SubscribeFrom a PCWorld article:
A new game development platform from Microsoft allows anyone to create games for its Xbox 360 console, the company said today [August 14].
Typically, console games are designed by large studios that must pay high prices to buy development kits in order to write games for consoles. Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express is a new development kit that will be released in beta form in August. It will be available for free to anyone using a Windows XP PC. The kit is designed for game developer novices as well as studios, Microsoft said.
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The XNA Game Studio Express development environment is based on Visual Studio Express and .NET, and allows developers to create games simultaneously for Xbox 360 and Windows XP.
Microsoft expects the final non-beta version of the development platform to become available by the end of the year. Another version of XNA Game Studio Express designed for professional game developers will become available in early 2007, the company said.
The part about simultaneous Xbox/Windows development sounds pretty cool. It’ll be interesting to see whether this platform takes off with game developers.
Matthew Harder responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:29 am #
I would like a new game development platform that allows anyone to create games for Xbox360 console, with this it could help me create the game series I have been working on. With this game series I have everything for it done the enemies, storyline, what weapons are in it, and the information about it. In the game I,am making it will have the same graphics that are in Doom 3, it will also be a first person shooter.
Enemies total: between 8 to 13
weapons total: 8
platform it will be on: Xbox360
genres: First person Shooter
Games in series: about 3 to 4
Personal Note: Will put from 1 to 2 new enemies in each game that comes out, and about 1 new weapon.
“thanks”