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Developing games that work with both XNA and Silverlight

Yesterday I co-presented a session at GameFest 2008 on Silverlight game development, and one of the things I showed was a sample of abstracting out the differences between Silverlight and XNA so that you could write game code that would run against both.

The quick and dirty sample is here:

http://www.bluerosegames.com/silverlightxnasample.zip

I want your input, if something like this was built up into a game library that could run on both Silverlight and XNA and was available on CodePlex, would you be interested? It would be a fairly significant undertaking and I want to know whether people would find it worthwhile. I thought it might be a bit more relevant now that you'll be able to sell XNA Games on XBOX 360.

Posted: Jul 23 2008, 11:54 by Bill Reiss | Comments (7)

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roverhair said:

I would find it worthwhile. Im jumping into xna this summer. I just make games in flash and now silverlight as a hobby, but im starting to get better i guess cause i won the RIA Run Contest. Anyway I would love to get into XNA. Most if not all the games I build are small and simple enough that silverlight can handle. The are small games cause im just doing this in my spare time. I would love to publish the games in both xna and silverlight without recoding it. The posiblitiy to sell games on the Xbox arcade really excites me.

# July 23 2008, 18:36

chrisaswain said:

Yes, please put something together on CodePlex. I would definately use it.

# July 23 2008, 20:58

kierepka said:

I'm working on this same problem. But my main development library is Farseer.
My CodePlex game is here:
http://codeplex.com/silvertower

I don't have too much time right now but in next week I will spend maybe another hours for this project.

# July 24 2008, 02:55

BobStrogg said:

Not sure if it'll help you guys or not, but some of the SL demos I've done were based on XNA code (usually physics libraries). I wrote a basic wrapper assembly ("XnaToWpf") originally for WPF but adapted for Silverlight. All you need to do is include it in your SL project and you'll get [some of] the Microsoft.Xna.Framework namespace. It only includes stuff I needed (basic 3D classes; placeholders where appropriate etc) but might be useful for someone.

You can grab the project source here: chriscavanagh.wordpress.com/.../