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The 2008 Microsoft XNA Dream-Build-Play Challenge has begun and its looking like its going to be a really cool competition this year. The best part is that is a worldwide competition so that means even us South Africans can win. Read more about it on my blog over here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Yesterday at the XNA Gamerfest 2007 Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio 2.0, an upgrade for the current XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh, which will now integrate into all Visual Studio SKUs not just the C# Express edition. For those that don't know, XNA Game Studio Express is a free product from Microsoft that plugs into Visual Studio 2005 C# Express Edition and enables developers to build games for both the Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. This is all made possible with the XNA Framework...
The XNA team has released a refresh update to XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and XNA Framework 1.0. You can find the download links here . If any Johannesburg SA Developer .NET community members would like a copy of XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh on CD, please contact me and we can arrange. The refresh includes the following previously announced changes: XNA Game Studio Express Windows Vista is now fully supported You can now add icons to XNA Game Studio Express Games. Incrementally deployment...
After months of testing Microsoft's freely available game development product has gone gold according to the team blog entry . At the same time the XNA Creators Club subscription was added to the Xbox Live Marketplace enabling hobbyist and indie game developers to start testing and sharing their creations on the Xbox 360 platform. Built on top of Visual Studio 2005 C# Express Edition and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 this is surely the best game development platform currently on the market...
True to their word Microsoft has released Beta 1 of the long awaited XNA Game Studio Express for download. Just remember that you will need to download the following unless you haven't already got them installed: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition (434mb ISO) DirectX Software Development Kit - August 2006 (507mb) XNA Game Studio Express Beta 1 (92mb) Also please read the readme before installing as there are some specific installation requirements that need to be met. Oh and it won't work on...