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Bill Reiss has posted about WP7 "indie" games and some issues that he noticed.

Source: Silverlight Games 101

Let me start by saying that I struggled with whether I should write this post. I really want the platform to succeed and I feel that raising awareness about the issues so that they can be fixed outweighs any negative publicity I may be giving Windows Phone in this post.

Well the initial numbers are in, and developers that have released apps and games on Windows Phone know how they’ve been doing. I don’t have any numbers on paid apps, but for paid games things aren’t looking too great. I’m talking about “indie” or “non-Xbox Live” games here, no idea how Xbox Live games are doing, but I would assume a lot better.

Track the attempt of Samuel Jack to build a Windows Phone 7 game in 3 days.

Source: Functional Fun

After an unpromising start, Day 1 of my 3 day Build a Windows Phone 7 game challenge ended very satisfactorily.

Festive game is built with Silverlight 4 and is hosted on Azure.

All you need to do to play the game is use the left and right keys to move the bouncing Santa. Increase your score by jumping up the clouds, make sure you don’t miss or it could be game over! Watch out for Santa’s run-a-way sleigh, it may drop bonus presents that you can catch for bonus speed. Collect six presents for a super speed bonus that will really send you up into new heights.

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Gavin Wignall built a Festive game to promote Windows Azure using Silverlight 4.

Source: Silverlight Buzz

Last year I created a Festive game for the Microsoft UK Partner team, with the creative help from our Metia team at Reading TVP, we managed to turn the game around in just one week! You can still play that game here: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/game/

After the success of last year we were given the challenge again to create a simple fun Festive game with the focus to be on Windows Azure. Again, I was given the creative support from our Metia TVP team so that I could focus my time on building the game mechanics. Thankfully, this year our turnaround time had been lengthened to two weeks.

           

Here is Part 4 in the Full Stack series in which Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC 3 ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone.

Source: Channel 9

Jesse and Jon look at progress on the phone and look at a prototype for a Silverlight game.

Also take a look at the previous parts of these series:

• Part 1: Building the Admin Site with ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet and EF Code First 
• Part 2: Setting up the UI for our Windows Phone client 
• Part 3: Building a Repository using TDD 

Sigurd Snørteland converted the famous Tetris game to Windows Phone 7 and included the source in this post.

Source: Sigurd Snørteland's Blog

I have converted another “normal” silverlight app to WP7. This time it’s a tetris-game (YYTetris) from YYGames. I have updated the user interface a bit and added a top score feature.

 

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Sigurd Snørteland has converted the good old Silverlight Snake game to WP7.

Source: Sigurd Snørteland's Blog

I have convertet another “normal” silverlight app to WP7. This time it’s a snake-game (snakesnackgames.codeplex.com) from Terence Tsang.

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Source: Andy Beaulieu's Blog

I have had a total blast since I first heard of Silverlight being the premier development platform for Windows Phone 7! If you've followed my blog, you know that I am a hobbyist game developer and have been creating casual games in Silverlight since the SL 1.1 Alpha (see them here). Like me, I hope you concentrate on having fun with WP7 and sharing your apps with others. And who knows, you might make a little money, 99 cents at a time!

Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

This tutorial was written with Jeff Paries, who created the game we’ll be using and who is the author of Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation. Artwork for the game and for the tutorial was provided by Ryan Loghry.