Kodu Now Available on Xbox LIVE Community Games.

Kodu was developed by Microsoft Research to expand  game development to every level. Now using this visual programming, everyone able to create games more easily. Now you can buy this for 400 Microsoft points from XBOX Live Marketplace.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855024c
Image courtesy – creators.xna.com , xbox.com

My First XBOX Live Avatar game.

After I have downloaded the XNA Game Studio 3.1 i was able to make my first Avatar game prototype.
This was the screenshots of that game.
 

 

Game Play Video

XNA 3.1 Released.

XNA 3.1 was released yesterday with new set of features.

Avatar Support: Render and animate Avatars to use in your game to represent gamers and other characters within your game.
Xbox LIVE Party Support: Enabling gamers to communicate, even when each gamer is not playing the same game in the same multiplayer session. LIVE [...]

Xbox360 Game Development using XNA Presentation at Microsoft Student Champ Meeting

Recently I had a presentation about XBOX360 game development using XNA at the Microsoft student champ meeting.In my presentation I was describe about ,
—E3
—Introduction to XBOX360
—XNA Framework on XBOX360
—Demo and Examples.
—Resources.

Speed Breaker (XBOX360 / PC)

These are some of the screen shots of  the racing game I`m currently working on.

 

 

Team Credit
Team Lead/Lead game developer       -Uditha sampath bandara
Game developer                                       -Wenura gamage
2D Artist                                                     -Mudith parakkrama
3D Artist                                                     -Anuradha  pushpamal

XNA 3.1 announced

Yesterday at GDC Microsoft announce the next version of the XNA Game studio.
It comes with lot of new features .Like you can use XBOX Live avatars for you games also new XDK hardware for the development  and more.
courtesy-http://creators.xna.com/en-US/

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2009/03/24/dream-build-play-2009-and-xna-game-studio-3-1-announced-at-gdc.aspx
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22877

XNA @GDC
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/press/gdc2009

Xbox360 Game development with XNA tutorials.

Basic example shows you how use XNA to develop Xbox360 games. tutorial 1-hello world tutorial 2-draw 2d image XNA version-XNA game studio 3.0
Download from- http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/XNAINXBOX360

Setup Xbox360 for develop XNA games.

First you need to download XNA Game studio connect from Xbox live.
You can found that from Xbox live market place. Go to
All games->Genre->Others->XNA Creators club
 

And you need to have XNA creator’s club membership for develop XNA games.If you are a student you can get that free from Microsoft dream spark program.Or you need to [...]