How do I develop games for the XBox 360?

Hot Topic

OBB Collision Detection getting it to work
Screen sized quad blend with rendered scene and shadows
Convert DirectInput.Key to string
Passing two normals for a vertex to the vertex shader
DirectX or Managed DirectX ?
Direct Play Voice Session
Broken Link to MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release
commercial use
IntelliSense with October DirectX SDK
MDX Matrix.RotateX not doing what I expected...

Game Technologies

DrawImage(img, pts)
MDXInfo Tutorials
.X Export a simple Maya model
DirectX - Type or Namespace Not Found Error
DirectInput keyboard keys get stuck
How do I uninstall DirectX 9c
Online Strategy project
Shader versions and efficiency on same shader code
Debugging w/ XACT in a proj
problem loading mesh from .X file.

How do I develop games for the XBox 360?

The starting point to learn how to build games for the XBox 360 is here.

In a nutshell though, building games on your PC using the DirectX SDK is the best starting point for building games for the XBox 360.




Answer this question

How do I develop games for the XBox 360?

  • hgen_banks

    The Xbox 360 is not designed to be a stand-alone computer running an operating system.  In spite of the wishful thinking of many people Smile

  • Steve Hiner

    Hi!! Where I can find a SDK to XBOX I Whant to star develop VideoGames in XBOX How I can start

  • Steve Flaum

    Will the new XDK require a XBOX connected to the pc again
    or will it be able to compile and run without.

  • sagiraju

    Interesting - it gives the impression that XBox development may be opened up sometime in the future. 

  • James Jackson

     David Weller wrote:
    The Xbox 360 is not designed to be a stand-alone computer running an operating system.



    I'm really not sure what you mean here. Do you think the original Xbox is not a stand-alone computer running an operating system

  • tom6wenhardt6

    It wasn't designed to be one. The OS is stripped down and it doesn't have all the capabilities of a PC unless you seriously hack it.

  • Developer1

    You can't get an XDK for xbox or xbox360 unless you are a registered developer and for now this means you are a big company with lots of $$$$ All the public information is here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/dev



  • Wims

     Jim Perry wrote:
    The OS is stripped down


    OK. This is getting somewhere. The Xbox _is_ running an OS (as it was designed to do I would say), all be it a minimal one.

    As for being a standalone one... well I'm sure it works for all those people who don't have subscriptions to XboxLive
  • How do I develop games for the XBox 360?
Answer this question