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Building games for everyone, especially beginning programmers.
Author: Sam Stokes
Getting started with HTML 5 and JavaScript
Oh-oh, it may be true that if you wait long enough everything comes back into fashion. HTML 5,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/01/2012
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!
Attend in person If you want to attend this event use this link: FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event -...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2012
List of 6 things that can get you started with Game Design
Getting started with game design is at best confusing. Should you learn XNA? Yes. Should...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/19/2012
Free photo tool that is totally cool: ClipLets
Check out this totally cool photo tool at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/16/2012
5 ways to make money off of Silverlight 5 based games
Develop a game that uses a “game theory” of economics and sell findings from various scenarios to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/24/2012
Silverlight 5 writers like to say: You can reuse your XNA skills, but can you?
Have you noticed that Silverlight 5 writers like to make the statement that you can reuse your XNA...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/21/2012
Free shout out for a commenter on my blog
Always nice to get what appears to be a valid link to someone who does web design in my comments, so...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/18/2012
Expression Design: Ellipse, Clone the Ellipse, Cut a Path using the ellipse
Cloning? No kidding. In this blog we will clone an ellipse, connect the two clones and then...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/01/2012
MAYNOT BE REALLY: Free Book on HTML 5 game programming and another on animation
Earlier today I wrote the following entry (with links included, now removed) Sweet free book on HTML...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/27/2012
5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game
Reasons given in no particular order: Scalable CPU, so if you get those 20,000 users suddenly paying...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/26/2012
Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother?
Why bother with Expression Design and convert a perfectly good image from PNG to XAML and then have...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/19/2012
Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression
This is sooo cool, you have got to get this Free Water Scroll Viewer and play with it. Totally...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/17/2012
Research: Holo Deck from Star Trek, brought to you by Kinect
Oh this is amazing! The Sensor Research folks have come up with a really cool 3D system, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/19/2011
IE 9, HTML 5 and Video support
Weird, the Chrome fans seem to think that IE9 doesn’t support video. But the following site...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/19/2011
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
Wow, I remember wearing out a few of the K&R books, and for the old people like me you know what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/17/2011
Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try
Wow, can a Mac shop do silverlight development? Is Expression Blend better than Flash? ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/28/2011
Microsoft Expression Preview for Silverlight 5 with Sketchflow, cool
Oh, what a weekend, a great session at DeVry University, hardworking students find out how to create...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/26/2011
Silverlight Game Engine?
Every once in awhile I look around for a Silverlight Game Engine. When I do a search and I get...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/20/2011
HTML 5: Canvas as a place to play
I keep trying to write this post but just can’t get a solid start. So stick with me, no matter...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/01/2011
Game Design: Abusive Game Design or is it just Lusory?
In game design the designer and player/s are in a special kind of relationship, the game designer is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/26/2011
Testing your game: Determining the Game Playability
Playability and usability are two different things, but are closely related, here are some...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/25/2011
Testing your games: Survey for Game Usability
Ok, you have been working on your game, maybe you turned into for a grade at school, or you got it...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/24/2011
Create games on your Windows Phone 7
Wow, create Windows Phone 7 based games using only your phone! Really? Seriously! ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/22/2011
Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect
I have no idea why anyone would want to use VC++ with Kinect, especially since I think that Kodu is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/19/2011
Low Cost eBook: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
I have reviewed this book and it is worth the trouble, and truly worth the low price. If you can get...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/17/2011
HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S
I have gotten a lot of questions around this: HTML 5 seems to be the choice for Microsoft in the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/15/2011
Does Flex suck?
Made you look. Of course Flex doesn’t suck. Javascript doesn’t suck. Silverlight...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/11/2011
Getting started with Silverlight
The lead page of this web site gives you the step by step process to get started with Silverlight:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/09/2011
Silverlight: Quick and Dirty UX Testing
Testing always get my reader, yes you are the only reader of this blog, so thank you for viewing...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/08/2011
Silverlight 5: 3D, What the HECK!
This fresh video is just for your summer viewing! Don’t read this, click the video, amazing...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/05/2011
Working with animations on the Windows Phone
This video is useful because it covers how to create a game concept and maintain your design...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/03/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Advanced UI, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 6)
I like advanced UIs, so it’s just U and I!...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/31/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Deployment, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7)
Deployment is serious stuff if you are in the military or a programmer, otherwise it’s just a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/30/2011
Free Exam Tutorial By Gill Cleeren: Host platform interactions, Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 5)
...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/29/2011
HTML 5: Add an audio player to your webpage for Free!
In this MSDN article HTML 5 is used to add an audio player to a web site and that web site could be...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/28/2011