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 Tuesday, October 07, 2008
My submission to the Create a Sports Game in Silverlight Contest hosted by Team Zone Sports ended up in second place!

The game is called Ball Blocks because I couldn't come up with a better name at the time.  You play by drawing a square over the balls where the four corners of the square are on top of the same type of ball.  The bigger the square (more balls inside of it) the more points you get and the more time gets added back to the timer.

The game currently has a bug in it where it can freeze the browser during the game over animation when time expires.  This seems to happen more often on slower machines.  It may be because of the spinning textblock ... I'm just not sure.

Because of time spent trying to fix this bug, I didn't get sounds fully implemented and didn't get a far into the game development as I'd hoped.  I'm hoping to spend some more time on it some time soon and get some of the features I'd originally envisioned implemented.

I've created a Ball Blocks project on CodePlex and uploaded the code.  The project has been updated to work in Silverlight 2.0 RC0 so it should be ready once Silverlight 2 is released.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35:12 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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