silverlight 3 VS AS3 is more like it
I made the same game in both these technologies for various reasons to learn the language of both.
http://www.mymrt.net/cm1/cm1.html
http://www.mymrt.net/cave3/cave3.Web/cave3TestPage.aspx
SO the outcome-
THe easiest to use was …I did prefer .net by only a small margin as the coding, IDE, event handling is simpler
The best to use to make a game…actionscript 3 by a distance. It has more features for game making like collision detection with images is simple, silverlight is really bad here and I spent most of my time debugging collision problems.IN fact SL is REALLY bad with this.
THe one with the most potential in games…no brainer as actionscript 3 wins by a LONG way here. SOrry SL3 but you really need to look at this. FArseer engines are not good enough . AS3 provides many 3rd party tools
3D support…no brainer with AS3 but silverlight has something to offer here with 3rd party tool but at the moment you couldnt really use it.
data integration: Havent used AS3 with this but it cant be anywhere as frustrating as WCF which plain doesnt work on networks I tried it with.
Publish app: AS3 ins on this big time. NO web config and messy config setups I had to do with SL3
Conclusion : both are good technoligies. SIlverlight is progressing but IT lacks that finishing ability that Flash has got. I mean you have a much wider range of things you can do to make your game/app do stuff. For those who dont know, you dont make games with controls (no Blend). Data integration again is a little dicey with SL ATM from my experience and that caused me a headache at work.
