Microsoft XNA Game Studio

Microsoft XNA Game Studio - Support for making Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox 360 games

Microsoft XNA Game Studio is an integrated development environment of IDE that supports developers to develop video games on Microsoft XNA platform. These games can be played on Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone.

Developing games with Microsoft XNA Game Studio

XNA Game Studio is aimed at experienced programmers or hobbyists making 2D and 3D games in Microsoft environment. Games can be exported to Xbox 360 through the XNA Creator's Club membership card (1 year free). XNA Game Studio has been released many times and so far, the latest version is 4.0.

Version 4.0 was released at the Game Developers Conference in 2010 as a Community Technical Preview. It supports Windows Phone platform (including hardware acceleration), customizable effects, positive objects, multi-touch operations, microphone use, audio playback and integration with Visual. Studio 2010.

Start a new project with XNA Game Studio 4.0

Basically, XNA Game Studio owns a library of classes that contain features geared towards game developers. In addition, XNA Game Studio also has tools to add audio and graphics content to the game. XNA Game Studio 4.0 contains XNA Framework 4.0 - a game development library based on .NET Framework 4.0. With XNA Game Studio, developers can use both the capabilities of the XNA Framework and the .NET Framework to develop games. You can read the detailed instructions on how to use XNA Game Studio at this site.

System requirements

• Windows XP and above operating systems.
• The video card supports at least Shader Model 1.1 and DirectX 9.0c.
• Recommend a video card that supports Shader Model 2.0 (required for some samples and starter kits).
• To execute (execute) and debug the XNA Framework game for Windows Phone, you need a graphics card that supports at least DirectX 10, which supports WDDM 1.1 driver.
• To develop games for Xbox 360, you need a hard drive installed on the Xbox 360 console.
• The other requirements for XNA Game Studio are the same as for Visual Studio 2010.

Steps to install XNA Game Studio

• Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Update to the latest version from Microsoft Update
• Download and run Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Follow the installation guide steps
• Open Visual Studio 2010 from XNA Game Studio on the Start menu

Besides the latest version of XNA Game Studio, you can also download older versions including 3.1, 3.0, 2.0, Express 1.0 Refresh using the links in the download link.

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