Wow, even though I could only attend Day 1 of REMIX07, it was a very charging experience.

First, thanks to everyone who attended my "Silverlight for Casual Games" talk. You can download the slides and demos here:

SilverlightForCasualGames.zip

It was an advanced talk, and I know I lost some people in the later examples, but I did get a lot of positive feedback!

It was kind of surreal having a "backstage pass" to the speaker's dinner on Sunday night. I literally rubbed elbows with Miguel de Icaza as we sat down to eat. And across the table from me were none other than Brad Abrams and Seema Ramchandani, PM on Avalon. Ugh, if only I could anticipate situations like this and have a bunch of intelligent questions ready! But I did learn from Miguel what kind of performance issues they are running into with Moonlight, and that it would be possible to port Moonlight to the Wii some day. And I also got great insight from Seema on just what drawing performance tricks Silverlight does (and does not do) under the covers. Seema posted a subsequent blog post with a great tip on seeing whether or not your code is causing redraws. I did not have my full "Silverlight Wish List" ready for Seema, but I did come up with a few items :)

I also had a chance to meet Bill Reiss, of Dr. Popper and Farseer Physics fame, and had some great conversations with him centering around using his physics engine with Silverlight Path objects, performance, and other great stuff.

And I had great conversations with Chip Lemmon, who is a Virtual Earth guru, centering around Birds-eye imagery and other VE technology.