{"id":607,"date":"2008-05-03T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2008-05-03T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T10:26:33","slug":"popfly-game-creator-programming-online-with-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/607-popfly-game-creator-programming-online-with-silverlight.html","title":{"rendered":"Popfly Game Creator &#8211; programming online with Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks great: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popfly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Popfly Game Creator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/popflygames.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>Interesting on several counts. <\/p>\n<p>First, casual gaming will help get Silverlight runtimes deployed. <\/p>\n<p>Second, it&#8217;s Microsoft doing one of the things it does well: opening up programming to a new group. Another example: Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=80\" target=\"_blank\">promotes its XNA gaming framework to universities<\/a>, where it helps them to entice new students into computer science. <\/p>\n<p>Third, it&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/adam_nathan\/archive\/2008\/05\/02\/popfly-game-creator-what-i-ve-been-doing-the-last-6-months.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Nathan<\/a>, author of the definitive work on .NET interop, .NET and COM. Popfly gaming must be welcome light relief (though I don&#8217;t mean to imply that this stuff is easy to do). <\/p>\n<p>Fourth, is online programming &#8211; I mean, programming that you actually do online &#8211; coming of age?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:740cca60-30c3-4a7f-8afa-7f7b7060e71a\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/popfly\" rel=\"tag\">popfly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/gaming\" rel=\"tag\">gaming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks great: Popfly Game Creator. Interesting on several counts. First, casual gaming will help get Silverlight runtimes deployed. Second, it&#8217;s Microsoft doing one of the things it does well: opening up programming to a new group. Another example: Microsoft promotes its XNA gaming framework to universities, where it helps them to entice new students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/607-popfly-game-creator-programming-online-with-silverlight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popfly Game Creator &#8211; programming online with Silverlight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,77,79,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-silverlight","category-software","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}