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Building games for everyone, especially beginning programmers. Author: Sam Stokes

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2012 49

  1. Software in the cloud that builds Windows 8 Store Apps (and Phone as well!)
  2. Scirra.Com/Construct 2: Quick way to build HTML5 Games for Windows 8
  3. Free: HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals Training, seriously awesome
  4. Free: JavaScript training, comments say this one is the BEST
  5. Free: Win8 Game Kit
  6. IE 10 Preview, you should read it! and use it
  7. Free Windows 8 help and software tools
  8. First Prize in Imagine Cup: $50,000
  9. Free Online Hackathon! This is a first
  10. Free! 21 Part Free tutorial on HTML5 and CSS, must read for game designers
  11. Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs
  12. Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 2
  13. Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 1
  14. Game Design: Database using LightSwitch
  15. Game Idea: Polar Bear Cubs save the world
  16. C++ Multiplayer games
  17. Game Design: Teaching your game to fight
  18. Machine Theorems: Determine if a player can reach the goal in your game
  19. Free paper: Skill leveling players of your game
  20. Kinect Hover Buttons Explained
  21. Designing for the Windows Kinect: Hover Buttons
  22. What happened to Tyrian? It lives on!
  23. Lost Gardens: Excellent 2D graphics and lost no more
  24. HTML 5 Games: Irate Dolphins returns
  25. Playing with your Peas: Cool graphics hidden in Expression Design 4
  26. Kinect Based Game: Ski without the leg breaking!
  27. Silverlight 4 based Platformer level designer using Azure
  28. Kinect and Sharepoint? Serious use of Kinect, again not a game.
  29. Kinect Based Game: Getting started video mysteries
  30. South Park XBox 360 game, Trey Parker and Matt Stone talk about their game
  31. See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store!
  32. Be pushy with Push Notification in your Game: Class scope variables and HttpNotificationChannel
  33. Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Application Manifest File
  34. HTML 5 Game Design: EaselJS, SpriteAnimation made easy
  35. Mech Commander, could it be rebuilt for Windows 8?
  36. HTML 5 and JavaScript: MathJax the follow on to jsMath, game idea
  37. Kinect not working on one of my test systems, finally got it working…
  38. Getting started with HTML 5 and JavaScript
  39. FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event - 4/23/2012 - Club Nokia @ LA Live... or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it!
  40. List of 6 things that can get you started with Game Design
  41. Free photo tool that is totally cool: ClipLets
  42. 5 ways to make money off of Silverlight 5 based games
  43. Silverlight 5 writers like to say: You can reuse your XNA skills, but can you?
  44. Free shout out for a commenter on my blog
  45. Expression Design: Ellipse, Clone the Ellipse, Cut a Path using the ellipse
  46. MAYNOT BE REALLY: Free Book on HTML 5 game programming and another on animation
  47. 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game
  48. Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother?
  49. Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression

