EnvyGames Sponsors Game Competition
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 S Prize is “an open ‘no holds barred’ style competition, meaning that people from around the world are free to participate [with] no theme limitations.” This means that anyone with any game idea can use free tools,...
read morePlayBits and Vector Games for the Web
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 together and color them with Silverlight’s rich set of Brush options, such as gradient fills, stroke, translucency, etc., and you can make some pretty amazing game artwork. Best of all, a few bytes of markup for a vector based game object...
read moreShifting Web Games from Flash to Silverlight
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 language to quickly create new and innovative casual games with a rich set of features. Our vision is to disrupt Flash’s grasp on Web games and help Silverlight emerge as a game development platform. PlayBits is full of game development...
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