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[moycon]

Xbox LIVE "Community Games" is a new offering from Xbox LIVE that gives you an opportunity to share, peer review, download, and play games created by the community, for the community. Starting with the beta launch of the service later this spring, members of the XNA Creators Club will be able to submit their own game creations for self-publishing to Xbox LIVE Marketplace via the XNA Creators Club creators.xna.com website.

A community of their peers will be given a chance to download, play, and review the game and its content for appropriateness and conformance to the service's Terms of Service. Should it pass, the game will then get added to the global games catalog on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and available to gamers worldwide connected to Xbox LIVE.

You Can Be a Developer
All it takes for anyone to develop games for Community Games is to obtain the XNA Game Studio 2.0 toolset free from creators.xna.com and join the XNA Creators Club ($49 for 4 months or $99 for 12 months).

Individuals of all skill levels can participate in the making of a game for Community Games, as many games are created by teams where different members bring different skills and strengths such as game design, production, 2-D or 3-D art creation, sound effects, and of course game programming. We have received many heartwarming stories from our community members who have tried unsuccessfully in the past to create video games and yet were immediately successful in completing their games using the easy-to-use XNA Game Studio tools.

Edited by moycon, Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:55 AM.

[moycon]

FYI, You can now download and try this out for nothing.
Go to the marketplace and download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher.
Once that is done go to the Games blade and pick Games Library and the "My Games"
There should now be a tab along the top that says XNA Creators Club move over to that and hit the "Y" button.
You can download all the cuurent games (7 of them) right now for free.
Thing is you have to snag them by Feb 24th and they stop working March 9th I think.
After that you have to pay like $10 a month to be a member.
I haven't checked out any of the games yet, just now downloaded them. I've heard Jelly Car and The Dishwasher are kick ass though.
I'm not sure if I'll invest the $10 a month after the trial is over, I have too many retail 360 games sitting on the shelf as it is, but I figured I pass this on since it's free for the next few days.

[Breakpack]

moycon, on Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:55 AM, said:

FYI, You can now download and try this out for nothing.
Go to the marketplace and download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher.
Once that is done go to the Games blade and pick Games Library and the "My Games"
There should now be a tab along the top that says XNA Creators Club move over to that and hit the "Y" button.
You can download all the cuurent games (7 of them) right now for free.
Thing is you have to snag them by Feb 24th and they stop working March 9th I think.
After that you have to pay like $10 a month to be a member.
I haven't checked out any of the games yet, just now downloaded them. I've heard Jelly Car and The Dishwasher are kick ass though.
I'm not sure if I'll invest the $10 a month after the trial is over, I have too many retail 360 games sitting on the shelf as it is, but I figured I pass this on since it's free for the next few days.

I saw this,but after I saw the $49 and $99 tags,I said "yikes,Ill pass".The idea of testing out games developed from the regular Joe is intriguing,but paying to do it turns me off a bit.Interesting concept,but Im not made of money,M$.Now to punch in my $20 3 month Live code

[JB]

Breakpack, on Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:27 AM, said:

moycon, on Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:55 AM, said:

FYI, You can now download and try this out for nothing.
Go to the marketplace and download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher.
Once that is done go to the Games blade and pick Games Library and the "My Games"
There should now be a tab along the top that says XNA Creators Club move over to that and hit the "Y" button.
You can download all the cuurent games (7 of them) right now for free.
Thing is you have to snag them by Feb 24th and they stop working March 9th I think.
After that you have to pay like $10 a month to be a member.
I haven't checked out any of the games yet, just now downloaded them. I've heard Jelly Car and The Dishwasher are kick ass though.
I'm not sure if I'll invest the $10 a month after the trial is over, I have too many retail 360 games sitting on the shelf as it is, but I figured I pass this on since it's free for the next few days.

I saw this,but after I saw the $49 and $99 tags,I said "yikes,Ill pass".The idea of testing out games developed from the regular Joe is intriguing,but paying to do it turns me off a bit.Interesting concept,but Im not made of money,M$.Now to punch in my $20 3 month Live code

Well, you're paying for the ability to write 360 games and upload them to others as well...

Don't think of it as being gouged for homebrews.
Think of it as Sony's NetYaroze, only done right.