XNA?

[ησχєs]

Has anyone ever worked or fooled around in XNA 3.0? or 2.0?

I think it uses C++. I could be wrong.

Nice program though for organizing and creating games for Windows, X360, or Zune.

[Avtar]

You're talking about Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express? That's the one that was available for free on the MS website last time I checked, it's the student version of course. Express and all that. I was quite impressed when I heard about XNA, you can re-use a lot of code in it, they've got a highly extensive set of classes bundled into it. And I'm pretty sure that it uses C# Noxes. Hang on, let me check.

Games that run on the framework can technically be written in any .NET-compliant language, but only C# and XNA Game Studio Express IDE and all versions of Visual Studio 2005 are officially supported.

Interesting. The framework they're talking about is the XNA framework. C# would be a bright way to go then.

[ησχєs]

Either way Avtar, XNA is perfect for game coders who want to see their games on X360.
Did you ever try it out?

It's a 100% free program to what I know. They have XNA Game Studio 3.0 up now.

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows and the Microsoft Zune digital media player using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on the .NET Framework.

XNA Game Studio 3.0 is required to create games for Xbox LIVE Community Games.

Sounds good.

[Avtar]

Never been into game development, but yeah, been told that this is the thing to use. You should probably give it a shot, game development your thing?

[ησχєs]

I'm more into graphics. But I was fooling around with this last night. Managed to reskin a tetris rip-off pre-program thing.

[Avtar]

Nov 4, 2008 18:17:14 GMT ησχєs said:

I'm more into graphics. But I was fooling around with this last night. Managed to reskin a tetris rip-off pre-program thing.

You should have told me before, I would have got you to code my Graphics Project in C.

[ŋєт™]

It does indeed use C#. I still haven't got around to getting it and Visual Studio 2008, but I will. I don't know C# yet though so I wouldn't be able to use XNA yet.

[Avtar]

Visual Studio is extreme bloatware. I don't see why it occupies such a lot of space on my system, and it insists on installing itself in the Windows partition. I should have probably made my partition much larger.

Probably will in some time.

Going to be trying out Ubuntu and Windows 7 in the next few days.