XNA Game Studio

There aren't many breakout hits in Microsoft's portal for user-created Xbox 360 games, but the idea shows promise. This week, Microsoft provided Wired.com with access to its XNA Creators Club Online , an initiative that lets budding game designers make Xbox 360 games with the company's XNA development framework, then upload them to be critiqued by their peers. Later this year, Microsoft will roll out the games to the public on the Xbox 360, promising an ever-expanding library of user-created games that might give birth to the Next Big Thing. For now, it's a collection of half-baked projects in development -- not a lot ... Read Full Story

The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the third annual Dream-Build-Play global game development competition that encourages aspiring and hobbyist developers to create new and innovative games for Xbox 360. Beginning Monday, April 6 developers from all over the world will have an opportunity to submit their unique game creations to the Dream-Build-Play 2009 competition for a chance to win a cash prize and an opportunity to sign an Xbox LIVE Arcade publishing contract. Winners will be announced this fall. Last year, more than 10,000 members of the community enrolled in Dream-Build-Play, yielding more than 350 completed games from all over the ... Read Full Story

Most developers I know decided to enter the computer field and specifically programming because of computer games. Game development can be one of the most challenging disciplines of software engineering-it can also be the most rewarding! Never before has it been possible for the masses to create games for a game console, much less a next generation game console. We are coming in on the ground floor of a technology that is going to experience tremendous growth. Microsoft is leading the way into how content will be created for game consoles. Soon other game console manufacturers will be jumping at a way to allow ... Read Full Story

[Continuing the XNA Community Games coverage blowout by other means,  Gamasutra 's Christian Nutt recently got to chat to Weapon Of Choice creator Nathan Fouts, who has a really interesting story to tell about his Xbox 360 egalitarian game debut - and his game is really retro-creepy cool in the best 'programmer art' fashion, too!] The XNA Creators' Club is being touted as a way for semi-pro and amateur developers to bring their designs to the masses via XNA Community Games, which launch alongside the New Xbox Experience today. At its recent San Francisco  XNA Community Games event , however, it became clear that ... Read Full Story

Attachment 39544 XNA Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360 Attachment 39544 Attachment 39545 Attachment 39548 Attachment 39546 Publisher: Course Technology | Pages: 700 | 2007-09-06 | ISBN 1598633686 | PDF | 7 MB XNA Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360is the ultimate resource for hobbyists and students who want to writegames for Windows and the Xbox 360 game console. Learn how you cancreate your own games using the amazing tools of XNA and Game StudioExpress, the free game development tools and APIs from Microsoft, basedon the incredibly popular Visual Studio IDE. You'll begin with ... Read Full Story