The software giant hopes with this software to help hobbyists, independent game developers and students in developing games for the pc and the Xbox 360 in a more easy way.
Microsoft has presented its XNA Game Studio Express game develop-tool last week during the Gamefest 2006-event in Seattle. The software giant hopes with this software to help hobbyists, independent game developers and students in developing games for the pc and the Xbox 360 in a more easy way. The software will be free to download from the internet, just as the other develop-tools in the Expresses-series. With this game develop-tool you can only develop games for Windows XP. Whoever wants to develop for the Xbox 360 will have to pay 99 dollar per year for a membership of the Creators Club. Members will get the opportunity to build and test Xbox 360 games.
How the spread of these homebrewed games will work, isn’t yet totally clear. This will probably happen through the Xbox Live Arcade-service. The first beta-version of XNA Game Studio Express will be released at the end of this month and it is the intention that the definitive release of the game develop-software will appear at the download-market in November or December. Microsoft isn’t giving away software free of charge without gaining something. This way Microsoft hopes to prevent that gamers change to the PlayStation 3. Also Microsoft expects through this step to obtain new ideas and concepts that can be conversed into a game.
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