free games from mini clip – this is a good un
22 May 2008
Best silverlight game – zero gravity, i saw so far, from a list of silverlight apps. I think this boulderdash clone proves its possible to write retro remakes in Silverlight, and finally this shows the power of silverlight mashed up with google maps.
18 May 2008
Looking at Silverlight – for a long time considered writing simple games for the web but the only viable option being flash. When I tried this with multi bitmaps onscreen at the same time, flash just keeled over. So spent some time looking at games written in Silverlight 2. At the moment all I can find are very basic, the best being a helicopter mashup with Google maps – the helicopter flying over a maps landscape shooting spaceships that crop up here and there. Books on Silverlight 2 are still being written, and Silverlight 1 requires the use of Javascript rather than C#/VB. Microsoft are obviously trying to get the games ball rolling by sponsoring a games competition and I will wait to see what comes out of this, to assess whether it can be used as a games platform for doing 8 bit games rewrites. A further gripe is the restriction of Silverlight requiring newer processors – it wont run on a 800Mhz PC – why?
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15 May 2008
8 May 2008
Democratic Image Seminar
Democratic Image Seminar by Redeye. Didn’t blog about this last year, but an interesting weekend event held over in Manchester. The highlight seeing Pedro Meyer speak about the issues, photography in Mexico and the Zone Zero website.
There was a mix of writers, critics and photographers. Also people from the industry. Suvendra Chatterjee spoke about photography in India. There were two speakers from Photo Voice who described their activity of giving cameras to people in the Third World. Mark Sealy spoke about power issues in photography and the representation of blacks. Geert Van Ketsteren a Magnum photographer showed work from the Iraq war. Two female photographers showed work respresenting women in the UK and abroad.
