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XNA Studio Interview

Posted by Hemos on from the for-the-developer dept.

GamingNexus writes "GamingNexus is running an interview with Chris Satchell from Microsoft on their upcoming XNA Studio developer suite for game developers. It talks about the differences between the XNA Studio and the upcoming version of Visual Studio 2005 (which it's based on) as well as how it will support all phases of the gaming development lifecycle (including artists and project managers."

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  1. marketing jackass by alatesystems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate marketing jackasses. A few choice quotes:

    XNA Studio will speed development time and decrease development costs by delivering an advanced build framework and a suite on integrated tools to solve common production challenges.

    ...and allows programmers to leverage the skills...

    ...development processes and will ship with process support for Agile Software Development.

    Our focus with XNA studio is to deliver the incredible productivity and collaboration services...

    ...integrated pipeline to streamline data and content

    What a jackass.

    1. Re:marketing jackass by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Insightful

      A freind of mine who works in marketing , a wise man , one of the old breed of marketing .
      He said something to me once and it is the only thing a marketing guy has said to me about his profesion that i have ever agreed with , he said "We are a bunch of arseholes , profesionaly that is".Gave me a good laugh

      --
      The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
    2. Re:marketing jackass by DarkGamer20X6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I have a friend that works for Microsoft, too. Really brilliant guy. Anyway, from what I'm given to understand (and you may have more insight into this than I do), this kind of stuff happens a lot with their employees. I think employee morale is really important to Microsoft; they want everyone to be really psyched up and feel good about the projects they work on.

      I certainly agree with the sentiment, but I also think it goes too far too often. I've seen my friend get caught up in the buzzwords, and I'm like, "Chris... (My friend's name is Chris, too), can you tone down the marketing a bit? I think I just heard the programmer inside you cry."

  2. More Windows Lockin by HogynCymraeg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Undoubtedly, this studio will be running windows only libraries, IE Direct X or whatever it's called these days. This is daft in this day and age as there are fantastic crossplatform libraries that enable you to target multiple platforms. I recently bought "Darwinia" (which is an absolutely fantastic game!) and noticed that they had done a linux version. The installer asked for the game CD and off we went! I checked the libraries and they used SDL, vorbis, PNG and a few others.