Colloquium Details
Making Your Own Xbox 360 Video Games with XNA Game Studio Express
| Author: | Charles Cox Microsoft |
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| Date: | March 15, 2007 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Virginia Lo |
Abstract
Harnessing the power of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console was previously a privilege extended to sizable video game studios with large development teams and equally large budgets. Now, with a new technology from Microsoft called XNA Game Studio Express, the console has been opened up to hobbyists, students, and anyone with a desire to see their video game ideas come to life. XNA Game Studio Express is a cross-platform (Windows and Xbox 360) game-development focused product; games are created in C# using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, XNA Game Studio Express extensions, and the XNA Framework - a cross-platform game-specific API. This presentation highlights the key features of this new product, demonstrates the cross-platform capabilities, and includes a demo of the XNA Framework.
Biography
Charles Cox is a developer educator for Microsoft, who started work at Sierra Studios as a developer on the SWAT game series. Since then, he has developed and delivered end-user and developer-focused educational content for Microsoft Game Studios, the Microsoft Windows SDK, the Microsoft DirectX team, and most recently, XNA Game Studio Express, where he develops and delivers game development documentation, tutorials, and educational workshops. He is a graduate of the Digipen Institute of Technology, a video game development school in Redmond, Washington.