XNA Game Studio Express Beta Now Available

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 1, 2006 @01:31AM from the that'll-learn-ya dept.

d.3.l.t.r.3.3 writes "The long awaited XNA Game Studio Express public Beta is finally here. Despite some high claims by Microsoft, the Game Studio remains a code-only experience, with a more coherent and less fragmented feature set than the old DirectX 9 SDK. As I describe in this review, XNA has successfully streamlined many dull tasks of game development (helped a bit by the new game-supportive features of Windows Vista). It's also, unfortunately, kept too many frustrating pieces and bugs (especially when it comes to cross platform input handling and audio) to be successfully considered a real multi-platform game developing tool."

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I Don't Know About This. by LifesABeach · 2006-09-01 05:15 · Score: 0, Troll

I looked around for the source code to download and compile; I couldn't find it. My Computer Science Advisor says, "Using someone else's code without checking it first is not like cool running." But I thought, "What the heck, it's microsoft; They've never been convicted of lying, cheating, or stealing other peoples stuff." So I downloaded it anyway, and tried to unpack it. I couldn't find anything that could unpack it. Funny thing, there was no MD5 value on microsoft's web site; That's kinda weird to me. I figure that it's broke. Maybe if they opened a forum, and let us see the code, maybe someone could figure why it doesn't work in Linux.