I’m sure I’m dating myself a bit here, but back in 1977 or 1978, my parents picked up an early video game console for Christmas. It was a system put out by Telegames and sold through Sears, and it was designed to play a single game - a simple two-player Combat video game. The console had two handles on each side, allowing each player to control a tank on screen:
The goal was to drive around a maze and shoot the other player’s tank.
I decided to create a similar game in Silverlight. It gave me an opportunity to manage multiple moving objects on screen, and some practice with collision detection methods described by Adam Kinney in his Silverlight and Dynamic Animations hands-on lab.
Adam was also kind enough to provide me with a little more detail on the collision detection which I was able to utilize in the game.
You can play my Silverlight version of the game here.
If you’d like to download it and play it on your system offline, a zip archive can be downloaded here.
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May 5th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
it looks funny
how about make it online game?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:52 am
cool game! This idea is very similar to the one I was thinking about which can be found here:
http://www.theamoebaproject.com/blog/aquaseal/tank-game-silverlight-2
I’ll be sure to keep up to date on your tank game here!
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Nice job Jeff, I like the sound effects and the bouncing shots. Now to take a look at the code…