{"id":1289,"date":"2006-11-09T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"XNA Games Studio Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down today to check out what&#8217;s inside XNA Games Studio, the platform which Microsoft touts as the future of bedroom games coding (well, sort of). It&#8217;s still in beta 2, and it doesn&#8217;t support XBox 360 executables yet, but it works fairly well. I ported my old C# game experiment without much pain, and you can check the results <a href=\"files\/XNAInvasion_05_beta2.zip\">here.<\/a> Don&#8217;t expect a lot of polish in the code or the actual game: the platform is still beta after all, so I didn&#8217;t want to spend more than a few hours with it. You will need <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/support\/install\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual C# Express<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/directx\/xna\/gse\/\" target=\"_blank\">XNA Game Studio Express<\/a> in order to compile and run it.<\/p>\n<p>The subscription model they are going to use for XBox 360 XNA development is likely to put many people off. There&#8217;s plenty of bedroom game development communities going on already, so I&#8217;m not sure this XNA thing will become a big  success, but we will see how far Microsoft wants to go with it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to XNA sites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xnaspot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.xnaspot.com\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xnaresources.com\/\">http:\/\/www.xnaresources.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Edit:<\/i> There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/player.php?type=wmv&amp;id=14836\" target=\"_blank\">video montage<\/a> showing a few homebrew games and then some material by Torque and the XNA demo teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down today to check out what&#8217;s inside XNA Games Studio, the platform which Microsoft touts as the future of bedroom games coding (well, sort of). It&#8217;s still in beta 2, and it doesn&#8217;t support XBox 360 executables yet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}