{"id":8138,"date":"2006-12-11T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/develop-your-own-games-with-xna-game-studio-express\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T17:37:40","slug":"develop-your-own-games-with-xna-game-studio-express","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/develop-your-own-games-with-xna-game-studio-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Develop Your Own Games with XNA Game Studio Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Microsoft<\/i> has today made XNA Game Studio Express version 1.0 available as free download. It allows game development for Windows and Xbox 360 platforms.<br \/>\nRequirements for XNA Game Studio Express are Windows XP SP2, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card and Visual C# 2005 Express Edition which is also available as <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/visualcsharp\/\">free download<\/a> from Microsoft. XNA development environment comes bundled with source code of Spacewar game which acts as a tutorial. Development of games with Live support is not possible at the moment, though.<\/p>\n<p>In order to play self-made games on Xbox 360 <i>XNA Game Launcher<\/i> must be downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace and gamer profile must have active <i>XNA Creator\u00b4s Club<\/i> subscription. These are available from Marketplace under Games category. XNA Creator\u00b4s Club subscription costs EUR 49,00 for 4 months or EUR 99,00 per year.<\/p>\n<p>XNA Game Studio Express is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=A73A7E71-FF41-432D-A0EB-043E904A1905&#038;displaylang=en\">here<\/a>. Coding games of your dreams can now begin!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/upload\/newsmedia\/h2igXNA-ikkuna.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" class=\"pic\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has today announced the availability of XNA Game Studio Express 1.0. This allows development of your own titles for Windows and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news\/8138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}