Comments on: Rapid Silverlight Game Development

By: John Kanalakis

John Kanalakis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:44:00 +0000

The PlayBits has very little in common with the Torque engine. The only overlap is that they are both based on the C# programming language and implement a component architecture. Otherwise, they’re pretty different in that PlayBits targets Web games with Silverlight and Torque X targets Xbox 360 with XNA.

The behavior of the components are similar to Torque X components, as their names suggest. However their implementation and exposed properties are entirely different. As result, I don’t think you can easily port a Torque X game to PlayBits quickly. But, you can can port over your game design, structure, and art assets pretty quickly.

John K.

By: Brian Bond

Brian Bond — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:10 +0000

Hey John,
How close are the components to Torque X 2D? Would it be fairly easy to create cross functional components?

Brian

By: Ken Hu

Ken Hu — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:29:07 +0000

Very interested in this product. Please keep me updated regarding release and updates.

Thanks.

By: Thomas Barrett

Thomas Barrett — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:31:21 +0000

We are very interested in your PlayBits Silverlight Game Engine any new news on the release or beta release?

By: John Kanalakis

John Kanalakis — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:58:04 +0000

Another posting at the middle of May will announce details for participating in the Beta test program and then invitations will be sent out a couple weeks later with download details. I’m especially interested in your project, it sounded like you’re building a Sim game.

John K.

By: Dody Gunawinata

Dody Gunawinata — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:40:39 +0000

When is the release date or at least public beta be available?

By: John Kanalakis

John Kanalakis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:37:39 +0000

Hi David,

Yes, large tilemaps are supported, but the more textures there are (and bigger), the larger your game’s download will be. Succussful Web games need to be as compact and efficient as possible for quick download.

John K.

By: David Everhart

David Everhart — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:29:40 +0000

Hey John,

Just read the playbits link and checked out the editor, very cool. Will it support large tilemaps (if you remember the issue I had from Torque X) or is it more for smaller ones?

By: David Everhart

David Everhart — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:24:10 +0000

Looks good John, Ill be checking this out mor in detail. I have been looking into Silverlight recently, looks prety interesting.