2011 71

  1. Research: Holo Deck from Star Trek, brought to you by Kinect
  2. IE 9, HTML 5 and Video support
  3. Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
  4. Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try
  5. Microsoft Expression Preview for Silverlight 5 with Sketchflow, cool
  6. Silverlight Game Engine?
  7. HTML 5: Canvas as a place to play
  8. Game Design: Abusive Game Design or is it just Lusory?
  9. Testing your game: Determining the Game Playability
  10. Testing your games: Survey for Game Usability
  11. Create games on your Windows Phone 7
  12. Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect
  13. Low Cost eBook: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
  14. HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S
  15. Does Flex suck?
  16. Getting started with Silverlight
  17. Silverlight: Quick and Dirty UX Testing
  18. Silverlight 5: 3D, What the HECK!
  19. Working with animations on the Windows Phone
  20. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Advanced UI, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 6)
  21. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Deployment, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7)
  22. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Host platform interactions, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 5)
  23. HTML 5: Add an audio player to your webpage for Free!
  24. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Using Data, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 4)
  25. Silverlight Free Tutorial Series
  26. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Routed events, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 3)
  27. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Enhancing the UR, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 2)
  28. Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Laying out the UI, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 1)
  29. Silverlight is dead, so says Dan Wahlin
  30. Free Silverlight 5: HTML 5, a comparison
  31. Free Silverlight: HTML 5
  32. People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often!
  33. A future game machine, try it now for free!
  34. HTML 5: Hot Stuff!
  35. Zynga: So you want to make millions building the next Zynga
  36. Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper
  37. Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight)
  38. Silverlight 5 and HTML 5
  39. Free video on the new stuff in Silverlight 5
  40. Silverlight 5: Extending the Trusted Application model to the browser and HTML 5
  41. Click, Click and Click again in Silverlight 5! Check out FREE 30 day Azure pass!
  42. Free: Azure 30 day pass, please sign up, if you signed up using the other number, do it again with the new one. Free
  43. Silverlight design: Silverlight 5 Overview
  44. XAML and SoundPlayer
  45. 3-D Drawing Surface, new in Silverlight 5 Beta
  46. Measurement the network path quality experience with Xbox 360 Players
  47. Silverlight games: Crayon Cannon still one of the best, but not for the reason you think
  48. NUI Using Silverlight
  49. Make money with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
  50. Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 and XNA development? Supported!
  51. Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
  52. Online Game Culture: Detailed look at Everquest, from a woman’s POV
  53. Do game designers need to worry about privacy, privacy by design? 游戏设计师需要担心隐私，私隐的设计吗？
  54. Is it safe to use this Quake port to HTML5? (它是安全地使用此地震端口，以 HTML5 吗?)
  55. WebGL: An insecure standard, seriously, don’t use this right now (WebGL： 不安全的标准，严重的是，不要使用此现在)
  56. Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight
  57. Free Silverlight 4 training kit
  58. Silverlight 5 and Free Kinect SDK?
  59. Silverlight game resource: Where are the Awesome Web Site(s)
  60. Silverlight 5 Games: Best in Class
  61. HTML 5: How to use the canvas
  62. XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games
  63. Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator
  64. Great video on designing Silverlight Games
  65. HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted?
  66. Silverlight game design review: Clear Breeze Design
  67. Silverlight game design: Upgrading examples from earlier versions
  68. Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code
  69. Silverlight 5 Top Beta features
  70. Silverlight 5: Get the latest beta and watch the video!
  71. Game engines, 2011, Looking for Silverlight game engines

2010 5

  1. Simply Using Matrixes in your projects
  2. Silverlight 4.0 Games: Rotating the triangle using C# and XAML
  3. Silverlight games on Win Phone: Rotate that triangle, simply
  4. Silverlight Game: Let’s get started, simply
  5. Silverlight on the Windows Phone!

2009 35

  1. Silverlight Games: Using F#
  2. Designing Web Based Games: If I taught a class here is the syllabus I would use
  3. Silver Putt
  4. Wheelz
  5. Play with your Peas
  6. Vector Space Armada: Review
  7. Review of Terminator
  8. Have a happy 4th of July! Be Safe! Build a Silverlight application
  9. Creating a Model Project for your game design
  10. Farseer: Water Play
  11. XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1
  12. My XAML object doesn’t show up in my Code Behind!
  13. Silverlight Games: Getting the infrastructure down by blowing it out of the browser
  14. Silverlight: Blow it out of the browser and links to definitions
  15. Silverlight Games: Making Silverlight 3.0 work off the internet
  16. Serious Silverlight Games: PMP, thoughts on cancer research
  17. Silverlight Games: Seriously, using Photosynth
  18. Silverlight Games: Seriously
  19. Creating a serious game using Silverlight
  20. Using Games to help people better understand diseases
  21. Check out the Silverlight Showcase!
  22. XAML: Making the connection between XAML and Code Behind
  23. Labanotation: A complicated way to describe human motion also known as Dance
  24. STEVE WOZNIAK: Dancing with the Stars or Silverlight 3 Avatar?
  25. Building a Game: The Model, View, Controllers approach
  26. Expression Blend 3: Free Download! Comments about Blend 3 and purchase justifications!
  27. MMOG: Silverlight solutions?
  28. Silverlight games: Joy in a time of depressing news
  29. Flash versus Silverlight: Do you really want to be stuck using only one language in your game?
  30. Silverlight: Quick Post
  31. Silverlight games: Review of tutorials for Silverlight games
  32. Silverlight games: Creating an online business based on games
  33. Fun Game using Photosynth to get immersed into the movie: Angels & Demons
  34. Silverlight Games: Building a profitable web site
  35. Silverlight the good/bad/ugly?

2008 6

  1. Tech Challenge
  2. Using Silverlight: Popfly games
  3. Using Expressions Blend with Visual Studio 2008
  4. Javafx
  5. My post for today really sucked
  6. Learning how to use the FarSeer physics engine with Silverlight