Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

Tom Kirby-Green — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:01:28 GMT

Crossing my fingers that one of those 'details' is Vista support :-)

XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2: Coming Soon!

Let's Kill Dave! — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:46:29 GMT

Check out today's blog post from the XNA team blog regarding the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

JudahGabriel — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:00:30 GMT

Cool! Looking forward to the content pipeline!

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petknep — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:17:48 GMT

It better support Vista. Everyone in your org should be selfhosting Vista anyways. I'll come over there if you aren't :).

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krvss — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:24:33 GMT

Great :)

What I dream of:

1. Programming guides those cover 2D vector graphics.

2. Some GUI stuff

3. Several small examples for different areas of framework.

4. Something about XBox Live / Live Anywhere

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

Matteo Dello Ioio — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:21:57 GMT

GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!!!!!

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Machaira — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:00:31 GMT

Great news! I wasn't expecting this, but it's very welcome.

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Bargerse — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:04:56 GMT

Vista support, and being able to run against the professional versions of Visual Studio. Installing the Express version just for this is madness.

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nobodyman — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:33:11 GMT

Sweeet!! I can't wait to see how things are coming along. Many thanks for being so responsive to the community.

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johnnylightbulb — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:49:22 GMT

Totally awesome, I can't wait! Information is at such a premium in this community that a post like this is like throwing chum to the sharks... Thanks for the info!

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

shinji — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:14:45 GMT

Xbox 360 support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XNA and GSE Beta 2, using Oct DirectX SDK and Vista

Mykre's Space — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:35:16 GMT

Microsoft have announced that they plan to release the next beta of the XNA Framework and Game Studio

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cchance — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:07:51 GMT

OK #1... XNA STUDIO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!

#2.... thank you god for 360 support!!!

#3 Will this version finally include Procedural Synthesis/Texturing??????????????????????????????????????????????????

#4 you guys should really work to get some XNA ports onto the 360 and sold to show how awesome the xna strategy can be.,.. i mean a game like

http://xbox360homebrew.com/blogs/alex/archive/2006/10/23/1152.aspx would be wicked on my 360!

God forbid you strap on a good soundtrack and add multiplayer muhahahha 2d snowboarding hehehe i mean thats one game i really saw and said "wow thats homebrew holly crap"

XNA ROX

Bargerse represent!

coldacid — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:43:28 GMT

Gotta agree with Bargerse. I have VS2005 Std, and I don't want the redundancy of installing VC# Exp just to use GSE. That'll just encourage me to not use it at all.

you CAN use the XNA libraries with vs2005pro/std

parnell — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:08:04 GMT

All you have to do is grab the reference dlls from an installation and add them as references in any empty project (then change it to a windows project in the project config)... inherit the game object and start working... problem is no help file. What you don't get is the lazy man project templates but they really don't do much.

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

Jesse Towner — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:38:01 GMT

Yeah, you don't need the project templates in order to use it with another version of VS2005.

I can't wait to see how the Content Pipeline sits architecturally, it will allow us developers to see how we should build our scene graphs to work with XNA.

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

Michael Klucher — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:07:09 GMT

Thanks for all the feedback everyone, to address Bargerse’s and coldacid’s comments. This version will not differ in that it only uses Visual C# Express. If you haven’t taken a look please read Joe’s post for more information about this: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/10/10/XNA-Game-Studio-Express_2C00_-C_2300_-and-Visual-C_2300_-2005-Express-Edition.aspx

XNA Happenings

Mitch Walker — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:01:59 GMT

You've probably seen the post announcing we're releasing a Beta 2 of XNA Game Studio Express . This release

XNA Game Studio Express - Beta 2 - YES YES YES YES!!!

Daniel Shapiro's WebLog — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:56:06 GMT

Can you tell i'm excited? That's right... Beta 2 for XNA Game Studio Express is on its way!!! Check out

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coldacid — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:07:38 GMT

parnell: Quite aware of this, and it's exactly what I do. But isn't there supposed to be more to GSE than just the VS IDE? In which case simply working around like that means that I might as well not bother with GSE at all.

Michael: How about GSE 1.1?

XNA GSE Beta 2 announced

My Buttefly Game — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:32:29 GMT

Looks like the second beta will be released in time, containing the Content Pipeline. http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/10/23/announcing-xna-game-studio-express-beta-2.aspx...

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Duckocide — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:02:43 GMT

If it contains the content pipeline, I can't wait! My kids are itching to see my games run on our 360... Game on Microsoft !?!

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Ghoort — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:12:43 GMT

Do you plan to add physics in XNA?

re: Announcing XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2

Michael Klucher — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:01:34 GMT

coldacid: It's something we're looking at for our next release but no guarantees of course.

Ghoort: We have no plans to add physics at this time. Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll keep it in mind!

XNA and GSE Beta 2, using Oct DirectX SDK and Vista

Virtual Realm — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:47:19 GMT

Microsoft have announced that they plan to release the next beta of the XNA Framework and Game Studio Express . We should see this release over the next few weeks. " One of the most popular requests has been for a second beta and on behalf of the XNA