Posted:
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:27 AM
from
robburke.NET |
Filed under: Silverlight, Personal, Tech, Microsoft, XNA, Windows Live, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and XBox, Greasepole
The Silverlight 2 Beta runs rings around the Silverlight 2 Alpha. However, the lack of hardware acceleration is very noticable (and relevant to an Image-oriented application like Legend of the Greasepole) when running at higher resolutions.
For a little perspective:
In 1998, the first version of Legend of the Greasepole was released.
Platform: Windows PC (95, 98, [...]
Posted:
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:12 PM
from
robburke.NET |
Filed under: Silverlight, Personal, Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Photography, Windows Live, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and XBox, Greasepole
The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers.
After last year’s XNA port, the release of the Silverlight 2 [...]