the rest of my Silverlight tutorials, these tutorials will not require you to install Visual Studio. And, while informative, the Kongregate tutorials (necessarily) don’t address the more advanced concepts in game programming ( i.e. multi-threaded game loops, 3D rendering, etc). I will attempt to address these topics and more in future Silverlight game programming tutorials. Read more
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