Microsoft Silverlight

Hi, is there any plans to implement Microsoft Silverlight into Kongregate?

whats microsoft silverlight?

whats microsoft silverlight?

Supposedly Microsoft’s “answer” to Adobe Flash. I have yet to see anything impressive done with it though.

Why would they want implement Silverlight?

How much in use is it, that it should be considered a viable platform, not to mention probably having to write an API for it?

I highly doubt they would want it.

.Net implementation of web applications.

Why would they want implement Silverlight?

Support more games, maybe?

Anyone have any links to silverlight games? I’d like to see what it’s capable of.

@TheoSoft, it allows people to use .Net languages, and .Net is one of the leading frameworks (with the most job opportunites I believe, aswell).

So far we have not heard any announcement from Greg, and besides, it is up to the game developer community as a whole to decide if they would want to switch from Adobe Flash to MS Silverlight.

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I suppose the change might be a case of “wait and see”. The biggest hurdle would be the popularity of Flash as compared to Silverlight.

I don’t think there are any Silverlight games that even remotely compare to the games on Kong.

Silverlight would be very interesting. If what I understand is correct, it could be a very powerful tool. When I was working on botNET (a Diablo 2 bot system) we had a similar idea: you could write a script in any .NET language and the program would recognize it. Unless I’m completely missing the point of Silverlight, I think it may end up becoming a very viable alternative to flash. Time will tell, however.

http://www.devx.com/RIA/Game/37741?id=271
http://www.devx.com/RIA/Door/37728

http://corporate.miniclip.com/march_26_2008.htm

I believe it is in the plans.

@TheoSoft, it allows people to use .Net languages, and .Net is one of the leading languages (with the most job opportunites I believe, aswell).

This is the 21st century. Silverlight has hardly taken off.

Not to mention that .NET is very cumbersome to set up and learn. Trust me, I’m having to learn it now for a new project, having been immersed in PHP for the past 5 years. Incidentally, .NET is not a language. It’s a framework. Not to mention Kongregate runs on Ruby on Rails. Do you honestly think they would take the time to try to implement a technology that few have adopted just to accommodate a few fanboys?

.NET/Silverlight is also not very cross-platform (i.e. Linux). There are a number of people who play these games on Mac and Linux platforms and could not play certain games if they were in Silverlight.

And yes, I know about Mono/Moonlight.

@TheoSoft is right when he discounts the Linux builds. They are still experimental, and I’ve experienced quite a few system slowdowns. Additionally, the Linux Firefox plugin is still immature.

Kong should hold off before adopting this young tech….

Silverlight game.:D Line rider.

http://linerider.com/play-line-rider-online

Silverlight game.:D Line rider. http://linerider.com/play-line-rider-online

It would be a crap game like Line Rider, wouldn’t it?

Silverlight game.:D Line rider. http://linerider.com/play-line-rider-online

“Please install the latest version of Silverlight Beta 2 to start playing now”

Once again, Kong should hold back until they’re sure that Silverlight is a true Flash competitor.

“Please install the latest version of Silverlight Beta 2 to start playing now” Once again, Kong should hold back until they’re sure that Silverlight is a true Flash competitor.

You mean, you don’t have that installed? ;)

You mean, you don’t have that installed? ;)

You mean, the 5 of us that use linux can’t get it? :P

(I run linux and moonlight it too experimental right now to use)

I was being sarcastic. I knew MrSpontaneous was using Linux. Besides that, I doubt there’s many Windows users besides developers who actually have it installed.

I think there is more than enough room for both Silverlight and Flash. It’s not an either/or scenario.

As for install-base, everyone that watches the olympics on http://www.nbcolympics.com/ will have Silverlight 2 (beta 2) installed. That may not be you, but that is a LOT of people. Plus MS can push this through windows update.

True there are not a lot of games yet but it’s still early. Silverlight 2 is still in beta. Here is the best list of Silverlight games I know of: http://www.mashooo.com/ (site requires silverlight :-)

I’m currently building a game in Silverlight called ‘Diver’

Diver Alpha Video Diver Landing Page

I would LOVE to put this on Kongregate and hope to have that chance some time sooner rather than latter.

I don’t know a lot about Kongregate’s site architecture, but I can’t imagine it’d be that difficult to add support for Silverlight. Silverlight can call out to any java-api’s just like Flash.

The games themselves are more important than the tech they are built on imo.

Well, that is my 2cents.

-Jeff Weber

I was about to post a reply regarding Diver Jeff, but who better to post the link than the creator himself! Nice to see you on Kong, you’ve done a great job with Farseer =)

And I too would love to see Silverlight support here in the future; the workflow suits me much better than Flash’s.

A long time ago Staff said implementing Silverlight was in their plans.

it is up to the game developer community as a whole to decide if they would want to switch from Adobe Flash to MS Silverlight.

Remember Kongregate is not a Flash games site, but rather a game site. There are Shockwave games on the site too, and who knows what’s next. RuneScape, made in Java, is now on the site (although via a Flash browser).

I agree, nobody has to decide to switch from flash to silverlight. Both can exist without a problem.

I’d also like to see some Unity game support even though I don’t currenty do any Unity development. It’s just another plug-in.

@trib4lmaniac thanks, nice to be here. :-)