Thank you Bil, for your great work on making Terrarium available again!
Microsoft MVP, Bil Simser, who has a great post about this on his Fear and Lothing blog,with lots of details about the game history, what’s changed, how to set up a client or server version. Readabout it here http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2008/07/16/reintroducing-terrarium-now-with-2-0-goodness.aspx.
The Windows SDK team has released of the source code for .NET Terrarium 2.0 on http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2. The goal of this project is to provide a fun way for customers to learn the latest .NET Framework technologies. If you haven’t experienced the addiction of Terrarium, this game was created by the .NET Framework team to test early versions of the .NET Framework. The game was evolved by members of the Windows SDK team in the .NET Framework 2.0 timeframe, but has been untouched for the last 2+ years. This game has something of a cult following.
http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2. The goal of this project is to provide a fun way for customers to learn the latest .NET Framework technologies. If you haven’t experienced the addiction of Terrarium, this game was created by the .NET Framework team to test early versions of the .NET Framework. The game was evolved by members of the Windows SDK team in the .NET Framework 2.0 timeframe, but has been untouched for the last 2+ years. This game has something of a cult following.
Terrarium was a .NET 1.x game/learning tool that was aimed at getting people interested in .NET and building cool stuff, and was widely distributed and conferences and chats. In Terrarium, you can create herbivores, carnivores, or plants and then introduce them into a peer-to-peer, networked ecosystem where they complete for survival. Terrarium demonstrates some of the features of the .NET Framework, including Windows Forms integration with DirectX®; XML Web services; support for peer-to-peer networking; support for multiple programming languages; the capability to update smart client, or Windows-based, applications via a remote Web server; and the evidence-based and code access security infrastructure.
--Karin
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