Microsoft Publishes Free XBox Development Tools

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 11, 2006 @03:27PM from the compile-once-crash-twice dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft announced the release of free XNA Game Studio Express tools for developing C# games that run on both Windows and XBox. They're also selling XNA Creators Club subscriptions, which, similar to MSDN subscriptions, offer access to sample code and additional documentation. Also, Microsoft is explicitly aiming towards uniting the Windows and XBox development platforms: 'You will have to compile the game once for each platform. In this release simply create a separate project for each platform and then compile them both. Our goal is to allow as much code as possible to be shared between those two projects, allowing you to use the same source files in both projects, but platform-specific code will need to be conditionally-compiled.'"

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Re:Very low level API by everphilski · 2006-12-12 02:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Openscenegraph, while an excellent rendering environment (I use it at work) does not handle input, sound, etc. Neither does Ogre. Your link to CrystalSpace is bad and I don't have time to research it but I imagine, it doesn't either. Try comparing apples to apples next time, please.