Slauncha is a Windows application that displays an on-screen menu for quickly launching Steam games using the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows. It is currently in beta.

Slauncha has currently only been tested on Windows 7. It should work fine on both 32-bit and 64-bit editions, but I'm not sure about Vista and earlier.

Download the zip file, extract it and move the entire folder into C:\Program Files (or wherever you like).

Games can be added to the menu by right clicking on the tray icon and choosing Configure. Click the [+] button in the Configure window to browse for a shortct to add. At this time only Steam shortcuts with the extension .url are supported.

To create a shortcut to a Steam game, right click on the game in Steam and choose Create Desktop Shortcut. The shortcut will appear on your desktop.

Once a shortcut has been added to Slauncha, you may remove from your Desktop.

Show the menu by hitting the Start button, hide it with the Back button. Use the left thumb stick or the D-pad to move through menu items and launch a game by pressing the A button.

You can also show the menu by clicking on the tray icon and use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate and Enter to launch games.

Slauncha is currently in beta and is still missing a few key features:

• The ability to display more menu items than can fit in the window. Scrolling/pagination is not currently supported.

• Full screen mode

• Support for Non-Steam shortcuts

• Re-name menu items

Compiling the source code requires Visual C# 2008 Express Edition and Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 (both free). At the time of this writing Visual Studio 2010 does not support XNA Game Studio.

Slauncha utilizes classes released under the Microsoft Permissive License and is thereby released under the same license.

See Microsoft Permissive License.rtf for more details.