Silverlight Games

Defend Stuff: A Silverlight 2 Game

RogerGuess — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:34:00 GMT

Defend Stuff is a tower defense game written in Silverlight 2. There is this ‘stuff’ that you are supposed to protect from the ‘bad guys’. You have rocket turrets, machine guns, and a seismic disruptor thingy. You can place turrets throughout the map as long as you do not block all paths preventing the enemy from getting to the stuff. Yes, the goal is to stop them, but blocking them would be rude. You need to blow them up instead. Click HERE to play.

SilverLander: A Silverlight 2 Game (updated for Beta 2)

RogerGuess — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:26:00 GMT

This was my first Silverlight game. I have now updated it for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ( here is the Beta 1 version ). The game counts down and begins the lander on approach from the top left of the screen. Your job is to bring the lander to a safe slow (and upright) landing on the surface inside the highlighted landing zone. Each level increases difficulty by increasing gravity, increasing initial velocity, decreasing available fuel, and a decreasing landing zone radius. Use the arrow keys to rotate and thrust.

I started with the building blocks for the gameloop and use of sprites and vectors from Bill Reiss demos on SilverlightRocks.

My next steps are:

~~Gravity is currently straight down, so I need to update that to be the center of the moon/object. The game loop adds a vector straight down instead of directly toward the center of the moon.~~ (Done, thx to Bill Reiss who has way more physics experience than me)
Make magnitude of gravity relative to the proximity to the moon, rather than a constant.
There is a random math error during the game loop: you may experience it when the ship just jumps completely out of the screen. but appears to continue moving.
Create a formula for scoring, with bonuses for time taken, fuel remaining, difficulty, and slower velocity at landing.
Capture scores on a leader board via a web service.
Create a 'instrument panel' for indicators; speed, descent rate, remaining fuel, attitude, range to surface, etc.
Improve location of messages on the screen.

SilverLander: A Silverlight 2 Game

RogerGuess — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:59:00 GMT

This was my first Silverlight game. I have now updated it for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 ( here is the Beta 2 version ). The game counts down and begins the lander on approach from the top left of the screen. Your job is to bring the lander to a safe slow (and upright) landing on the surface inside the highlighted landing zone. Each level increases difficulty by increasing gravity, increasing initial velocity, decreasing available fuel, and a decreasing landing zone radius. Use the arrow keys to rotate and thrust.

I started with the building blocks for the gameloop and use of sprites and vectors from Bill Reiss demos on SilverlightRocks.

My next steps are:

~~Gravity is currently straight down, so I need to update that to be the center of the moon/object. The game loop adds a vector straight down instead of directly toward the center of the moon.~~ (Done, thx to Bill Reiss who has way more physics experience than me)
Make magnitude of gravity relative to the proximity to the moon, rather than a constant.
There is a random math error during the game loop: you may experience it when the ship just jumps completely out of the screen. but appears to continue moving.
Create a formula for scoring, with bonuses for time taken, fuel remaining, difficulty, and slower velocity at landing.
Capture scores on a leader board via a web service.
Create a 'instrument panel' for indicators; speed, descent rate, remaining fuel, attitude, range to surface, etc.
Improve location of messages on the screen.

SilverLander: A Silverlight Game

RogerGuess — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:22:00 GMT

I updated this to Silverlight 2 Beta 2 HERE

Here is my first Silverlight game. The game counts down and begins the lander on approach from the top left of the screen. Your job is to bring the lander to a safe slow (and upright) landing on the surface inside the highlighted landing zone. Each level increases difficulty by increasing gravity, increasing initial velocity, decreasing available fuel, and a decreasing landing zone radius.

I started with the building blocks for the gameloop and use of sprites and vectors from Bill Reiss demos on SilverlightRocks.

My next steps are:

Gravity is currently straight down, so I need to update that to be the center of the moon/object. The game loop adds a vector straight down instead of directly toward the center of the moon.
There is a random math error durring the game loop: you may experience it when the ship just jumps completely out of the screen. but appears to continue moving.
Create a formula for scoring, with bonuses for time taken, fuel remaining, difficulty, and slower velocity at landing.
Capture scores on a leader board via a web service.
Create a 'instrument pannel' for indicators; speed, descent rate, remaining fuel, attitude, range to surface, etc.
Improve location of messages on the screen.

>>>>> Updated this from 1.1 to Silverlight 2, see here >> http://silverlightaddict.com/blogs/silverlightgames/archive/2008/06/05/silverlander-a-silverlight-2-game.aspx

SpaceRocks "With Friggin Laser Beams"

RogerGuess — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:01:00 GMT

I updated Bill Reiss demo on SpaceRocks to include firing at the asteroids. If you have not checked out his demos's yet, be sure to visit SilverlightRocks. He got it all started, and I just added one extra step ( Keep em' coming Bill! ). I added the XAML for a simple laser bolt, and am treating it just as the other sprites (ship/asteroids) with additional checks for collision. The keys A,D,and W control the ship. Use the space bar to fire.

Note: This demo requires Silverlight 1.1.

Silverlight Games 101

RogerGuess — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:21:00 GMT

Bill Reiss has posted some excellent demos for Silverlight 1.1 on Silverlight Games 101. He includes samples, instructions, and even full Visual Studio 2008 solutions zipped up and ready use. He includes some very usefull utilities for dealing with vectors, sprites, and a game loop. Be sure to take a look at his SLG101Utilities.