Bernard “Berno” OhAcademic Audience Marketing

t-berno [at] microsoft [dot] comhttp://bernardoh.wordpress.com

9 Jan 2007

Create Your Own Windows-Xbox 360 Game

with XNA Games Studio Express (GSE)

What’s Happening

• Professional Games Industry• Enrolment into ICT Courses• Upload Generation

XNA and XNA GSE

• XNA is a set of managed code runtime built based on a customised .NET Compact Framework 2.0

• Create and deploy Windows and Xbox 360 games

• XNA GSE is installed over C# Express IDE• Comes with additional documentations, how-

to and starter kits

Setup XNA Game Studio Express on Windows• Download and install Visual C# Express

• Download and install XNA GSE

Deploy to Xbox 360

• An active Xbox 360 Silver/ Gold subscription• Ethernet cable • XNA Creators Club

Xbox Live blade Games All Games Download XNA Creators Club • Download XNA Game Launcher

Spacewar – XNA Starter Kit

Useful Links• XNA Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/

• Channel 9 Video ‘Looking at XNA’http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=261254

• MSDN XNA Forumhttp://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=846&SiteID=1

• Xbox 360 Home Brew XNA Tutorialshttp://xbox360homebrew.com/content/XNATutorialMasterList.aspx

• Ziggware (Ready Made Games, Tutorials and Downloads)http://www.ziggyware.com/news.php

• Virtual Realm (new Aussie XNA Online Community Site)http://www.virtualrealm.com.au/blogs/default.aspxglenn [dot] wilson [at] virtualrealm.com