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XNA Game Studio Express, the first release of XNA Game Studio, was intended for students, hobbyists, and independent (and homebrew) game developers. [9] It was available as a free download. Express provides basic "starter kits" for rapid development of specific genres of games, such as platform games, real-time strategy, and first-person shooters.
XNA Game Studio 3.0 (for Visual Studio 2008 or the free Visual C# 2008 Express Edition) allows production of games targeting the Zune platform and adds Xbox Live community support. It was released on October 30, 2008, and supported C# 3.0, LINQ and most versions of Visual Studio 2008. XNA Game Studio 4.0 was released on September 16, 2010. [19]
Following Visual3D predecessor RealmForge Game Engine's success as the first 3D game engine and integrated development toolset for C# and .NET, and it features as the cover story for Software Developer's Journal July 2015 3D Games in .NET issue, Microsoft announced the first public release of its Microsoft XNA Framework and XNA Game Studio products in the August 2006 keynote speech at ...
Games in this category use the Microsoft XNA game engine, or derivatives thereof. Pages in category "Microsoft XNA games" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
MonoGame is a derivative of XNA Touch (September 2009) started by Jose Antonio Farias [6] and Silver Sprite by Bill Reiss. [citation needed] The first official release of MonoGame was version 2.0 with a downloadable version 0.7 that was available from CodePlex.
This SDK, called XNA Game Studio, is a free version of the SDK available to professional development companies and college students. However, to create Xbox 360 games one must pay for a premium membership to the XNA Creators Club.
Initial tools for the development of games on the Xbox 360 platform were bundled in the XNA Game Studio Express 1.0, released in December 2006, as a means of introducing newer programmers to the steps in game programming. [2]
There were XNA Kits, which were used at some expos and given to game studios, Stress Kits, which were used to test the power of the Xbox 360 and various conditions such as undervolting and overvolting and issued to Microsoft developers only, and Demo kits, which were used to demo games.