XNA Racer, holy crap

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=261254

Video here of XNA Racer on the 360, one of the template games that will come with XNA Game Studio later on.

1080p, 30fps, 2xAA, completely from C# code, and only using one of the system's cores.

I can't even begin to imagine the sort of games that could come out of this. Here's hoping that Microsoft begins to showcase the better games that come out of this on the Marketplace, because it'd suck to have to drop the $100 per year to have access to them.

This is MS' biggest strength this generation. Superior development tools.

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Originally Posted by Tain

I can't even begin to imagine the sort of games that could come out of this. Here's hoping that Microsoft begins to showcase the better games that come out of this on the Marketplace, because it'd suck to have to drop the $100 per year to have access to them.

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The October dashboard update changed the Game Demo description on everyone's 360 to say "Play Game Demos and XNA Games".

Yeah, I wonder.

I think he is referring to the template stuff, which wouldn't surprise me if they didn't come out without the tools

This sounds pretty amazing.

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The October dashboard update changed the Game Demo description on everyone's 360 to say "Play Game Demos and XNA Games".

Yeah, I wonder.

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Didn't know that. I've barely been able to use my 360 (it's halfway a Christmas gift). But that doesn't necessarily mean much. The official Microsoft line is that you have to pay $100 to develop games, and that same $100 is needed to play other XNA developed games. The notice might just be intended for subscribers.

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Originally Posted by Tain

Didn't know that. I've barely been able to use my 360 (it's halfway a Christmas gift). But that doesn't necessarily mean much. The official Microsoft line is that you have to pay $100 to develop games, and that same $100 is needed to play other XNA developed games. The notice might just be intended for subscribers.

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The 100 is to depoly the games on the 360. You can still develop the games on XNA for free on the PC. They mention that the code is suposed to run without any mods on the 360 if and when you decide to pony up and pay.

Yeah, I should have added "for the 360" in there. I'm looking forward to messing around with it for PC stuff when its out of beta.

I was tooling around with the XNA beta a few days ago. It's goddamn easy as hell to get (2D at least) stuff running in it, since its just managed C# with some new libraries. Check out the alpha of the awesome shmup I was working on:

http://versuscity.net/galacticavenger.jpg

I'll probably never finish it, but still that took me a grand total of maybe a half hour including stumbling through howtos and intellisense nonsense to get on there (not including keyboard input)

oh yeah I forgot there's a full library of functionality for 360 controllers built into it (obviously, for use on the 360) but also for windows so input is a fucking breeze

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Originally Posted by cka

I was tooling around with the XNA beta a few days ago. It's goddamn easy as hell to get (2D at least) stuff running in it, since its just managed C# with some new libraries. Check out the alpha of the awesome shmup I was working on:

(pic)

I'll probably never finish it, but still that took me a grand total of maybe a half hour including stumbling through howtos and intellisense nonsense to get on there (not including keyboard input)

oh yeah I forgot there's a full library of functionality for 360 controllers built into it (obviously, for use on the 360) but also for windows so input is a fucking breeze

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