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TorqueX and XNA Developers

Making a game for your Xbox 360?

Then you're in the right place! This group is for the development of indie games for the Xbox 360 using XNA and TorqueX. Feel free to network with other Xbox 360 game developers, catch-up with some relevant headlines, and dive into a discussion thread.

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Welcome to the Xbox 360 Developers Corner

For the first time in gaming history, making video games for a next-gen console is open to the public. It's now up to us to create some amazing games that really break the mold of traditional games. Microsoft and its partners are offering great tools to help us. This video showcases XNA Racer, a game and framework that will be shared (with source code) for us to work from. Okay, XNA Racer does fit the mold of a traditional racing game... but you can take that code as a starting point for something really different.

TorqueX will also provide another great framework for developing your own games for Xbox 360. Based on what was shown at Gamefest, it looks like you can create your own high quality game on par with Tank Buster as shown in the next video. Static Sprites, Animates Sprites, Custom Lighting and Normal Mapping - everything we need to create a fun console game. If you're already familiar with GarageGame's technologies, then I'm sure you'll have no problem mastering TorqueX.

Here's a fun little XNA game put together by an indie with some C# knowledge, but no serious game development background. F14 XNA was built directly on top of the XNA Framework, but imagine how much faster this might be developed with TorqueX! In the meantime, ARogan has posted his code for you to download and play.

XNA Team Blog

September Content on XNA Creators Club Online

Michael KlucherProgram Manager - XNA Community Game Platform While we're still hard at work on XNA Game Studio 2.0 we've managed to also bring you a new round of content on http://creators.xna.com for the month of September! Samples Collision with a Heightmap This sample demonstrates how to move ...

XNA Game Studio Express in CoDe Magazine

Michael KlucherProgram Manager - XNA Community Game Platform If you're looking to read up on XNA Game Studio Express, CoDe Magazine has the new September/October issue of the print version of the Magazine available on their website http://www.code-magazine.com/ This month they feature several articl ...

Dream Build Play Winners, SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool, and August Con

Michael KlucherProgram Manager - XNA Community Game Platform Whew! Gamefest 2007 has come and gone but beyond the announcement of XNA Game Studio 2.0 there was still a lot of news worth circling back on! Dream Build Play Winners Hopefully, you didn?t miss it, but the Dream-Build-Play winners have b ...

Announcing XNA Game Studio 2.0

Michael KlucherProgram Manager - XNA Community Game Platform Wow! It's hard to believe that a year ago on this blog we announced the first release of XNA Game Studio Express. Now, here we are again at Gamefest 2007 and, on behalf of the XNA Community Game Platform team, I am pleased to announce our ...

Gamefest Webcasts: Keynote PLUS first day of XNA Game Studio tra

Michael KlucherProgram Manager - XNA Community Game Platform You may have caught this earlier on http://creators.xna.com but if not, here's some great news for those of you unable to make to Gamefest this year:We are delighted to announce that we will be webcasting the keynote, along with six sessio ...