What is the XNA Framework

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EastBeast314 — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:24:18 GMT

Great information and just what I was hoping to hear! Thanks!

That's a lot of code

dennyrolling — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:54:01 GMT

but what would it actually do? create empty window?

re: That's a lot of code

fuzzdawg — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:15:28 GMT

That's not much code at all.
All it does is create a graphics context and load it into a "Game" application, into which the color blue is drawn into the window.

Especially since from the article it seems the XNA framework would take care of all the library initialization and such (audio, graphics, file I/O, etc...)

Cheers.

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JoelMartinez — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:23:00 GMT

Good to hear ... I just picked up a 360 a few days ago in preparation for this :-D

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miketuck3r — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:44:25 GMT

joel, no need for a 360 to start with all can be done on the pc

the actual ability to upload code to the 360 is not expected until later in the year.., or is that the ability to share it?

I think my first task will be to create a controller test tool to represent the selection of each button with a visual action, then look at representing the analogue sticks graphically, baby steps :)

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re: What is the XNA Framework

intraclast — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:28:03 GMT

As a complete beginner to c#, but with basic programming knowledge, this is good news. I was wondering how much of the hard work XNA was going to do for us, and it looks like quite a lot.

I particularly like the idea of being able to play about with an existing game, and getting to learn the language by example, thats how I learnt to code for Neverwinter Nights.

There are going to be an awful lot of beginners out there with as little (or less) knowledge than me. I hope there will be lots of howtos and walkthroughs to stop us from getting frustrated.

Thanks for the update, a good read.

Alt-Tab, display modes, timers

PeterMackay — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:38:19 GMT

Thanks for this post, there's some great info there. I really like the code sample too.

If you can say at this stage, do you know how we would handle:

1. Alt-Tab. In my games I would like to pause the action when the window loses focus.

2. Display modes.

3. Will it be possible to have a non fullscreen window?

4. Timers. I like to use time-based movement to maintain the same game speed despite the frame rates varying from PC to PC. How do I hook in a timer?

Many thanks,
Peter

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struckm — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:28:00 GMT

Are there going to be any API's regarding networking or being able to use the Live service. Thanks.

Mark

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re: What is the XNA Framework

miketuck3r — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:07:25 GMT

MArk check the XNA FAQ the networking code is not in the initial realese but will be added later, remember they have to create the manged code objects

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re: What is the XNA Framework

XNABlog — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:12:48 GMT

Hi Peter, I answered your questions over in the XNA Framework forum.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=670758&SiteID=1&mode=1

re: What is the XNA Framework

PeterMackay — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:28:52 GMT

Thanks :-)

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dusda — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:36:00 GMT

I can't wait for this to be released. I'm taking a introduction to game development class at Neumont University, here in Salt Lake City, UT. Working with Managed DirectX has been incredibly fun, but I look forward to seeing what I can do with XNA. As awesome as building a game engine is, there are a lot of annoyances (window behavior, resource management, etc) that it looks like XNA will be able to solve.

Is the XNA team interested in interns, by chance? Neumont has a program called Enterprise Projects; many students have worked with Microsoft on various projects through the program before. There are half a dozen or so of us about to hit Enterprise Projects this fall or next January that would be extremely interested in something like this.

re: What is the XNA Framework

Pipper — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:15:59 GMT

This is nice and all, but I honestly think this will be a bit useless until we can get these on our 360s. Not many people have displays that can do 1920x1080, let alone the horsepower to match the 360.

I think the trying to keep it available for both platforms is a bit of a silly idea. When we're cranking out 360 games worth playing with XNA, there is no way many people will be able to play these games.

Hopefully the focus is mainly on the 360 end of things. People have already had many easy ways to make games on Windows for years already. Please dont let trying both platforms being compatable "hamper" XNA.

Most(?) of use are just interested in creating 360 games only. With little to no hope of even bothering to have them run on our Windows boxes.

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crashlander — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:31:43 GMT

"Most(?) of use are just interested in creating 360 games only. With little to no hope of even bothering to have them run on our Windows boxes."

I think if you took a poll you would find this if far from true!

re: What is the XNA Framework

miketuck3r — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:24:30 GMT

Pipper the whole point is to have ONE development effort for BOTH platforms

The whole effort is to make it easier to develop for windows and xbox not to provide a console centric devleopment API

Development costs are spiraling upwards and especially as xbox live functionalty seems to be coming to vista aswell it makes sense

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XNA framework

Patrick Bes Blog — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:26:06 GMT

I see that the XNA team released an item on their blog with some more information on the XNA framework.

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Mickey Gousset — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:09:08 GMT

Mitch Walker via the XNA Team Blog - What is the XNA Framework?

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re: What is the XNA Framework

Pipper — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:55:29 GMT

"Pipper the whole point is to have ONE development effort for BOTH platforms"

Actually, the whole point was to open us a console to homebrew. People have been able to have an easy way to program games on Windows for years already. But gaming has pretty much died out on the Windows platforms unless you're an MMORPG addict these days. It's not because of developement costs, it's because people have actually found that console gaming is where it is at, and has finally become powerful enough that they can play their once favorite PC games on their couch with their XBox360. People have been moving to OSX because gaming is less of a concern these days on the home computer. Gamers have migrated onto the consoles FINALLY.

This is why people are excited, now we can have a closed spec system to code on. We can write demos that push the hardware for the system to its limits, use all the cores, and all the interesting GPU functions that dont even exist on home PCs yet. The demos will be mind blowing, and show people the potential of the 360 so long as Microsoft doesn't keep the power from us so it can be "compatible" with Windows.

How many people do you know that have monitors that can output 1920x1080, and do insane 3D operations on their Windows box? The top 1% of gaming PC hardware owners most likely, this is who XNA will appeal to on the Windows side.

I'm sorry if this sounds like a rant, it's not. I appreciate what MS is trying to do. But i'm just pointing out he obvious here, people want to code on the console because it hasn't been available like this ever before. Windows, sure, no big deal, but a next gen console? Especially one that has hardware functions that can't even be replicated on a Windows PC yet? Sign me up!

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PrettyBoyTim — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:25:13 GMT

Pipper, I think you're confusing what you would like the whole point of XNA to be with what Microsoft considers the point of XNA to be. At the very top of this article it enumerates the stated goals of the XNA Framework:

* Enable Cross-Platform Game Development
* Simplify Game Development

Although the ability to run code on the 360 is undoubtably excellent, their main focus seems to be on improving the game development process on all Microsoft platforms.

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