Some days ago I discovered this very promising platform for game developers.

“What is ExEn?
Currently ExEn is an implementation of a subset of the Microsoft XNA Framework API that runs on iPhone and Silverlight. It is based on XnaTouch and SilverSprite – but most of the important bits have been rewritten – most importantly the rendering, audio, input and timing systems.”

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Oh, it’s been a while since I have written anything about Little Longhorn! Actually I just discovered that my last post is from 1. February 2010, so that is pretty crazy how fast times goes by. :)
Even though I haven’t written anything about the game a lot have actually happened. In this post I will take you through some of the things we have done these months.

What you see in the middle is our new RadialWheel menu component.

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Bill Reiss over at Silverlight Games 101 did a great video about game development in Silverlight. He provides source and slide show too. If you haven’t already seen it, go do it.

See Bill’s post here: Video – Overview of Silverlight Game Development

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 :)

My conversion of the XNA starter kit to Silverlight, using SilverSprite, have been accepted into the Silverlight Community Gallery. This is really great and I hope it helps somebody out there. You can view it and download the source from the link above.

You can see my original post about the conversion here: http://laumania.net/post/Porting-XNA-starter-kit-Platformere2809d-to-Silverlight-(SilverSprite).aspx

- Enjoy!