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Game Programming with Silverlight Paperback – June 24, 2009

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Learn to program fun and challenging games using Silverlight, a rich, web-based application that is ideal for rapid, casual game development. "Game Programming with Silverlight" shows anyone interested in game design and development how to build web-based games using any of the major operating systems and browsers. This comprehensive guide walks readers through every feature of Silverlight used in game creation. You'll get an introduction to Silverlight 3 and all of its cool features. After you're comfortable with the application you'll learn how to create your game world, add objects and animate them, incorporate sound and music, network your game and make it multiplayer, and more! Each chapter covers a wide range of topics that you can leverage to build just about any type of game using Silverlight.

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280 pages
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English
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Cengage Learning PTR
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June 24, 2009
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7.5 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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1598639064
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978-1598639063
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Michael Snow has been a game developer for the past 20 years and has extensive experience in DirectX and multiplayer game programming. He has been a Microsoft employee for over 13 years and is currently a senior development Lead on the Silverlight Tools team. Michael has a Silverlight blog that can be found at http://www.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning PTR; 1st edition (June 24, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598639064
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598639063
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Rob

Average Book - Worth a quick view

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2010

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I purchased this book in order to ascertain whether or not it was worth attempting to write complex multi-player games like RPGs with Silverlight. I think the first third of the book basically gives you a primer on Visual Studio, Silverlight, and Expression Blend. The second two thirds of the book provided more relevant material. However, I came away feeling like Silverlight was not the platform on which I wanted to work. That's a personal choice because I prefer 3D graphics, and Silverlight is too weak in this area.

The book was interesting, but I couldn't put it to use in my development environment.

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James M. Mantooth

It's OK. But the code is incomplete.

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2010

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I enjoyed reading this book, however, the code in this book uses many custom coded helper methods and static classes that are unmentioned and undefined. The Author does not tell us that the definitions of these helper methods (1) are not in the book & (2) cannot be downloaded using the links that he provides in the book. For example, the code in this book uses Utils.GetImageFileName(Image), Consts.TerrainLayerCount, Consts.Unknown and Consts.None to name a few. Although these could probably be implemented intuitively by most readers, including myself, I would have preferred that the code was included in the book. Even more, I'd would have preferred to be informed that this code was simply not available rather than for me to waste time flipping through the book and searching the internet, only to find out for myself.

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Jay White

Only Loosely Does What It Says It Will

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2009

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I purchased this book with the intention of using it for guidance in (random) map generation in Silverlight. But the book fails to offer much guidance in game programming at all. Rather, the author has opted to provide a overly detailed introduction to Silverlight 3 in the first 106 pages and then only "snippets" of code from various other functions and utilities in the remaining 145 pages to show off his game. The snippets provided aren't even representative of the challenging or creative aspects of coding such an application but rather a seemingly self-indulgent glimpse of the author's musings as he writes about specific elements that strike a chord within a category, or are just easier to detail. Overall, its fodder best documented in a blog or in a source-accompanying document online and NOT a guide to be bought, paid for and kept within easy reach on anyone's handy reference shelf.

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Robert Hollencamp

Not worth the money

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2009

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Just go and download the source code for the book and read that; in fact that is basically what the author tells you to do. The first half of the book is a general overview of Silverlight that could (should) have been 1 chapter. The second half is a little more useful, and gives a brief explanation of some issues that the author ran into while writing the game that the book was written about.

Overall, I felt like the book was more a log of the development of the demo game, and does not do a very good job as an introduction to game programming with Silverlight.

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SULTAN S ALYAMI

awesome

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2014

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I gambled buying this book because it is too cheap, but what I got is better than what I thought.
Great condition even better than the description

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Michael Hanley

Fantastic Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2010

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I really enjoyed Mike's book. The content is great and the sample code that is provided is very helpful. Causual gaming is clearly going to be a big role for Silverlight and this book does a great job in getting developers ready for the task.

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Maciej Misztal

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2010

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A good book covering an array of topics related to 2D game programming with Silverlight 3.0 . The chapter with Networking is a very nice addition to the book. I rate it as an overall good read.

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JanetFi

Build a game step by step in Chapter 4

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2010

Starting with Chapter 4, you can use each section to begin building your game step by step, from creating the game loop and enabling full screen, to loading images and detecting mouse double-clicks.

Of course, not all scenarios are covered, but you can use the discussions at [...] to ask questions or ask for suggestions about implementation.

Yes, some of the downloadable source code is buggy, but people are posting solutions as they find them to [...].

I would've given the book 5 stars if it weren't for the fact that Silverlight coders with less experience might have trouble figuring out how to implement some of the scenarios. For example, in the section about Putting Your Game in Full-Screen Mode, you see the code for the event handler method that will do the work, but not how and where to attach the handler to an event. I looked in the source code and couldn't find any use of the IsFullScreen property, so there wasn't help there. But hey, the discussion board is pretty active, so that should help.

Love the book!

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Di Herbert Feichtinger

Adding a few tips to you toolbox

Reviewed in Germany on May 23, 2010

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This book is not for Silverlight newbies who want to learn Silverlight, and it's not for XNA programmers moving to Silverlight. If you know Silverlight and know how to code a game, then the book gives you valuable information and complete sourcecode samples. Written in simple English, easy to read.

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