XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

XNA 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

Mykres Space — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:56:50 GMT

Looks like the release of XNA 2.0 is just around the corner. The Microsoft XNA Team have announced that

XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:51:41 GMT

Michael Klucher announces on the XNA Team Blog This Friday, December 7 th , will be your final chance

re: XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

blarggstar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:44:24 GMT

Just wanted to say that I have a huge amount of gratitude to Microsoft and the XNA team for creating XNA framework.

I've been playing with it on and off since the day it came out, and I just love it.

I am not a game developer but have secretely always wanted to be.

So....Thanks!

re: XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

wingnet — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:01:27 GMT

xna is a good tool for the game developing fans.

anyway, i wish xna could provide more functions such as physics, network(not live network) in next version.

re: XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

Joao Uchoa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:41:08 GMT

It's sound good!

I am happy to see more and more the xna matured.

João Mesquita

Developer Games - Brazil

Microsoft Student Partner

re: XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta Ending Soon

sparcdr — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:46:53 GMT

Physics can be roughly provided by using available 3rd party solutions, such as Lua to script, although I agree a ubitquous physics component would greatly improve time to market ability for users needing a basic subset of capability. To start, basic ragdoll physics, boundary control, gravitational attributes, and feedback would greatly improve the situation. Networking can be provided already as XNA is based on a modified compact .net framework in C#, but obviously not for XBox. XBox does not have local tcp/ip functionality outside the scope of XBL, probably due to security reasons.

I look forward, and expect new books covering XNA GS 2.0 on the horizon, they are greatly needed as the current two books in circulation are for GS 1.0, parly incompatible with 2.0, although upgradable. New DirectX functionality, such as the new sound system to replace DirectSound on Windows will inevitably need proper documentation in the XNA context shortly.

More starter kits covering isometric games with view angles and racing sims would also be nice.

VS2008 support is needed, the multithreaded build system greatly improves productivity, but in the XNA sense little really improves it with VS2008, as the XBox is not using or capable of .NET 3.5 due to it using the compact .NET framework.