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madsen35
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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: Create your own video game |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/08/14/microsoft.game.software.ap/index.html
| Quote: | Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console.
The XNA Game Studio Express program, an offshoot of the company's more robust XNA Framework, will be available August 30 for a $99 annual subscription, the company announced Monday.
The software, which requires a Windows PC to operate, will let anyone with the desire create their own video games and then share them on Microsoft's Xbox Live online game service, said Peter Moore, a Microsoft vice president.
Moore said the program is basic compared to the pro tools, which cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Though it's designed to eliminate much of the tedious hand-coding involved in making a game from scratch, some basic programming skills are still going to be needed for the consumer version. |
Crazy stuff. Sounds interesting!
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postandpivot
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Create your own video game |
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| madsen35 wrote: | http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/08/14/microsoft.game.software.ap/index.html
| Quote: | Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console.
The XNA Game Studio Express program, an offshoot of the company's more robust XNA Framework, will be available August 30 for a $99 annual subscription, the company announced Monday.
The software, which requires a Windows PC to operate, will let anyone with the desire create their own video games and then share them on Microsoft's Xbox Live online game service, said Peter Moore, a Microsoft vice president.
Moore said the program is basic compared to the pro tools, which cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Though it's designed to eliminate much of the tedious hand-coding involved in making a game from scratch, some basic programming skills are still going to be needed for the consumer version. |
Crazy stuff. Sounds interesting! |
 they should've come out with this 20 years ago, i would've been a billionaire by now. But I at least got a check it out. stupid xbox. now I might have to get one. dang. i was holding out for the ps3(which they says is much harder to program for. ). |
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rronald3
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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dont wait for the ps3 because when it comes out it going to cost $600  |
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