We released a new open source project called Silverlight loader on CodePlex today.

The project is basically a simple and light framework aimed at taking the pain out of writing splash screens, pre-loaders and loaders.

To find out more info check out the Silverlight loader getting started guide and how the Silverlight loader works.

Thanks to Silverlight Girl's talent you can view an artistic demo here.

Hope you find it useful.

  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