posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 2:13 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Develop Xbox 360 games using C#?
If this announcement really does mean developers could write games from the Xbox 360 using C#/.NET, I think that would be a fanastic move for Microsoft.
Especially if they price the development kit/marketplace around one-person/small teams of developers, like the old Spectrum/Codemasters/Matthew Smith days. Using the same simple micro-payment/credits from Xbox Live to allow these independents to make a few dollars per game per user.
They might produce the next Geometry Wars game - see someone score over 2.1 million!
Also on the Experience User Centered Design site, they have some design discussions around the Xbox 360, including some early prototypes for the dashboard UI:
