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Archive for May, 2008
Flash with hardware acceleration for 3D
May 15th
That ‘s really impressive, Flash becomes strong competitor on RIA market, especially for multiplatform web based game developers.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta not yet for Silverlight
May 13th
VS 2008 SP1 Beta released, but it seems it does not work well with VS 2008 Tools for Silverlight 2 Beta1
“We will release an updated VS 2008 Tools for Silverlight package in a few weeks that works with the VS 2008 SP1 beta”
Will it be Beta 2 then?
2d physics engines libraries for .net
May 3rd
So far I have found three different 2d physics engines for .NET:
- Farseer Physics Engine http://www.codeplex.com/FarseerPhysics (http://www.farseergames.com/)
- Physics2D http://code.google.com/p/physics2d/
- Box2dx http://code.google.com/p/box2dx/ famous Box2d ported to .NET
Currently I play with Farseer, but Box2d also looks very interesting, I think that as soon as I finish ceres level editor I’ll try Box2dx. So far I couldn’t find enough time, I thought I’ll be able to upload it by the end of April, but it seems now it will be end of May …