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Thursday, May 13, 2010

New Windows Phone 7 game 'DroppyPop' developed in Silverlight; Play it right now

New Windows Phone 7 game 'DroppyPop' developed in Silverlight; Play it right now: "

One of the big sells withs Windows Phone 7 is the inter-language programming allowed between things like XNA, Silverlight and to a less extent .NET.

A clear example of this is a demo of a game called 'DroppyPoop' develped by Andy Beaulieu in Silverlight..

The beauty of such an approach is two-fold according to Andy:

  • It's faster to compile and run outside of the WP7 emulator
  • You end up with both a Windows and Web version

Think of it this way: instead of downloading a "trial version" of a game, he can just link you to a web version to try it out on first. Then if you want it "on the go" you can buy it for $0.99 in the Marketplace.

Case in point, just aim your browser here and play 'DroppyPop' right now.

Now don't get us wrong, this isn't so much a revolutionary game or even an amazingly compelling one, but the underlying concept of easy code portability and having a web-based version of the same game is quite impressive, if we say so ourselves.

[via Andybeaulieu.com]



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