{"id":16,"date":"2008-07-27T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-07-27T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T23:52:24","slug":"community-built-games-on-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/community-built-games-on-xbox-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Community-built games on Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our readers are not professional game developers, but do graphics or game programming as a hobby or as part of their academic research. Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb200104.aspx\">XNA Game Studio<\/a> is interesting since it allows free development of Xbox 360 games. To be precise, although the software is free, Xbox 360 development does require a $99\/year premium membership &#8211; still a bargain compared to the many thousands of dollars required for a professional console development kit. However, the resulting games could only be played by other people with premium memberships &#8211; not exactly a mass market.<\/p>\n<p>This week, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xnagamefest.com\/\">Gamefest<\/a>, Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/creators.xna.com\/en-us\/XboxLIVECommunityGames\">announced<\/a> that these &#8220;homebrew&#8221; games could now be sold to Xbox 360 owners in general. Interestingly, the games will not be selected by Microsoft themselves (although I am sure they will do some gatekeeping) but by the community (similarly to the selection of posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/\">Digg<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you are a game or graphics hobbyist who is intrigued by the idea of creating games to sell to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videobusiness.com\/article\/CA6463012.html\">almost 12 million Xbox 360 owners<\/a>, then check out Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/creators.xna.com\/\">XNA Creators Club website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our readers are not professional game developers, but do graphics or game programming as a hobby or as part of their academic research. Microsoft&#8217;s XNA Game Studio is interesting since it allows free development of Xbox 360 games. To be precise, although the software is free, Xbox 360 development does require a $99\/year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,46,47,45],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-gamefest","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-360","tag-xna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}