Robinsonweb

I love learning new stuff, which causes many hours of internet surfing when I should really be doing something else.  My mum used to call them 7 day wonders.

This weeks big thing for me is Silverlight 2.  I have been looking for tutorials on writing games using Silverlight and found some very interesting sites.  Here are a few that I found did focus on games.

The first one is Bluerosegames.com.  If you search for 'Silverlight game tutorial' on google you will currently find it at the no. 1 position.  There is a series of tutorials as listed below

• Getting Started
• Drawing a Sprite
• Creating a Game Loop Part 1
• Creating a Game Loop Part 2
• Game Helper Class Library (easy to use in your own games!)
• Keyboard Input
• Adding Thrust (Making sprites move)
• Generating Asteroids (Lists of sprites)
• An Improved Silverlight Sprite Class
• A Simple Silverlight Particle System

I have read through the bluerosegames tutorials and highly recommend them.  They are written in C# and focus on object oriented methods.  During the tutorials the author takes you through the beginnings of creating an asteriod game.  Excellent for getting you started.

dieAjax have a mini series on creating a shooter game.

For more general Silverlight  tutorials I recommend visiting Microsoft's own Silverlight.net. or searching google for pages of lists of tutorials.