Monday, March 05, 2007

XNA Creators site launched

A new site for XNA "Creators" has been put up by our friends at Microsoft. I took a brief look at the site and I think it's great. I think it has some bugs (wouldn't let me log in, something about not having a gamer tag even though i do have one). But, overall, the site looks great and it already has a few nice things on it. The first, a new starter kit. I think this is fantastic, we can never have too many examples check out. Another of interest to me, is a sample for font rendering in XNA. I have been hoping we would get this without having to wait too long and it looks like its coming. Not sure when, but they look like they could release it the way it is, or at least in the near future. There are other resources on the site too and hopefully they will be very active with the site and keep posting updates/code/tutorials/starter kits etc. I think the biggest winner here will be the community.

From the article:

The XNA Creators Club Online community site is open for business! Head on over to http://creators.xna.com and register for the XNA Creators Club Online community. You’ll find some great content such as: * A brand new starter kit! (Marblets) * Several samples including a skinning (animation) sample using the XNA Framework Content Pipeline! * Downloadable sample games. New developer forums. * Video tutorials. * Much, much, more!

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