|
|
XNA Studio 2 Released Published by wes213 on Saturday, December 15, 2007
With the release of Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 2.0, Microsoft edges closer to a publishing pipeline for the amateur development community.
“It’s our next big step in democratizing game development,” XNA general manager Chris Satchell told Next-Gen regarding the release of Game Studio 2.0, which launches Thursday at http://creators.xna.com/.
Satchell’s ultimate vision is to create what he has in the past called a “YouTube for Games” on consoles, where users can create a game and share it with the development and gaming community at large, and at will.
Microsoft isn’t quite there yet, but Satchell reveals that the vision is becoming reality, perhaps sooner than expected.
“Once you’ve given people that publishing pipeline of the community, that’s just a huge deal in the industry. That’s a discontinuity. That’s never been done on a games console before.
“I can confirm that [a user-generated program] is actively in development here. We’ve been working on it for a while, and early next year, we’re going to have some major announcements about the details of what this publishing pipeline for the community looks like.”
Satchell said that details about the business model surrounding the program would be announced next year as well.
"Xbox 360 will still have triple-A games, will still have Xbox Live Arcade games, but will also have this whole 'Community Arcade' idea," he added.
XNA Game Studio is development software targeted at student, hobbyist and independent game developers, allowing them to create games playable on PC and Xbox 360.
With Game Studio 2.0, developers now have the ability to add voice chat and matchmaking features to their games, without the need for complicated coding. The new toolset also lets developers develop games that can be played cross-platform between Xbox 360 and PC via Xbox Live and Games for Windows—Live.
Game Studio 2.0 also fully supports game development with all versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.
The original XNA Game Studio launched about a year ago, and boasts around 750,000 downloads. More than 300 universities have adopted the software, and Satchell said that some bigger developers have told him that they have used XNA Game Studio for very raw prototyping before moving onto more serious prototyping using XDK or DirectX SDK.
Microsoft will also provide a free academic trial membership in the XNA Creators Club beginning in January.
Dream-Build-Play 2008
Microsoft also announced its Dream-Build-Play 2008 game development competition. Registration for the Silicon Minds Warm-Up Challenge begins this week, and winners of that challenge will be announced at the Game Developers Conference in February, where details of the main challenge will be revealed.
Warm-Up Challenge prizes include an opportunity to interview for an internship with one of the challenge’s organizers: Microsoft Research’s Machine Learning Group in Cambridge, England; Rare Ltd.; and Lionhead Studios. The challenge will be to create a small game based around A.I.
News-Source: Next-Gen
( Subscribe via    
)
|
|
| |
 
 |
|
 |
|
Tuesday, May 14 | |  CAPES releases this month on Xbox X|S, XB1, P |
Monday, May 13 | | Highway Police Simulator launches for Xbox Se |
Friday, May 10 | | THE SMURFS - Village Party launches in June o |
Thursday, May 09 | | 'Paper Trail' Sets Course for Consoles, PC an |
Wednesday, May 08 | | ESDigital Games and Storm in a Teacup team up |
Tuesday, May 07 | | 'Realm of Ink' Reveils New Map Trailer, Invit |
Monday, May 06 | | Puppet House creeps onto Xbox Series, PS5, an |
Friday, May 03 | | Toopan Games Unveils 2025 Release for 'Multiv |
Thursday, May 02 | | F1 Manager 2024 coming to Xbox X|S, XB1, PS4| |
| System Shock remake arives May 21st on Xbox S |
Wednesday, May 01 | | AAA Multi-IP Battle Royale “OPEN” confirmed f |
| Chrysolite announced for to Xbox Series, Play |
Tuesday, April 30 | | INDIE Live Expo Reveals First 2024 Showcase, |
Monday, April 29 | | Demolish & Build 3 is coming to Xbox, PlaySta |
Friday, April 26 | | Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game laun |
Thursday, April 25 | | Sleight of Hand launches Day One on Xbox Game |
| Space Invaders Deck Commander - The Board Gam |
Wednesday, April 24 | | devcom announces new venue, call for speakers |
Tuesday, April 23 | | Dune: Awakening Shows Off Stunning Unreal Eng |
Monday, April 22 | | Metro Simulator 2 is coming soon for Xbox and |
Thursday, April 18 | | Terminator: Survivors confirmed for Xbox Seri |
Wednesday, April 17 | | Build Your Empire: 'Rise of Industry 2' Comin |
Tuesday, April 16 | | Epic Fantasy RPG 'Dungeons of Hinterberg' is |
Monday, April 15 | | Delta Force: Hawk Ops gets a brand new traile |
| Perennial Order is set to bloom on Xbox Serie |
Friday, April 12 | | Umbraclaw hits Xbox, PlayStation, Switch & PC |
Thursday, April 11 | | TMNT: Wrath of the Mutants Hits XBOX, PlaySta |
| GIC’24 Early Bird Tickets Now Available |
Wednesday, April 10 | | Mars 2120 launches out of Early Access onto a |
Tuesday, April 09 | | Die by the Blade Slashes Its Way onto PC in M |
See All Xbox 360 News | Xbox 360 News Archive
|
| |
HQ Network: 8,210 | 
Guests: 4114 |
Members: 0
