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August 16, 2006
Game programming for you and me?
Back in the days of yore - I used to write games for my VIC20. That was one of the only ways to actually get games for the system back then as there wasn't much around at the start. Frank and I spent hours typing in games from magazines, debugging and modifying them or writing our own in lines and lines of BASIC and DATA. Ah yes, those were the days.
Microsoft has just announced the release of XNA Game Studio Express. From the description, the system will allow people like you and me (well, maybe not me) to write and share games for the XBOX360. It looks as though actual XBOX support is coming later (Windows first) and that this will be a "closed-community" type thing, whereby games will only run on your XBOX if you are a (paying) member of the community. Still, it's a first step and an interesting space to watch.
Posted by Matthew at August 16, 2006 07:18 AM