As we mentioned before we have been busy working on our new Silverlight in-game event system, code name 3XH. You can see it in action on our featured games section on Mashooo.com. The system allows Silverlight game developers to work with high scores and user achievements without the hassle of building and maintaining the framework and the system to support them. The system was in closed beta testing until now. We were working with a limited number of developers (Jeff Weber, David Lévesque, Daniel James and Ian Tomlinson) to fine tune the system.  We are happy to announce that as of today we are opening the 3XH developers program and the services it includes. All Silverlight game developers can now start using our new Silverlight high score and in game achievement system (3XH).

3XH highlights include:

1.       Flexible system to store/retrieve high scores, achievements and other game events.

2.       Ability to use the system on any web site.

3.       Multi login support (Facebook, OpenID, AOL, Yahoo, Google and more to come.)

4.       Current player information.

5.       Integrated Reward system to reward users for their game achievements.

6.       Managed prize bearing contests.

7.       100% Silverlight from the ground up and much more.

To participate in the program or to find out more information read the 3XH developers manual.

My hat is off to the Silverlight game developers community.

Who would have believed the quality and quantity of Silverlight games produced by this growing, vibrant and amazing community of Silverlight game developers.

If anyone had any doubts about the future of Silverlight game development those doubts will immediately be put to rest once they see what have been achieved in this contest.

The contest is now in the community rating period until Sunday, Jun 21'st. The winners will get some great prizes but they first have to qualify by reaching the top ten community favorites list.

So if you have a few minutes to spare come play the games and rate the S Prize game submissions.

Good luck to all the contestants!

-JB

Wow it's been an amazing month. The contest has just begun and there are already 15 game submissions to the Mashooo S Prize. To top it all the quality bar for Silverlight games just keeps on rising. Silverlight games are really starting to look like the wave of the future when it comes to casual web games.

I can't wait to see what new games the talented Silverlight developer community is going to come up with next.

You can checkout the latest Silverlight game submission list here and don't forget to comment and rate your favorite games.

-JB

As some of you may know, a couple of months ago Silverlight Girl decided to create a centralized place where people can display their Silverlight game creations. The great community reaction encouraged us to continue and maintain the site.

Over the past few months we have received many game submissions and supportive emails. Some of you have been suggesting we offer a place where people can exchange ideas about Silverlight game design and development. Last but not least was Daniel Gimenez the author of the now famous Vector Space Zer0.

Fast forward a couple of weeks of work on our spare time and thanks to the YAF project, the Silverlight game forums are now live.

We hope you will find them helpful and feel free to post any comments and suggestions you may have.

JB

Silverlight girl has been maintaining a rapidly growing list of Silverlight games on Mashooo.com for a couple of month now.

The list has recently passed the 50'th game mark. It seems like every day there is a new Silverlight game popping out there

and that there are some very promising talents that are trying to peruse game development on the Silverlight platform.

Because maintaining the list was getting out of hand Mashooo.com has recently changed format.

One of the main changes is that any one can now easily submit new games and also rate and comment on the available games.

I hope you enjoy the new format and that the list will help raise awareness to Silverlight game development and what it can bring to the world of casual web based games.

JB

Mashooo.com released a new Silverlight web based game today.

For those of you who have been sleep walking for the past few month. Silverlight is a new and exciting technology that looks like a promising candidate for next generation development of RIA applications.

The game is called Bumble Beegger and was built as a proof of concept for the usability of this new technology.

The game uses the Farseer Physics Engine that was developed by Jeff Weber of Farseer Games for gravity, movement and collision detection.

You can play Bumble Beegger for free with your web browser on Mashooo.com

Have fun and remember that it is a beta version and that any comments would be welcome...