Gaming using Microsoft Silverlight

With the advent of latest technology, new new updates coming which are dynamic and totally unseen. And with days going by, each and every department of the technology is seeing heated up competition whether you call it software or the hardware arena. And, since Microsoft has a habit of leading from the front, why would they choose to stay behind when it comes to one of the world's most popular format - Flash. Introduced quite recently and unheard of for many, Silverlight has been introduced to the mainstream market and has already generated a huge fan following already. Many sites have already adopted it and quite a lot of online games have already arrived. Let's see what Silverlight has for us to offer.

A direct competitor of Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash, Silverlight provides a retained mode graphics system similar to Windows Presentation Foundation, and integrates multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. It has been designed in such a way that it will work in conjunction with XAML which can be used for marking up the vector graphics and animations and will be scriptable with Javascript.

Silverlight supports the playback of WMV, WMA and MP3 media content across all supported browsers which include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera and Seamonkey without requiring Windows Media Player, the Windows Media Player ActiveX control or Windows Media browser plugins. Silverlight makes it possible to dynamically load XML content that can be manipulated through a DOM interface, a technique that is consistent with conventional Ajax techniques. These properties help it to make dynamic websites and for online Silverlight games.

The gaming market is slowly moving towards Silverlight and fast. On the right is a screenshot of a Silverlight game, Zombomatic. Silverlight games of these sorts are coming up very fast on the internet. And one of the sites which will soon be offering a huge number of Silverlight games in one place is the Silverlight Club. The site is working with various Silverlight game developers to bring the netizens 100s of Silverlight games to this one platform. Online gaming sure has a bright future and with sites like these coming up, you are made sure that you ain't going to have a boring experience sitting on the net. So if you are the one who is getting bored and sitting idle in front of your computer, then go and play Silverlight games online and make sure that your time doesn't go pulling your hair. Have fun gaming till then!