At Chimera Entertainment, we developed the game for Bigpoint using Microsoft Silverlight on the client-side with Windows Server and the .NET framework for server-side gameplay.
We chose Silverlight for several reasons. Our development team already had lots of experience developing games using C# so working in Silverlight was an easy transition. As a platform, Silverlight’s comprehensive feature set allowed us to implement the game on a single technology platform plus having .NET on client and server also allowed the almost seamless transfer of components and the use of a shared code base.
In designing a state-of-the-art gaming experience for the browser, we used many of Silverlight’s core features and drove deep into the Silverlight framework, including:
Dynamic, real-time gameplay via sockets
Over 50 pre-renderer combat units using a Writeable Bitmap based animation framework
A custom rendering engine for displaying stunning particle effects
A dynamic game world, featuring high-quality game art and handcrafted animations based on User Controls
A unique resource and state-management-system to handle over 300 individual cities, 50 combat units, 50 battlefields and thousands of items and icons.
A tool pipeline based on Silverlight’s out-of-browser capabilities
Read more: Silverlight Team Blog
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