Developing game with microsoft Silverlight

Silverlight is microsofts 'new' technology for designing great and dynamic visual content for sites. As flash by Adobe, developers are creating great games with the silverlight technology and making money from developing great flash/silverlight games. This is the basics, for developing Silverlight online game:

1. You'll need Silverlight - Not the developing platform (or it's little sister - Popfly, the mini Silverlight developing platform), you'll need the player. Remember the first time you were trying to run Flash and the browser asked you to approve the Flash download? Well, SL is the same - go to one of microsoft official sites and download it.

2. Check out some great online games written in Silverlight.

3. Get inspired with some samples.

4. Get sponsorship and intro ads for your game.

5. Market your game.

5 Major hit themes in online gaming

As flash game developer you'll find your self wondering about 3-4 times a month - "OK, I've done with my last flash game, what should be my next games theme?!?"
Lets talk about the five most wanted themes in the online gaming world: Shooting, dressing, sports, escaping, brain teasers.

Shooting games are always fun - you collect weapon, you kill the bad charters ad there's blood all over.

Dressing games can make you numb but they're real hit among Asia and female online gamers.

Sports games with traditional goals tends 2 be easy to understand without 'how to play' reading and therefor very popular.

Escaping games are the online version of quest games - you look for stuff to help you with coming issues.

Brain teasers (as Tettris RIP) can boiled your head and they're all about making your logical thinking work.

Develop wisely!