We’ve been hard at work to make the PlayBits Silverlight Game engine as fast, feature rich, and flexible as possible to make turn it into the easiest way to create games for the Web. Now that Microsoft has announced the Silverlight 3 release date of July 10th, we’re matching that with the release of PlayBits on the same day. The PlayBits...

We’re at T-minus 25 days and counting down to the launch of the the PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine’s Early Adopter program. PlayBits, now in full private Beta testing, is only weeks away from openning up to the public for pre-release access. The Early Adopter program was inspired by the large number of responses we have been receiving...

The PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine is making terrific progress and is quickly approaching its first release. The vision behind PlayBits has always been to empower Web game developers with the ability to quickly prototype and produce online games. It’s no doubt that Silverlight already offers amazing functionality and extensive support for images,...

EnvyGames is proud to be a contributing sponsor to Mashooo’s S Prize competition. Mashooo hosts the largest collection of online Silverlight games on the Web. With Mashooo’s growing collection of Silverlight games and our emerging PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine, Silverlight is quickly becoming a solid platform for Web game development. The...

 Most games for the Web today are typically based on static or animated sprite images. They look great, but are pretty inneficient as images usually large and contain a lot of wasted data. Silverlight, however, has natively built-in support for vector-based shapes, such as rectangles, circles, lines, curves, polygons, etc. You can combine these shapes...

EnvyGames is in the final stages of developing the PlayBits Silverlight game engine. The design goal behind PlayBits is to provide an easy solution for creating games for the Web by leveraging the powerful features of the Silverlight plug-in for Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox. PlayBits will empower anyone with knowledge of the C# programming...