"Casual Game" and Feedback

Question

I've been playing with creating an asteroids type game and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with Silverlight Alpha!

If you want to take a peek at the work in progress, you can go here. Also a blog post on the subject. It's not a complete game but I think I've proofed out input, frame rate, graphics...  I hope to complete the game soon and post up the code as a sample.

Anyway, I wanted to give some feedback on the Alpha for whoever is listening on the dev team

• I needed to implement my own (crappy) collision detection. I really expected with all of the vector capabilities that HitTest functionality would be in Silverlight but it isn't (yet anyway).
  
• There isn't a "real timer" class in Silverlight yet, so you need to use an Animation Timer as a workaround
  
• The KeyDown event doesn't appear to support arrow keys. Hopefully this will be fixed before release.
  
• I'm not sure if this is something I'm doing but my MediaElement only plays once

Answer 1

Looks nice

I'm working on a shooter game myself, a bit like "Duck Hunt" from the old Ninento

I had a question about the FPS...is there a way to set the FPS like in Flash ?

Looking forward to see the finished version

 

Grtz
Dimiz0r

Answer 2

The maximum frame rate is one of the options that you can set in the JavaScript createSilverlight call.