Silverlight Rocks!

It seems like there is never enough time for everything and I have had my share of juggling to do, and one of the things that has suffered is new game tutorials here. I will be getting back to these hopefully in the not too distant future but there was something even more neglected that I need to take care of first. My original beginning game programming...

The more I think about this, the more I think there is something fishy...I just don't see how you could get that kind of performance rendering to the screen without having a lower level interface to the renderer in Silverlight 2.

I have created a new control called a PathTextBlock that lets you draw outlined text and allows you to distort the text. It started out as a need I had to draw outlined text, and then I saw a few people asking for drawing along a curve, etc. and figured I could create a control to do both. How it works is that the font file is converted to a XML representation...

Nice! This is similar thing to XNA :)

This falls in the file of how the heck did they do that? Or even, is this a hoax? Innoveware is working on porting Quake to Silverlight. They only have a video up right now, and I won't 100% believe it until I can run it myself, but it's pretty impressive: http://www.innoveware.com/ Hopefully we'll get some information about their techniques...