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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458

'Talking on the eve of its Gamefest event in Seattle, Microsoft has revealed XNA Game Studio Express, a new product which will allow indie developers and students to develop simultaneously on Xbox 360 and PC, and share their games to others in a new Xbox 360 'Creators Club'.

The details of the new tech are as follows: XNA Game Studio Express will be available for free to anyone with a Windows XP-based PC, and will provide them with what's described as "Microsoft's next-generation platform for game development." In addition, by joining a "creators club" for an annual subscription fee of $99, users will be able to build, test and share their games on Xbox 360, as well as access a wealth of materials to help speed the game development progress.'

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

Already broken in the Major Nelson thread. Microt0n.

 

[AndoCalrissian]

Interesting.

 

[Bloodwake]

Sweet.

 

[Amir0x]

cool stuff

 

[sprsk]

Who wants to make a NeoGAF game?

 

[bluemax]

Sweet, I totally need to contact my professors about doing this for one of the gaming classes. Screw making a crappy PC game I wanna make a crappy 360 game!

 

[TheKingsCrown]

Who wants to make a NeoGAF game?

Would the boss be Drinky Crow?

 

[DrLazy]

That's awesome.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

This is what Blim was talking about forever, I guess. Good on MS!

 

[Speevy]

Speevy: The Game! here we come.

 

[sprsk]

I wonder how newbie friendly this is?

Edit: Doesn't this kinda blow open the doors for "...?"

 

[DopeyFish]

I wonder how newbie friendly this is?

Basically: learn C#

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

Shoudl be really really cool. I'm up for a Neogaf game.

 

[RyuHayate]

Super smart move made by MS. This makes me wonder what else MS has up their sleeve.

 

[sangreal]

I anxiously await an xbox media center simulator game

 

[GreekWolf]

Wow. Sounds almost too good to be true.

 

[lobdale]

Witness as Live Arcade becomes diluted with 293048230948 piles of worthless shit coded by monkeys!

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

Who wants to make a NeoGAF game?

I don't think most of us call it NeoGAF anymore. It has since reverted back to being called GAF in most of the posts I have seen here.


But a 2D RPG with lots of recognizable poster names would be killer.....

 

[JCX]

Smart idea microsoft. Now I'll just have wait for the superior sony 4D version.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

I wonder how easy it is to develop using 2D art assets a la The Behemoth style...

Who wants to make a Kevin Analog game with me?

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Witness as Live Arcade becomes diluted with 293048230948 piles of worthless shit coded by monkeys!

Except that these games would have to be approved first for XBLA. The Club selection would be massive and filled with tons o' stuff, though.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

dp (what the hell happened there? time warp 'n shit...)

 

[Jonnyram]

I don't think most of us call it NeoGAF anymore. It has since reverted back to being called GAF in most of the posts I have seen here.

I demand that you make a game of your avatar.

Witness as Live Arcade becomes diluted with 293048230948 piles of worthless shit coded by monkeys!

You mean like the PSP homebrew scene... oh wait.

 

[John Harker]

b-b-b-bu-but i wanna be in it...

 

[polg]

xna has been delayed several times...
does anybody know when was it announced originally?

 

[mikeGFG]

microt0n indeed. I wonder how this is going to be controled/QA'd, though

 

[Ash Sparrow]

I love this idea, cant wait.

 

[Speevy]

So...these games will be available on the marketplace, or I can burn them on DVD or what?

 

[arne]

Basically: learn C#

Actually, I heard the Torque stuff from GarageGames that is mentioned in the release makes things a lot more newbie friendly than just having to learn C#.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

In addition, by joining a "creators club" for an annual subscription fee of $99, users will be able to build, test and share their games on Xbox 360, as well as access a wealth of materials to help speed the game development progress

So is the $99 annual fee for creating and sharing the game with others, or is it required to use what others have made?

 

[DSN2K]

GAF

The Sci-Fi Melodramatic coming 2007

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

So is the $99 annual fee for creating and sharing the game with others, or is it required to use what others have made?

This is kind of like that PS1 devkit you could buy back in the day, but...usable?

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

Time for my shmup idea to come to life!

 

[Grampa Simpson]

xbmc360? That might just make me buy a 360. Maybe.

 

[Spencerr]

So I pay 99 dollars a year to play shitty unfinished games?

 

[element]

i have known about this for a while. heard about XNA Express a couple months back.

 

[DSN2K]

heh remember Microsoft's comments about trying to bridge the Mod community on PC's to Xbox...


guess this is there shot at it.

 

[jgkspsx]

Whoa, I might be getting a 360 this year after all!

Microsoft inarguably has vision and infrastructure that other companies have lacked. It's a very exciting time for the industry.

 

[Ash Sparrow]

Shinmue Live

believe

 

[OldJadedGamer]

Witness as Live Arcade becomes diluted with 293048230948 piles of worthless shit coded by monkeys!

I'm pretty sure that the club will include a voting scale and a "best of" so the games will spread by word of mouth.

Or I hope they do something like that...

 

[calder]

I keep reading that release as meaning that while anyone can make a game if you get the Studio Express you have to be in the Creator's Club to both share your game and play other ppl's creations. Either way, a cool idea but more info would be nice.

 

[i-ninja]

We'll see. Could be awesome, or it could be $100 worth of crappy Flash games.

 

[GreekWolf]

Just called up a couple buds of mine and told them the news. They asked, "when we can start?"

Already got lots of interesting ideas. heh heh

 

[Speevy]

Surely you don't have to pay $100 a year to play these games. What would be the point if you're just a gamer?

 

[DCharlie]

So I pay 99 dollars a year to play shitty unfinished games?

or create shitty unfinished games, yes.

don't like it? don't get it problem solved.

 

[Ash Sparrow]

I see this being really popular. perfect for MS decreasing 360 losses and leading to some profit. So the games will still have to be approved heh. But i'd think they have to approve a good many to keep people interested.

 

[CaptainABAB]

Ars Technica has a story on this as well...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060813-7490.html


You know, I love how everyone kept asking for access to create xbla 360 games, and now that they have an option, they complain about a horde of lame games.

 

[Spencerr]

Surely you don't have to pay $100 a year to play these games. What would be the point if you're just a gamer?

year.

wuh

But

You said month... you fast editor you.

 

[jgkspsx]

Doesn't matter how good the games that come out of this are (though there are bound to be flOw/seiklus/etc. level games or better), a major console company has opened console development to the masses. Not "cheap devkits", not "crippled development console", but actually making stripped-down professional development tools available to people for free, letting people run their games on their consoles and share them with others. That's epochal.

And as good as Microsoft devtools have gotten lately, I'm really looking forward to trying XNA Express