XBox and directX

I am new to game programming and directX and I would like to inquire about the following problems...

  • I want to develop games for my Xbox; Is there a DirectX SDK for that or the DirectX10 SDK would work with it.
  • If there is another SDK then where can it be downloaded from
  • How do I view the game that I would be developing at my PC, through an emulator or something
  • And can the LAN connection of the Xbox be used to dump the game resource and exe's on to its harddrive and then run from there

Your responses would really be appreciated,

thank you.



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XBox and directX

  • tabdalla

    You probably want to check out the XNA announcement from GDC '06

    Makes for some very interesting times for people wanting to get into commercial games without the stupidly high budgets of AAA studioes...

    Cheers,
    Jack


  • Vladimir Nesterovsky

    Hi!!, where I can register for get a Xbox SDK , or how I can sell my video game to microsoft , because I stared to develop a Video game for PC, and I want make it for Xbox, can you help me, where I can register to obtain a SDK for Xbox and the XNA

    Thanks!!!!


  • bidur

    You'll have to register yourself with MS to get the XBox SDK. The process is targetted towards companies actually, it costs (and a lot), and they need to review if your game meets certain requirements... etc etc... The answers for all of your other questions are contained within the XDK :)

  • TSDesignz

    Unless you are a major publisher with lots of $$$ you can't. See http://www.xbox.com/en-US/dev/developingforxbox360.htm

    For XBox live arcade you can read this article from a talk at GDC http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/gdc2006/article.asp id=669

    XNA framework is not currently availalbe, nor is a timeline for its release been announced. Also no details are released on if or how it will work with writing games for an actual xbox360.



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