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GDC 08: Community Games Coming to Xbox Live

by Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:10am PST

Related Topics – GDC, GDC 08

During the Microsoft keynote Game Developers Conference today, chief XNA architect Chris Satchell announced "Xbox Live Community Games," a new project that will allow independent developers to freely distribute their games on Xbox Live.

The service will be "democratized," allowing gamers to create a game, submit it for distribution, rate the titles, and review them. Developers will be given "creator identities" which function similar to GamerTags, tracking which games they have created. If a submitted game is reviewed well--with other creators applying judgment on subjects such as "violent content" using simple sliders--it will then be allowed for full download on Xbox Live.

Demos of the first games developed under the project are already available on Xbox Live.

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By: Str8Dog x Show Full Post

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What is the possibility of self distributing? Say I put together a game and want my friends to be able to play it. Could I upload it to my website, they download it and transfer it to their Xbox via USB stick?

Feb 21, 2008 7:37am PST

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- no way : OrkO

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Big blog post on the XNA team blog talking about this...
http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/02/20/announcing-xbox-live-community-games.aspx

A small extract of what a lot of people seem most interested in:
1) We will offer different revenue sharing models to let you sell (or give away) your game. We will announce more complete details on this prior to the retail consumer launch this holiday season.

2) You will be able to self-rate your game with a provisional rating, subject to agreement of the peer reviewers that look at your game before you publish it

3) Microsoft retains the right to remove your game from the Xbox LIVE community games should you violate the Terms of Service in any way

4) Achievements, Gamerscore, and Leaderboard features will not be available. Those features are reserved for games published on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Also on the forthcoming Zune support:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/02/20/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-and-zune.aspx

Feb 20, 2008 2:28pm PST

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Big blog post on the XNA team blog talking about this... http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/02/20/an : Carnivac
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So to check these games out I have to pay $49 for a 4 month membership or $99 for a yearly one.

As Michael Bay would say, awesome!
I guess I misunderstood the 'freely distributed' part. Members only!

Feb 20, 2008 12:35pm PST

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So to check these games out I have to pay $49 for a 4 month membership or $99 for a yearly one. As Mic... : pyide
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  I thought it was just to release them? :( : mittense
  - That's what I though. I think something is messed up because no XNA games are showing up for me to downlo... : pyide
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    Ah, I see where I went wrong. I downloaded the XNA Game Launcher not the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher.... : pyide
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      I can't find that on the site. Where is it? : Fred Garvin
      
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      you download it on the 360, in the XNA section of the All Games download area. : pyide
      
      Cool, found it. Thanks. : Fred Garvin

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This is exactly what consoles need. I am very excited to see the "YouTube" of games. With how great Live already is I can only imagine how good this system will be.

Feb 20, 2008 11:20am PST

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  Hopefully the games will be inexpensive and we will see some really great games come from this. : mancide
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    I'm imaging the games will be free to download, but it's also possible they will cost a small fee. : SockMonkeh
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      This can only mean good thing for indie developers. Which is good, because that's what I thought XNA was ... : mittense
      
      Yeah, I started leaning XNA and I was hyped to be developing cute little indie games in the future, but o... : SockMonkeh

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Download the game "The Dishwasher" holy shit this game is awsome.

Feb 20, 2008 1:38pm PST

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Download the game "The Dishwasher" holy shit this game is awsome. : jabuck
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- Youtube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscKqMsnpJY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im8pSPeUo... : jabuck

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Can't wait for the games with naked animated characters chasing tentacles to put in their orifices!

Feb 20, 2008 11:23am PST

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Can't wait for the games with naked animated characters chasing tentacles to put in their orifices! : Wolfanoz
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  I'm going to write that cockboat racing game I've always wanted to do. : ThomW

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Oh god yes I cannot wait.

Feb 20, 2008 11:58am PST

Oh god yes I cannot wait. : OverloadUT

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By: SockMonkeh x Show Full Post

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I have a large erection for this.

Feb 20, 2008 11:23am PST

I have a large erection for this. : SockMonkeh

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By: razlebol x Show Full Post

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That's awesome. About time they allow anyone to release games on the system.

Feb 20, 2008 11:21am PST

That's awesome. About time they allow anyone to release games on the system. : razlebol