Working on a new website: funzietown.com.

"What is it?" you say.

Well, for now it is a lame website whose goal is to be an educational game site. So far I've created one math practice game called Save The Animals! Word of warning, I'm neither an artist nor a musician. My hope is that I can earn enough via the Google adsense ads to contract out some art and music. So if you visit the site and you want to see better graphics and hear better sounds, don't forget to click the crap out of the ads. Think of each click as a few cents dropped into my hat.

I began playing around with Silverlight for games after Keith Rome gave a talk about it to our user group, GGMUG.com.

I've wanted to create a math game that appeals to girls for a while. I worked closely with my focus group (my daughter) and arrived at a game themed around saving animals. After a few tries, this is what I came up with.

I plan to do a more in depth blog post about the internals later, but in the cool part is that I'm using Linq to objects as an embedded database.

When I'm finished the student's results will feed back to the server and be stored in a database where parents/teachers/tutors can review their progress. For now you get a text box with a list of the ones you missed that you can copy and past into notepad, etc.

If you get a chance to try it out, let me know what you think. Except for the graphics and sound. I KNOW about those already... :-)