January 2007 Sputnik Summary

 

XNA Game Studio Express

 

Speaker: Rob Gruhl

 

A brief overview of XNA Game Studio Express followed by open discussion. Starting on December 11th, you and independent game developers everywhere will be able to write games and deploy them to your PC or retail Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio Express. The product is a new game development environment built on top of Visual Studio C# Express and kicks off a whole new era in homebrew game development. The momentum is already amazing - over 200,000 downloads, over 100 online tutorials, over 30 universities gearing up to teach game design and development using the platform. After a brief overview and demonstration of the product, we'll open the floor to discussion about what will need to be done well in the next 12 months to really succeed at accelerating and inspiring indie game development. Check out the product at www.microsoft.com/xna and bring your questions and ideas.