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Xbox Live! Arcade Release? – Gump

GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002	I realize there are a lot of people working on their own projects here and of course there is the Bible Dave group project. These are the types of games being sold on Microsoft's Xbox Live! Arcade. Has anyone here considered releasing their titles to Arcade?
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004	Games like Bible Dave are being sold on the XBox Live Arcade? Wow. I don't have an XBox, much less a Live account, so I guess I'm out of the loop on all of this stuff. Can anyone develop and release an XBox Live game? Is there an SDK that needs to be used or something? Thanks for bringing this to our attn!
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005	quote: Originally posted by Gump: I realize there are a lot of people working on their own projects here and of course there is the Bible Dave group project. These are the types of games being sold on Microsoft's Xbox Live! Arcade. Has anyone here considered releasing their titles to Arcade? It would be awesome to see an OSS game and even more awesome to see BD on Xbox live. I'll consider it when someone ports Pygame to the Xbox. ------------------ All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base ``After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2
buddboy Member Posts: 2220 From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S. Registered: 10-08-2004	lol OSS? and couldn't you look into porting the binaries to XBOX Arcade? lol... it's possible!! lol... ------------------ In the stock market, you must buy high and sell low...Wait! That's not right! -------------- Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!
GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002	quote: Originally posted by HanClinto: Games like Bible Dave are being sold on the XBox Live Arcade? Bunch of 2D games and some 3D games. Bible Dave will likely need a significant face lift graphics-wise in order for M$ to accept it.
buddboy Member Posts: 2220 From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S. Registered: 10-08-2004	lol yah... it's getting that but it still needs more lol... ------------------ In the stock market, you must buy high and sell low...Wait! That's not right! -------------- Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!
guategeek Member Posts: 107 From: Guatemala Registered: 11-08-2005	We are hoping to develop for Xbox Live Arcade in the future, when the Unity game engine gets ported over to it. I think you need Xbox development hardware to publish the final product to LiveArcade, so its not supper cheap to do. But I guess someone could buy one and become a "publisher" for others. Jeff [This message has been edited by guategeek (edited February 21, 2006).]
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005	quote: Originally posted by buddboy: lol OSS? and couldn't you look into porting the binaries to XBOX Arcade? lol... it's possible!! lol... Open Source Software. Something M$ hates :P Sure, but pygame needs to be ported first. quote: Originally posted by Gump: Bunch of 2D games and some 3D games. Bible Dave will likely need a significant face lift graphics-wise in order for M$ to accept it. Bah, so it's not communityishly maintained? (They don't want mario style graphics and games on there?) ------------------ All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base ``After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2 [This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited February 21, 2006).]
Ashton_JX Member Posts: 156 From: Springfield, Oregon, USA Registered: 02-21-2005	I wouldn't imagine Microsoft giving too much freedom to the "little guy". No doubt they control the content with an iron fist. ------------------ 1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. New Living Translation
GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002	You're right. Read page 14 of the new Game Developer magazine issue. The manager of the Arcade department made it very clear that they're going to limit the available games...and he receives around 12 submissions per week. Ah well, too bad.
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004	From what I was reading over on the Torque website about developing games for the 360, it sounds like there's a MS development kit that costs around $10k (assuming you can get approval to buy the dev kit).