Microsoft allows anyone to create Xbox 360 games
Posted by Lee® on 14 August 2006 - 21:16 · 10 comments & 6227 views
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#1 Posted by simon360 on 14 Aug 2006 - 23:54
- That's awesome! I can't believe they're actually doing this, this is amazing! Xbox 360 just got a whole lot better!
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#2 Posted by Unwonted on 15 Aug 2006 - 00:20
- NICE. Finally, some innovation from a console maker.
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#3 Posted by AionXn_ on 15 Aug 2006 - 01:23
- omg i've dreamt of this! finally omg thank you!
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#4 Posted by neufuse on 15 Aug 2006 - 01:35
- ill be shocked if sony ever lets home users design their own games...
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#5 Posted by Broken Halo on 15 Aug 2006 - 01:45
- Awesome! I hope this is right and not the engadget article from erlier today, here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/microso...tube-for-games/
For those that don't want to read they say the $99 a year fee is required for use, where the article this one links claims it is an optional "developers group" membership fee
Judging by the rest of mycrossoft's Express line, I'm placing my money with this article, pure awesome.
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#6 Posted by rIaHc3 on 15 Aug 2006 - 02:06
- You have to pay $99 a year subscription if you want your games to be uploaded which is a great price. This means we will finally see Xbox 360 Media Center because altho it says its based only on games and it can only be uploaded by Microsoft (and requires a hard drive) you will problably see some hack to comply/upload the game to your hard drive yourself.
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#7 Posted by Vexed on 15 Aug 2006 - 02:53
- I'm going to make so many stupid games for me to play on Xbox Live Arcade.
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#8 Posted by nookadum on 15 Aug 2006 - 16:27
- Hopefully somebody will be able to hack part of this service to enable homebrew on the 360.
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#9 Posted by discharge on 15 Aug 2006 - 19:26
- sony did this with their ps2 console, ok you had to buy the kit 1st, and learn linux, but it did well and i think 13 or 14 homemade games were turned into full blown ps2 titles
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#10 Posted by lostspyder on 16 Aug 2006 - 18:54
- Does this include some sort of emulator to debug the software on the PC?
Typically, console games are designed by large studios that must pay high prices to buy development kits in order to write games for consoles. Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express is a new development kit, to be released in beta form in August, that will be available for free to anyone using a Windows XP PC. The kit is designed for game developer novices as well as studios.