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Posted by: host 9/6/2008 10:58 AM

I don't need much of an excuse to play with Silverlight, so when TeamZoneSports announced a Silverlight Games Competition, I had to indulge.

I came up with Hook Shot, a simple basketball shooting game where you try to make as many hook shots as you can before the timer runs out.  

The game uses the Farseer Physics Engine for the basketball physics and Rim/Net collision detection. I also added a high score functionality using a back-end web service.

I need to do some cleanup before thinking about releasing the source code (hey I threw this one together pretty quickly), but in the meantime if you are interested in using the Farseer Physics engine with Silverlight to create some cool applications, check out these prior posts:

Advanced Physics with Silverlight and Farseer

More Polygon Physics with Silverlight

Getting Started with Farseer Physics and Silverlight
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Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 9/10/2008 9:05 PM
Great game! I'm wondering where you got your sound effects? I spent many hours looking for royalty free sound files for my game and never found anything great.
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By admin on 9/11/2008 2:36 PM
I answered this in the blog post above.

-Andy
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 10/16/2008 8:52 AM
Are you planning to release the code for the game?
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 12/11/2008 2:04 AM
Hi ya.
Nice game, have you had time to clean up the source code for a release? :o)
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 1/13/2009 1:41 PM
Hey, did you ever get your prize money? I sure haven't. Please contact me - 2nd place winner @ gmail
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 7/20/2009 7:50 AM
不错
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 11/29/2009 7:06 AM
Excellent game ! You specify INFO AND CODE, but i can't find code to learn more about this fabulous silverlight game !
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 7/27/2010 6:23 PM
Hi Andy

Are you planning to release the code for this one even if not finished? I would love to learn from it.
thanks
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 8/1/2010 9:17 PM
how did you create the game timer? and using physics helper, how did you do the shooting? any help will be greatly appreciated!
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 8/2/2010 6:48 AM
Thanks for all the interest in the game! Hook Shot was created some time ago, _before_ the Physics Helper library was created, so it uses "raw" Farseer Physics. I won't be releasing the source code any time soon, but you can find very similar physics examples from the Physics Helper Library here - http://andybeaulieu.com/silverlight/3.0/physicshelper3/index.htm

-Andy
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 8/2/2010 7:30 AM
Oddly enough, I just saw today that somebody has reverse engineered "Hook Shot" using the Physics Helper, and written a tutorial around it!

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/silverlight/Write-an-Online-Basketball-Shooting-Game-Using-Silverlight-4-and-Farseer-Engine-part2.aspx

-Andy
Re: "Hook Shot" Silverlight Game    By Anonymous on 9/9/2011 3:52 AM
Good Game.

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