Target one of the most popular flash games of all time and have the developers make a new version in Silverlight instead.

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

This is a good tactic but it is a small market segment.  But the segment is made up of early adopters which might be willing to advocate for its use.  The problem with the technology, even if it is superior, is that it is going up against a network effect already in place with Flash.

Well...go play the game, it's fun.

Hat tip: http://timheuer.com/blog/

All you need is a web cam and you're golden.

Here's their blog...not much there.

If you've ever played a first person shooter then you know that you can tell the good guys from the bad guys by the color of a little triangle (or circle or hexegon or whatever) floating over their head.

Well they are typically red and green.

What if you are colorblind, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.  I believe game designers are remiss for not taking this into account for nearly 8% of all males have some form of color blindness.  Males being the larger demographic for gaming, I think there might be some benefit to pursuing some usability improvements in the use of color.

It wouldn't be hard, just make it a setting that the user can change.  Done and done.

Crazy but true.

This guy Peter Rakos, created an entire rendering engine/technique in Excel.  I'm not sure it is quite up to the requirements of Halo 3, but it is still a nifty example of how versatile Excel can be.

Check out the video.

And you can download the excel files yourself and try it out.

I've been lethargically trying to purchase a Wii for months now, without success. Apparently you have to be quite serious about hunting one down because they're sell out everywhere that they crop up. Amazon.com reported that when they had them in stock, they were selling 17 of them a second! If the technology in this clip starts to make it mainstream, we're going to continue to be constrained on these puppies. The clarity of the description of the technology, as well as the demonstration itself, is first rate.

Make sure to check out Johnny Lee's other Wiimote projects.

kloonigames

Cool monthly experimental games from Petri Puhro.

Here's an interview with him.

Incredible realism.

How soon until it is a seamless recreation of reality

So this is me embracing my inner geek, but this looks really cool.

c-jump® Ski & Snowboard Race

A computer programming board game.  You play the game and learn how to program.  I think I'm gonna have to get this for the mini-rivets at home.

Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game! c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.

Brilliant. [rules]

I've been looking for this game again: Line Rider.

I found it over at Flashpedia: [linky] Go check it out.

I'm gonna dig in there a bit to see if I can find a couple of things I've been looking for. A good "Lode Runner" flash game and this cool game from a couple of years ago that followed this guy flying up into the sky...I can't really explain it but it was pretty cool.

So.

Online racing for free. Download it and go.

[trackmania nations]

3,051,431 online player registrations.

I often say this phrase: "In the future everything that is simple will be complicated."

I think I can also now say, "For everything online that costs money, you can find a substitute for free."

I'm not sure if this is off-topic or not, but it just seems noteworthy that you can go and download and play this game for free.  Heck it comes with a level editor, multiplayer capability, lan capability, personas, tracking, ranking and a world wide competition...

cool.

Update: OK, this is a cool game.  Thoroughly addicting.  Reminds me a lot of the old sega genesis game "San Francisco Rush - 2049".  The plus it has is the level editor, the minus is there is no battle mode.