Hannes Moser

XNA Ein Traum wird war

Heute ist ein selten schöner Tag. Gerade mit Jot, seines Zeichens Gambler Nr.1 im ICQ über das Gamedev Projekt nächstes Semester geschwärmt und beschloßen die XBOX360 mit Hilfe von Microsoft´s eigenem Entwicklerframework XNA zum Kochen zu bringen. Dazu bestellt man folgendes

und

und hofft auf ruhige Weihnachten (arbeitsmäßig), dann wird alles gut.

Euer in Vorfreude schwelgender

[...] No, contrary to this articleâ€™s titleâ€™s suggestiveness, I *didnâ€™t* get an xbox or XBOX360. No, I settled for something even more entertaining: The XNA. Actually, Iâ€™ve been playing around with this handy sandbox for C# gamedesign for a while, but thanks to Hannesâ€™ enthusiasitc blogging on impossiblearts and mma05 I just canâ€™t help agreeing with him. The rather bulky download of almost one GB for all the necessities such as the C# Visual Studio; the .NET 2.0 framework; the DirectX 10 (yay!) SDK and last but not least, the XNA Game Studio Express. Not to mention the countless How-To tutorials a hobby hobbyist hobbyprogrammer like me needs for even getting started. But I am quite comfortable with C# — there are sooo many settings already set for you. Setting up the skeleton of a XBOX360 game is as easy as clicking â€œCreate XBOX360 gameâ€. Because thatâ€™s what it is. For a quick try you just insert your own lines into the methods for initializing, updating and drawing and there you go. Best thing of it all: “It don’t cost no dime”. Only if you want to run your stuff on a real XBOX360 you need to register as a developer for 99$ a year. If you want to sell your indie-games at some point, better buy the Game Studio Professional — to be released soon. And with Vista support. [...]