Microsoft XNA Game Studio, A 360/Windows Development Environment

[Raccoon Sam]

It can be development environment that you can create 'real' XBOX 360 and Windows Games. With 'real' I don't necessarily mean games like Pong, but real 3- or 2-dimensional games. Here's some info I grabbed:

• You own the full rights to your own ideas and the games you develop.
• The development environment is free.
• It recognizes WAV as its native sound format.
• It recognizes just about every image format, reaching from PNG to TIFF.
• It recognizes the most basic 3D model formats, including 3DS, C4D and MAX.
• It does not have a rich interface, meaning there's no 'level editor' window or anything like that.
• If you know C++ or Java, you're pretty much ready to go.
• It gives you full access to the XBOX 360 hardware and fibers

So yeah, be sure to check it out.

[rogueyoshi]

old'd, but i'm pretty sure a lot of fresh developers here don't know about this.

[Debug_Mode]

I've heard about, haven't actually downloaded it yet though. I don't have too much C++ knowledge, but maybe I can pick some up while trying to use this.

Also, just for anyone that doesn't know, it costs $99 a year to publish 360 games, but for publishing it on a pc it's free.

[Bigbowsa]

I WANT to try it, but it tells me I gotta install Visual C# 2005 Express Edition SP1. What the heck is that?

[Bigbowsa]

edit: DAMN! double post.

This post has been edited by Bigbowsa on Dec 30 2007, 04:30 PM