XBox 360 Community Game Catalog (Beta) now available on XNA Creators Club

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

XBox 360 Community Game Catalog (Beta) now available on XNA Creators Club

"Today Microsoft has updated the Creators Club website and has exposed the Community Games Beta platform for submitting and reviewing games for Xbox LIVE! Among the changes are a new Quick Start Guide, Educational Content, a Role Playing Starter Kit and a Community Spotlight area.

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Visit the Creators Club web site" [Post leached in full]

XNA Team Blog = Announcing: Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta

"Today, we delivered on the promise we made at GDC to democratize game development with the launch of the newly designed XNA Creators Club Online Web site and the highly anticipated beta of Community Games on Xbox LIVE. When we announced this new service at GDC 2008, it was met with great excitement around the world. Now we’re pleased to offer you an opportunity to interact with this new site and test out the distribution pipeline to Xbox LIVE! If you’re a already a premium member, you will be able to join us in the Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta immediately, where you can submit your games and review others games, and enjoy playing them on Xbox LIVE! If you are not a member, sign up today and get involved in making game development history.

We’re extremely excited about what we have to offer – this effort represents, quite literally, several developer-years of work, and we’re proud to show it off!

Here are a few cool things we encourage you to check out:

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So much fun stuff to code, so little time...

There are two games currently in the Catalog, but I'm sure many more will be added quickly.

Since I'm a premium member I'm going to have to give the peer-review process a try this weekend... (Can't code a game as I'm still working on my Zune projects and have a ton of work to do on my other personal coding projects... oh yeah, and I have to fix my lawn sprinklers... sigh... ;)