Posted:
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:12 PM
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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 [...]
They say the hard part is controlling the kite. Focus on the kite, they said, and the board will follow.
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My instructor, Gerardo [...]