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Create your own Xbox 360 games with XNA Game Studio Express

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Big news, the XNA team today announced a new product, XNA Game Studio Express, designed to enable hobbyists and students create games that target both Windows and the Xbox 360 using the XNA Framework. 

Why is this Big News?
Well, to quote the official press release:

In the 30 years of video game development, the art of making console games has been reserved for those with big projects, big budgets and the backing of big game labels. Now Microsoft Corp. is bringing this art to the masses with a revolutionary new set of tools, called XNA Game Studio Express, based on the XNA™ platform. XNA Game Studio Express will democratize game development by delivering the necessary tools to hobbyists, students, indie developers and studios alike to help them bring their creative game ideas to life while nurturing game development talent, collaboration and sharing that will benefit the entire industry.

Best Summary Quote
"It's our first step of creating a YouTube for video games" Peter "It will give you everything you need to bring your game to life on Xbox 360." - Peter Moore, Vice President, Xbox (Washington Post)

Garage Games Engine

In addition, GarageGames, technology provider and developer of one of the most successful Xbox Live® Arcade titles, “Marble Blast Ultra,” has migrated both its Torque Shader Engine and new Torque Game Builder 2-D visual game designer over to the XNA Game Studio Express platform.   

"Creator's Club" Membership
To run games on an Xbox 360, you'll need a "Creator's Club" membership ($99/year). The membership provides you the ability to  "build, test and share their games on Xbox 360 and access a wealth of materials to help speed the game development progress."

Quick Summary:

  • Price: Free tool and free to develop on Windows. For Xbox, you'll need a "Creators Club" membership which runs $99 a year for developing on Xbox 360 or $49 for four months.
  • Platforms: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Xbox 360.
  • Tools: XNA Game Studio requires Visual C# Express Edition
  • Framework: XNA Framework, a custom implementation of the .NET Compact Framework for game development.
  • Language Support: Since the XNA Framework is a set of managed code libraries, you can use any managed .NET Framework language.
  • Availability: Beta 1 will be on August 30th, the final version "will be available this holiday season".

Coding4Fun and XNA
We're big believers in XNA Game Studio Express and we're working with the XNA team to build out samples, tutorials, and content in the coming months on XNA Game Studio Express. In fact, the XNA team has been working with Coding4Fun contributors like Andy "the Z-man" Dunn who created Space Wars, the showcase game shown at MicrosoftGameFest and Ben N was written by none other than regular Coding4Fun contributor Andy "the Z-man" Dunn and the XNA team is also talking to Benjamin Nitschke to port Rocket Commander to the XNA Framework.

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Press Coverage
Tom's got the best coverage summary so far

 

PS: Did I mention that it's a great time to be a Microsoft Hobbyist?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2006
    Gamasutra has just pre-announced that Microsoft will be releasing the first beta ofXNA Game Studio Expressat

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2006
    Yes, the BBC got my attention with that headline too.  Here's the official press release. ...

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    One of the reasons that Microsoft has been able to break into the video game business is because they've

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Well the big announcement is out. XNA Express is a great new development environment that lets ordinary...

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Well the big announcement is out. XNA Express is a great new development environment that lets ordinary...

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
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    August 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Wow! Microsoft is releasing an express version of the XNA Game Studio. For those of you not familiar

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    Sony's Net Yaroze wasn't supposed to be just about the software to develop games, it was supposed to include access to get professional help and to view source code of professional examples. I'm hoping Microsoft can encourage a strong community around this.

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    August 14, 2006
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    August 14, 2006

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  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2006
    Visual C# 2005 users can develop games for Xbox 360! Thats great news. There is a small licensing fee to pay per year, 99$Game development with the free tool set will also allow games to be
    made for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista, so if you don’t

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    August 15, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2006
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    September 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2006

  • Updated list to include XNA Game Studio Express which is now public * Updated list to include Flight

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    March 02, 2007
    hey how do you make ip adresss work

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    September 09, 2007
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    January 24, 2008
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