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Dr. Dobb’s Challenge Deuce

I came a cross this competition the other day and it’s actually pretty interesting for many reasons. Apparently Dr. Dobb’s and Microsoft Silverlight have teamed up to launch a game competition called Dr. Dobb’s Challenge Deuce. http://dobbschallenge2.com/
Users can win cash and prizes for submitting new in-game levels or creating a new game by modding the code. This is actually one very interesting part, both coders and non-coders can participate. Non-coders can make new levels in the browser by using a build-in game editor (haven’t tryed it my self yet), and normal game developers can download the source code and start modding it.

This is a really great idea and when you have tryed the game out, you will notice that it runs pretty smooth and cool which, by it self, is reason enough to download the source and see how they do it.

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It’s things like this that will make Silverlight (as a plugin) and Silverlight as a gaming platform a success.

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Great resources of MVC implementations for Silverlight games

I’m currently doing some prototyping for a game idea I have and I’m trying to build this prototype using MVC. As a source for inspiration I’m using two great resources:

  1. Jeff Weber’s “We Are Bugs” – Also implement a “State pattern” to control the different states of the game

  2. Joel Neubeck’s Developing a Casual Game with Silverlight 2 articles and this link to his blog

Joel is doing a article series and as I’m writing this Part/Module 4 is the current one. He releases a new article one a month a prox.

Hope you find this usefull, I know I do and just wanted to share if you didn’t already knew about these great resources.

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