“If you can see the lights/
shine in front of me/
If you can see the lights/
shout out where you’ll be…”
– Simple Minds, “See the Lights”

That song has nothing to do with this blog post.

I blogged sometime back about Microsoft’s new technology, called Silverlight, that allows desktop-programming clods like me the ability to program web apps (like Gmail or Google Maps).

Adam Gretencord rightly let some air out of my sails with the current reality of web app programming, which Adobe does own, and the situation is the same today.

However, I am trying my hand at my first web game, a tower defense clone.  I have little imagination when it comes to inventing new game genres, so I am first trying to just copy an existing, relatively well-contained, game in the tower defense vein.

It is in “alpha” right now, which is a bombastic way of indicating I’m not even half-way done, but it is also much smaller than my (overly) ambitious real-time strategy game Crescendo, which I have put on indefinite hold while trying out this new technology.

Here is a screenshot of the game in its current state.:

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