Silverlight 5 beta is coming very soon. I want to explore Silverlight Game development skills. Could you please suggest some good sites where I can learn Silverlight game development easily. I Googled and Binged for the same but did not get good results.
Thanks in Advance.
I don't have anything for SL 5, but Mike Snow's blog has many game programming tips: http://www.michaelsnow.com/
The site used to be here: http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx
For example, here's a Rendering event for your main game loop: http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/09/29/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-50-main-game-loop-revisited.aspx
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I am trying to learn Silverlight 4.0...i have 3+ years of Exp in .NET but do not know about silverlight...
So request you to suggest me how to start to learn Silverlight 4.0...
I there any good book available in market which teach me or any url...
Also i want some dummy expamples..
Thankx in advance.
Google is your best friend. There are so manny resources available for Silverlight, so that is is impossible to list them all here. Some of my personal recommendations are
wrox silverlight 4 book
Channel 9 has allot of videos
concerning silverlight
browse msdn tutorials:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163404.aspx
and last but not lease
silverlight.net =>
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/
And when you think you have a good understanding of the workings of silverlight / WPF you can switch to the MVVM pattern:
http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2010/04/model-view-viewmodel-mvvm-explained.html
Check the official website of SilverLight which is http://www.silverlight.net/.
It contains videos and tutorial that you can start with.
Does anyone know of a good open source toolkit that allows level designer and graphic designer or someone with basic programming experience to create multiplayer online Role Playing Game ? The game can be a simple 2D interface in a 2d virtual world.
I know Microsoft have a starter kit something like the following :
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/starterkit/roleplayinggame
that allows developer to create RPG game running on XBox platform but i am looking more on multiplayer role playing game on the web platform where player can play directly with their browser.
regards
Andrew
Tried these??...
RPG MAKER for XP
http://tkool.jp/products/rpgxp/eng/
ECLIPSE MMORPG creator
http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/index.php
Also as a stand-alone game developer (which i presume you are) i would suggest You go through these for a good grasp of the challenges ahead:
Game Development & Production
Game Developer's Open Source Handbook
UPDATE: You might be interested in Quake-Live
For a few sample of Quake Live on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quake+live+demo&aq=f
RPG Toolkit seems to be a good one too
For 2D single-player:
http://rpgjs.com/
For 2D MMO:
http://browserquest.mozilla.org/
Unity3D is free for you to develop games for the web (and desktop I think), you can later upgrade your account in order to deploy your game into more platforms. Really easy to use and the programing is friendly enough for you to learn (lots of tutorials everywhere).
Pokemon Essentials is good for pokemon games, but I have used it for many other RPG games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnzaEhH5cI <-- It's in the description
I am starting to learn Silverlight game programming, and was wondering if anyone knows of some good tutorials or resources to get started with. I'm just beginning, so guides that teach concepts thoroughly would be appreciated.
Try Mike Snow's book on Silverlight game programming:
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Silverlight-Michael-Snow/dp/1598639064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247768957&sr=8-1
It includes Silverlight 3 info too. For general Silverlight programming I like Silverlight Unleashed.
Blue Rose Games is an online host of silverlight games and has a few tutorials on the subject
I don't think there's anything particularly special about writing games in Silverlight. I would just read any game resources I could get my hands on and then ask a particular question if I had trouble performing the same operations in Silverlight.
As the title says :)
I've been waiting for Wrox to release "Professional silverlight 2.0" for ages but it's been delayed by nearly a year and I want to have a Play with silverlight.
Ignoring the silverlight.net site, does anyone know of any good beginners tutorials that focus on coding in Visual Studio instead of Blend?
Jon
I'm currently running through this set of tutorials. Have been quite useful as a very basic primer into the world of Silverlight.
I wrote a 57-page article for Wrox Press called "Jumping from ASP.NET to Silverlight 2". It is focused on ramping up on the basics, and doesn't involve Blend. And it's seven bucks.
Link is here
Jesse Liberty's blog has masses of useful learning material including tutorials and videos - highly recommended.
Take a look at this MSDN Silverlight page.
While not strictly a tutorial, my collegue has been reading Pro Silverlight in C# 2008 and from what I heard, he's very pleased with it. Sure, it's not free, but maybe it'll hold you over until Professional silverlight 2.0 is released? :)
I've been looking at Silverlight 2 In Action and Silverlight 2 Unleashed and pretty happy with both
While not exactly tutorials, the videos on the MS official Silverlight website has good videos on all kinds of topics.
start here
http://silverlight.net/Learn/
And watch the many screencasts here
http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=10
Videos have been very helpful to me:
http://channel9.msdn.com/continuum/tutorials/
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/9b002e70-78c2-4741-9093-93e42228d8d1
I'd like to get my feet wet in Silverlight. I think all the reading and tutorials in the world don't work nearly as well as a real project. Plus I've done tutorials, read some books, listened to podcasts and so on. I'm ready for the next step. I'm not sure how to make that step though. I'm certainly not ready to put "Silverlight development" on the resumé with any confidence. Some options:
get on elance and make some lowball bids for RIAs, assuming that part of my compensation is the experience
craigslist
find a designer who needs a programmer - already asked all my designer friends ;)
I'd like to find a non-profit ideally, it'd be cool if I felt like I was helping while I was learning. But that seems like a longshot. I'd really want it to be a publicly facing website so I can use it as a bit of a portfolio piece. And I'd be willing to work for free, or a sliding scale sort of fee. I'm not a designer, so I'd need some help in that dept. I've got some experience with that, but it was so long ago and I don't delude myself about my skills.
I've got about 4 yrs experience in ASP.NET, Winforms and C#.
Suggestions for finding this mythical project?
There is no shortage of non-profits who would love to have someone build software for them, and they don't care what technology it is (this is more or less the sentiment of any customer). I found a non-profit that has a technology need and I'm using ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight to fulfill that need, though admittedly with free time at a premium it's not progressing nearly as fast as a "paid" project. So, my advice is to find a non-profit whose mission you believe in and just send them an email. I doubt they'll turn you down.
Alternatively, help me out! :)
My first, and unfinished, project in Silverlight was started in November 2007. I was designing a poll map of the US in which the user could see realtime vote count, hover over a state and get a detailed breakdown. Similar to John King's Magic Map.
My newborn twins were three months old at the time, so I didn't have a chance to finish it but it was great experience. Silverlight is great for very visual applications. Some more ideas:
Anything geographical, like the polling stuff. There is a free XAML USA map available, Google "XAML USA map".
Graphs, charts, etc. There are some third-party controls available for this or you could experiment with rolling your own.
Drag and Drop type interfaces can really pop with Silverlight.
Games! (My personal favorite)
Here are some ideas:
Make a easily-skinnable shopping cart in Silverlight that integrates with an e-commerce back-end system
I'd try to join an existing Silverlight open source project as a contributor like
this Silverlight Ribbon project on CodePlex.