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XNA - What's free? What Isn't?
Posted Aug 20, 2006 at 7:31AM EST by QJ Staff

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XNA seems to be a thing of beauty when it was first announced. But recently, there has been some confusion on when to pay and when it's free. In case you are somewhat lost, XNA is also known as XNA Game Studio Express targets at students and hobbyists for game development. It is based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers target both Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express contains the following: The XNA Framework, which contains the libraries and the runtime, and XNA Game Studio Express (XNA GSE).

XNA GSE is a tool that helps you build and test games, and runs on Windows. This is what will be available as a beta release on August 30th, along with the XNA Framework libraries. For the Xbox 360, a custom runtime, based on the .NET Compact Framework was created. This runtime must be downloaded/installed on your Xbox 360 before you can run an XNA-based game on it.

Getting the Xbox 360 runtime requires a subscription to the XNA Creators Club, and it won't be available until XNA Game Studio Express hits initial (1.0) release during this holiday season. This is where the $99 annual subscription kicks in. The $99 annual subscription cost (or $49 for 4 months) of the XNA Creators Club covers the cost of downloading and providing security servicing/updates to the runtime.

So basically, building games using XNA Game Studio costs nada on Windows, but deploying games on the Xbox 360 is gonna cost you, since you need a membership in the Xbox Creators Club.

Comprende?

Via Let's Kill Dave

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# Freaking awesome — Guest 2006-08-20 10:11
Im loving me some Microsoft! This is the biggest step any big head corporation has ever taken towards the encouragement of homebrew and homebrew development!

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# Woot — Guest 2006-08-20 12:02
$100 should be nothing if you are prepared to invest the time games require. Bring on the fees I say!



But does anyone know if installing the runtime on the 360 voids the warranty?

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# ? — Guest 2006-08-20 15:50
How is this a good idea in any possible way? This is Microsoft just trying to cash in on homebrew..... The creators of homebrew usually tend to do it out of free time and without cost thats the whole point of the homebrew scene. But now if you think that people are going to buy these devkits and make hombrew without a catch and for free your out of your little everloving minds.

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# hi — Guest 2006-08-20 16:34
I recently found out this website which has fun and informative information about PS3, X360, and PC titles. It also has things like, what's the best top 5 games for each platform (PS3, X360, and PC)

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you should visit the above site too

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# limewire? — Guest 2006-08-20 18:41
couldnt you put the file for the 360 onto limewire or somthing like that, and then download it and put it on 360?

warez sites...all kinds of *****

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