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Creating a Hidden Object Game in Silverlight 3
   Added on  November 10, 2009  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

Mark Tucker created a series of articles where he shows how to create a hidden object game using Silverlight 3, behaviors, actions, and triggers.

Tags:   How to  Expression Blend  Code  Articles
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Adding pixel shader effects in silverlight 3
   Added on  September 24, 2009  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Dean Gifford from Rocketpanda guides us through setting things up to start using one of the new features of Silverlight 3: pixel shader effects.

Tags:   How to  Visual Studio  Expression Blend
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Importing Photoshop Files in Blend 3
   Added on  July 19, 2009  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

I found Janete Perez's posts on how to import Adobe Photoshop files in Expression Blend 3 Preview very detailed and explicative. She starts with an introduction to slowly cover the many elements of graphics editing in a total of 3 posts. Thank you Janete!

Tags:   How to  Expression Blend  Photoshop
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Including a highscore control in a game hosted on Mashooo
   Added on  May 12, 2009  in category  Development  by  Silverlight Girl  

I posted the solution I've been giving for some of the game developers' concern about having a highscore control in a server other than Mashooo's. It contains instructions on how to make cross domain calls.

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Customizing the Look of a Radio Button in Expression Blend
   Added on  May 11, 2009  in category  Development  by  Silverlight Girl  

I found this tutorial extremely useful for casual game development, where many times we want to prompt the player to choose one of many options like a level of difficulty or the number of players, to mention only a couple. It shows how to change the look and feel of radio buttons to make them fit the design and theme of our game. By Jory Schossau.

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Farseer Physics Engine based game Krashlander and path to mini language conversion
   Added on  May 5, 2009  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

Jeff Weber talks about his new game Krashlander and on the way shares valuable information and resources on path geometry to point list conversion in Silverlight which can be an issue when designing Silverlight games. Among other things Jeff posts code that enables you to take path objects convert them to mini-language and then back into path objects.

Tags:   C-Sharp  Tips and Tricks  How to  Code
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Game Programming with Silverlight 2 Presentation
   Added on  April 13, 2009  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

An Audio and Powerpoint walkthrough from GameFest 2008 on how to build a game with Silverlight 2 using Visual Studio 2008. It is not the most recent stuff and its a pity there is no video included. Topics include creating game UI, integrating media, setting up game loop logic, animation, web services and multiplayer networking.

Tags:   How to  Tutorials
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Using keys to control a sprite
   Added on  April 4, 2009  in category  Development  by  Silverlight Girl  

Gavin Wignall shows how you can move a sprite by capturing the ‘Keydown‘ event and applying a variable to the Canvas.setLeft & Right properties. His example is cleverly graced with an animation that gives the illusion of rotation.

Tags:   Tips and Tricks  How to  Animation
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Animation Easings in Silverlight 3
   Added on  March 26, 2009  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Nicolay Raychev explains how to create easing animations in Silverlight 3. He already wrote a storyboard with tons of combinations so we don't even have to start trying from scratch. A great way to get started and play with the possibilities.

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Bounce effect in Blend - Using easing to apply acceleration or inertia to an animation in Silverlight
   Added on  March 21, 2009  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

I made a cool discovery today: Gavin Wignall's blog called Silverlight Buzz. He has many thorough posts about things Silverlight but my favorite right now has to be the one where he explains how to use Easing to apply acceleration or inertia to an animation in Silverlight. The use of easing in animation can be confusing but Gavin illustrates his example in a fool proof way that makes it all crystal clear.

Tags:   Tips and Tricks  How to  Expression Blend  Animation  Tutorials
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Shadow Breaker Effect with XAML
   Added on  March 5, 2009  in category  Design  by  AGKDesign  

How to create a cool shadow effect to separate parts of you designs

Tags:   How to  Expression Design  Tutorials  Xaml
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Developing a Casual Game with Silverlight 2
   Added on  January 31, 2009  in category  Development  by  RogerVH  

I found this very useful. It's an article series that cover the following: Module 1: Getting Started – Architecture / Framework Module 2: Movement and collision detection Module 3: Design – Sprites, boards and dialogs Module 4: Animations and sound Module 5: Initialization and Deployment Module 6: Advanced concepts (Physics, Multiplayer, Optimization) I believe the last one so far is module 3. Interesting.

Tags:   How to  Expression Blend  Tutorials  Xaml  Code
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Cutting shapes in Expression Blend
   Added on  January 17, 2009  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Learn how to cut shapes in Expression Blend by using a set of geometric operations.

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How to build an asteroids inspired Silverlight game
   Added on  January 14, 2009  in category  Development  by  Silverlight Girl  

Thorough explanation (source included) on how to create a spaceship game in Visual Studio using collision detection.

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Drop shadow effect in Blend - Part 2
   Added on  December 29, 2008  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

A complement to my post on how to create a drop shadow effect using only Expression Blend 2. It's a tutorial describing how to modify fill gradients and opacity masks to achieve nice looking graphics.

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A simple Silverlight game particle system
   Added on  December 23, 2008  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

Particles are a key part of game programming. They are used in explosions, smoke effects, and many other types of effects.

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Getting Started with Silverlight Game Development
   Added on  December 20, 2008  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

A list of resources by Andy Beaulieu to help you get started with Silverlight game programming.

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Introduction to game programming in Silverlight
   Added on  December 19, 2008  in category  Development  by  APIJunkie  

Introduction to game programming in Silverlight. A first in a series of tutorials about Silverlight programming. The series is based on Kongregate’s Flash game programming tutorials.

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Glowing edges with animated clipping paths
   Added on  December 18, 2008  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Clever way to achieve a glow/shine/burn/sparkle/etc effect on edges by animating paths in Expression Blend.

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Graphically enrich your fonts design in Expression Blend
   Added on  December 18, 2008  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Very easy way to modify fonts appearance by converting them to paths.

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Creating graphics for a Silverlight game
   Added on  December 18, 2008  in category  Design  by  Silverlight Girl  

Nice and simple explanation about creating graphics for a Silverlight game.

Tags:   How to  Expression Blend  Animation
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