17. December 2009 by Mads

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.

Again I would like to thank people who came and hope you found my talk interesting and learned something.

- Enjoy and marry xmas :)

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Jørgen Hansen
Jørgen Hansen Denmark
17. Dec 2009 23:49
Hi Mads, thanks for a great talk on Silverlight. It was my son who joined us. He says hi, and says he enjoyed the session very much, including all the snacks Smile

Thanks for the extra links on kids-friendly programming, we'll look over it during Christmas

/Jørgen
Jørgen Hansen
Jørgen Hansen Denmark
18. Dec 2009 18:48
Hi Mads, thanks for the Silverlight talk. My son says hi - he enjoyed the session very much, including the nice snacks Smile Thanks for the extra links to kids-friendly programming

-jørgen
Mads
Mads United States
18. Dec 2009 23:49
Thanks for coming and thanks for your positive feedback. Smile

Hope you learned something too.
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