I was checking too see if there was any new action over at the cool new mashooo forums and came across a cool post by dmiles96

Turns out he had the awesome idea to port Kongregate’s flash game programming tutorials to Silverlight.  I’ve only skimmed the tutorials so far, but they seem quite thorough! 

Kongregate, for those that don’t know, is one of the more popular flash portals that actually shares Ad revenue with the game developers.  Currently they do not support Silverlight but I encourage them to support it every chance I get.

Have a look at dmiles96’s tutorials. Here is his a link to his first in the series:

http://www.dieajax.com/2008/10/28/introduction-to-game-programming-in-silverlight/

And here is a link to a sample from one of his samples:

http://www.dieajax.com/samples/tutorial/silverlight/shootorial-two/shootorial.html

-Jeff

One of my dreams is to have all the flash game portals out on the internets, Kongregate, Addicting Games, Newgrounds ... etc., start supporting Silverlight games alongside Flash.

I'm positve they will eventually, but not until the Silverlight install base reaches a certain threshold. I'm not sure what that threshold is but I hope we get there soon.

The best place I found to keep track of the approximate Silverlight 2 install-base is www.riastats.com.  RIAStats keeps real-time data on the install-base of the different plug-ins.  They somewhat recently started filtering out sites with content specifically dedicated to Silverlight so as to have a more accurate reading.

Today, the percentage install-base for Silverlight 2 crossed the 6% line! woohoo! 

Still a long way to go but it's moving in the right direction.  Hopefully things will pick up once the final version of Silverlight 2 is released.

-Jeff