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: 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. ------------------ ``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... ------------------ |
GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002 |
quote: 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... ------------------ |
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: Open Source Software. Something M$ hates :P
quote: Bah, so it's not communityishly maintained? (They don't want mario style graphics and games on there?) ------------------ ``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. ------------------ 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). |