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I am pretty confident the Silverlight game development community will quickly grow to become as large(or larger, if the Flash game dev community is any indication) as the XNA game development community.

For this reason, I hereby request, on behalf of all the future and present Silverlight game developers,  an awesome Silverlight game development portal along the lines of what exists for the XNA Creators Club Online community.

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The last time I started creating a sample game on this blog, I had to go through creating a game loop, handling keyboard input, dealing with vector mathematics, and a few other low level tasks. Along the way I created a helpers library which people could use to get started with their own games. A good amount of code from these samples made its way into SilverSprite, a free open source library that I created to make it easier to get XNA 2D games running in Silverlight.

This is a video of a presentation I did for the XNA Calgary Users Group recently. It runs about a 30 minutes and is a good introduction to getting started with Silverlight game development and some of the things to watch out for. I also cover using the SilverSprite library to make game development easier for those already familiar with XNA.

The 16. Dec. 2009 I did a talk about game development in Silverlight 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Thanks to all the people showing up, hope you had some good hours too :) One thing that I found especially cool were that one of the attendees was a 10-12 year old boy (he brought his dad of course :) ). He already did a game in Game Maker he told me, very cool!

A practical guide to creating real-time responsive online 3D games in Silverlight 3 using C#, XBAP WPF, XAML, Balder, and Farseer Physics Engine

• Develop online interactive 3D games and scenes in Microsoft Silverlight 3 and XBAP WPF
• Integrate Balder 3D engine 1.0, Farseer Physics Engine 2.1, and advanced object-oriented techniques to simplify the game development process
• Enhance development with animated 3D characters, sounds, music, physics, stages, gauges, and backgrounds
• Packed with inspiring, realistic examples offering impressive graphics, strong performance, and a rich interactive experience

This is really great and I hope it helps somebody out there. You can view it and download the source from the link above.

You can see my original post about the conversion here: http://laumania.net/post/Porting-XNA-starter-kit-Platformere2809d-to-Silverlight-(SilverSprite).aspx

Bill Reiss has a post in which he explains about the various methods of developing Silverlight Games including Silverlight and XNA.

XNA Game Studio allows you to create games for Windows, Xbox, and Zune. You write your games in C# and you can write 2D or 3D games (2D only on Zune right now). XNA doesn’t have a vector graphics library built in, so if you want to make your games more portable, stick to image based graphics.

8-bit Rocket blog has launched a cool new Flash to Silverlight series by Steve Fulton focusing on game development.