XNA Game Studio

Chaos · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:13

Anyone here going to give XNA Gamestudio a try when it comes out at the end of the month ?

I've never done any game programming but it sounds interesting so might give it a try, need to get clued up on C#

Hopefully a super simple game wont be to difficult to get up and running.

FAQ -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/faq/

Chaos · 22 Aug 2006 at 13:03

Yeah a lot of people have been complaining about how to get their binaries to the masses, but apparently Microsoft are looking into a solution for this so nothing is set in stone yet.

Just picked up Visual C# Step By Step book by John Sharp, so will try and learn some stuff before xna comes out.

Chaos · 26 Aug 2006 at 17:03

Good xna site has popped up with some video tutorials.

http://www.learn-xna.com/

Chaos · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:15

Yeah but theres no license fee or any other disadvantages if you want to make games for the pc, infact it might spark a lot of interest for indie pc developers.

Regarding the 360, well we will just need to wait and see how it pans out.

Chaos · 30 Aug 2006 at 18:36

Beta has been released -

http://tinyurl.com/gsa9c

Pah no tutorials with it.

Chaos · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:34

Could only see the spacewars code, but just read there are some tuts in the help content section.