Building games based on Silverlight and Expressions
Building games for everyone, especially beginning programmers.
Software in the cloud that builds Windows 8 Store Apps (and Phone as well!)
TouchDevelop is a new tool that is being tested by Microsoft Research. It isn’t JavaScript, it...
Date: 11/27/2012
Scirra.Com/Construct 2: Quick way to build HTML5 Games for Windows 8
Scirra.com is an amazing tool to create your game ideas quickly. Scirra.com’s tool called...
Date: 10/22/2012
Free: HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals Training, seriously awesome
If you need to brush up on your HTML: HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals This is a nice way to brush up...
Date: 09/21/2012
Free: JavaScript training, comments say this one is the BEST
If you are just starting with JavaScript, then you will need to work through the 21 short videos on...
Date: 09/19/2012
Free: Win8 Game Kit
One of my fellow technology evangelists has written a little library of javascript for use in...
Date: 09/18/2012
IE 10 Preview, you should read it! and use it
IE 10 Preview, wow, this is a great way to learn more about Modern Design and get into the right...
Date: 09/16/2012
Free Windows 8 help and software tools
Please click on the links and check out these offers, they cost you nothing and might help you make...
Date: 09/12/2012
First Prize in Imagine Cup: $50,000
Get signed up at https://www.imaginecup.com NOW. And it’s THREE, that’s right 3 $50,000 first...
Date: 08/29/2012
Free Online Hackathon! This is a first
Hey sign up for this free Hackathon, win prizes (as described in the link): Free Online Hackathon!...
Date: 08/15/2012
Free! 21 Part Free tutorial on HTML5 and CSS, must read for game designers
If you read no other free tutorial this summer then this is the one you need to work through. ...
Date: 08/06/2012
Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs
In the current environment of game design you can get away with flash and dash game design, that is...
Date: 07/21/2012
Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 2
If you are reading this blog, good, if you aren’t, then how did you get to this part of the...
Date: 07/20/2012
Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 1
Usually one doesn’t encounter the use of the product PowerPoint and TFS in the same sentence. ...
Date: 07/19/2012
Game Design: Database using LightSwitch
One of the problems with working with free tools is that they are limited, unless you know how...
Date: 07/18/2012
Game Idea: Polar Bear Cubs save the world
Ok that’s it, plus this video, could be a great idea. Avoid the issue with the fact that mom...
Date: 07/17/2012
C++ Multiplayer games
Nothing new with that, except is it easier to build multiplayer games with Windows 8 and...
Date: 07/16/2012
Game Design: Teaching your game to fight
First rule of Fight Club: Don’t talk about fight club. Corollary: In any group of men the most...
Date: 06/30/2012
Machine Theorems: Determine if a player can reach the goal in your game
In the paper: Learning to Solve Game Trees , it isn’t about you learning how to solve game trees but...
Date: 06/29/2012
Free paper: Skill leveling players of your game
How do you set your skill levels of players of your game? Now normally you would just use the actual...
Date: 06/28/2012
Kinect Hover Buttons Explained
Hover Buttons, totally cool. Totally badly documented, I infer this from the search result for Hover...
Date: 06/19/2012
Designing for the Windows Kinect: Hover Buttons
Hover buttons, pretty cool, but not well explained in the documentation that I have found. ...
Date: 06/17/2012
What happened to Tyrian? It lives on!
If you like the old style shooters then this one is for you! Lost Gardens has updates the...
Date: 06/16/2012
Lost Gardens: Excellent 2D graphics and lost no more
Lost Gardens is an awesome web site/Blog. Here are some of the links to the graphics:...
Date: 06/15/2012
HTML 5 Games: Irate Dolphins returns
Ok, I copyright the idea of Irate Dolphins as a game series as of today: Irate Dolphins @2012. ...
Date: 06/15/2012
Playing with your Peas: Cool graphics hidden in Expression Design 4
I really like Expression Design 4, and one of the things that is hidden in the samples folder is the...
Date: 06/15/2012
Kinect Based Game: Ski without the leg breaking!
https://www.kinecthacks.net/skiranger-beta-released/ Check it out. I was wrong, there are some really...
Date: 06/11/2012
Silverlight 4 based Platformer level designer using Azure
Really. David Rousset a fellow blogger make this a couple of years ago, and it works with the...
Date: 06/10/2012
Kinect and Sharepoint? Serious use of Kinect, again not a game.
Oh boy, here is a very serious use of Sharepoint and Speech Services to read-out files. Check...
Date: 06/09/2012
Kinect Based Game: Getting started video mysteries
First off start by carefully following Dan Fernandez’s video series on setting up your Kinect...
Date: 06/08/2012
South Park XBox 360 game, Trey Parker and Matt Stone talk about their game
This looks a fun game, I am going to get it and play it! Check out the video! Enough said.
Date: 06/07/2012
See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store!
Alice Pang is demonstrating Windows at the following Microsoft Stores: Wednesday, May 30 Mission...
Date: 05/29/2012
Be pushy with Push Notification in your Game: Class scope variables and HttpNotificationChannel
Part 2: https://aka.ms/PushyNotification No matter what I have said in the past, XNA is going to be...
Date: 05/26/2012
Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Application Manifest File
First of all, you will need to enter a Publisher name in the Properties\WMAppManifest.xml file....
Date: 05/25/2012
HTML 5 Game Design: EaselJS, SpriteAnimation made easy
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so lazy, but then how can you be a true surfer and work hard at...
Date: 05/22/2012
Mech Commander, could it be rebuilt for Windows 8?
Mech Commander, an interesting idea that I have been carrying around for awhile, unlike the other...
Date: 05/15/2012
HTML 5 and JavaScript: MathJax the follow on to jsMath, game idea
MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX and MathML that works in all modern...
Date: 05/10/2012
Kinect not working on one of my test systems, finally got it working…
Well this was a big duh! I had installed the most current Kinect SDK v1 and it would not...
Date: 05/02/2012