Comments on: GDC: Mysterious XNA sheet causes great excitement

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:07:55 +0000

Considering the thrust of the keynote, I think it’s reasonable to assume they’re going to make changes to “accelerate” demand.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:06:47 +0000

You need to be part of the programme to download and try other people’s stuff too.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:05:07 +0000

Ah, right. I didn’t know that. And yeah, they should just make it completely free. Considering the type of talent they’re looking to foster, any charge will put people off.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:03:24 +0000

XNA is free to download, yes. And you can make games with it for the PC or 360, but you have to sign up to Microsoft’s 360 dev programme thing to be able to share them with anyone. I think it was $99 a year or something. Completely free would obviously be much better. They should do that.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:56:22 +0000

The SDK’s already free, innit? I’m sure I tried to make it work once, with no result whatsoever.

By: ginger

ginger — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:51:12 +0000

nah, I reckon they’ll surprise everyone and offer up the SDK for free, and offer a simple revenue share model for any self published games

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:40:53 +0000

It’ll just be some “initiative”. The “YouTube of Games” sounds about right.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:33:35 +0000

I was thinking the same thing!