Ooo, its a fancy new toy for me to play with. Well it’s not really new but it sure is neat, and its exactly what I need for a new project! (surprise surprise!)

As you may or may not know, I LOVE making games and seeing as I am a programmer I feel like I should have the required skill-set to do so. The roadblock I always hit is two fold though. The first part of the roadblock is graphics, while I am a programmer I am not a graphic designer, I like to draw but don’t feel that my work is game worthy, so I always end up getting frustrated with that and end up calling it quits. The second part of the roadblock is game programming knowledge. Even though programming is what I do, my primary focus in programming has always been business processing and automation (ho-hum kind of programming), so there’s a LOT to programming a game that I just don’t know. Anyone who has done research on game programming can tell you that there are sooo many choices, tools and theories out there that it can get a little overwhelming. So I guess the roadblock is really 3 fold. But, Oh Silverlight how you have tempted me to once again fall into this desire!