Game Programming at scriptedfun » silverlight http://www.scriptedfun.com Game Programming for Beginners: Video Tutorials, Source Code, and Articles Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:45:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Poor Man’s Flash http://www.scriptedfun.com/poor-mans-flash/ http://www.scriptedfun.com/poor-mans-flash/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:31 +0000 Chuck http://www.scriptedfun.com/?p=113 John Hattan has written a review of Express Animator on GameDev.net, and Flex SDK / Silverlight developers who do not have access to the corresponding designer’s tools (Flash / Expression Blend) might find his review interesting. Express Animator, as stated in the product name, is a tool that allows you to make animations, and publish them in SWF format for Flash, or XAML format for Silverlight. This basically allows you to make animations for your Flex / Silverlight project for just US$39, instead of paying US$699 for Flash or US$499 for Expression Blend. You won’t be getting all the features of the more expensive products, but you might be surprised to know that Express Animator has features which the other two do not, such as “hierarchical bones”. From the review:

In fact, the combination of Express Animator with the free Flex or MTASC compiler would make for a pretty good “Poor Man’s Flash” product that could be used to make full Flash CS3 quality games, and for quite a bit less than the $699 that you’d spend on a new license of Flash CS3.

]]> http://www.scriptedfun.com/poor-mans-flash/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Sorry, e-mail subscribers! And some thoughts on web games with Python… http://www.scriptedfun.com/sorry-e-mail-subscribers-and-some-thoughts-on-web-games-with-python/ http://www.scriptedfun.com/sorry-e-mail-subscribers-and-some-thoughts-on-web-games-with-python/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 15:19:45 +0000 Chuck http://www.scriptedfun.com/?p=106 Hi everyone! First of all, I would like to apologize to all the e-mail subscribers who received a bunch of old posts in their e-mail recently. I’ve been tweaking my site to feature the content people find most useful on the front page, and this had the unintended side effect of sending out an e-mail containing the “front-paged” articles. I hope that this didn’t bother you.

Yes, it has been a very long time since I posted on Python. As I have said some time earlier, I’m trying to refocus this site to deal with more general game development. A side effect of this is, I’ve spent a lot more time coding and learning, and no time writing :( . In particular, I’ve been looking at writing games using Adobe’s Flex SDK.

I find working with Flex appealing because of the potential of the output to reach a large number of people. But Python is a language that is very close to my heart, and I’d be very interested in a Python based environment that would allow me to make games for the web. Fortunately, such an environment exists already, in the form of Microsoft’s Silverlight, paired up with IronPython. I’ve been dabbling with this platform as well, and I hope to write games for it once the platform matures.

If you’re interested in learning more about writing web games with Python, I recommend the excellent article Creating a Game Using Python and Silverlight 1.1. Are there any other resources about game programming using Silverlight/Python that you would recommend?

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