Xbox Community Games Arrive at New Xbox Experience Launch

by Blake Ellison, Oct 17, 2008 12:04pm PDT

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The Xbox Community Games feature, the long-awaited system allowing amateur developers to create games for the Xbox 360, will come online with its own Channel when the New Xbox Experience launches on November 19.

A video interview with Kathleen Sanders from the XNA team on Major Nelson reveals the process by which aspiring developers can design and submit their own games to Xbox Live. Xbox Live subscribers can download games from the Community Games Channel, though none of them will be free.

XNA contest winners The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, left, and Blazing Birds

"It's crazy, the range of games [I've seen] ... you've got Pong clones, you've got RTSs ... it continually surprises me," Sanders said of the games made so far.

"Unlike Xbox Live Arcade games, when a creator creates a game, from the time that they submit it for peer review, to the time it appears on Xbox Live, is 48 hours," commented Sanders.

XNA is a development environment for programmers to create games for Windows and Xbox 360 and Microsoft has incentivized XNA game development in the past with Xbox Live Arcade contracts. Now, creators themselves will be able to sell games and collect 70% royalties for their work.

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By: jtthe2nd x Show Full Post

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What is with MS's insistence that NOTHING going through XBL be free? XBL users already pay a damn fee for the service. If a developer wants to offer something free why the hell not? Is it a principle thing or a bandwidth thing?

Oct 17, 2008 12:22pm PDT

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I need The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai right now. I've been wondering when it was going to resurface. The demo was fun (and gory) as hell.

Oct 18, 2008 8:27am PDT

I need The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai right now. I've been wondering when it was going to resurface. The de... : hoov1185

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My only concern with their setup is that submitted games are peer-reviewed, not professionally reviewed. So you've got a bunch of people who are going to approve your games based on their own pre-conceptions of what good game design is, and not everybody's conceptions make sense. As in subscribers ONLY approving games that are so obscure that only they like them, the kind of people who think games like Half Life aren't innovative (believe me, they're out there. )

Also, what about XNA Creators premium subscribers who have repeatedly had their shitty games rejected? They still have the power to be a part of the peer review process, I'm sure disgruntled subscribers will take it out on their own community.

The entire getup seems pretty open to abuse and negligence. I hope that MS sets up some kind of ombudsman service so that flagrant abuses of the process are dealt with appropriately. Or at least makes so that only subscribers with approved games themselves can approve others.

Oct 17, 2008 12:33pm PDT

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My only concern with their setup is that submitted games are peer-reviewed, not professionally reviewed. ... : robotbebop
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- That's not what the peer review system is for. They're reviewing for objectionable content not whether th... : derelict515
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  Have you even seen the peer review forms and tutorials? It's meant to be extremely objective, and meant t... : zehh
  - http://creators.xna.com/en-US/review_detail : zehh
  - Ahh, well that makes sense then. That makes me feel worlds better, thanks. Peer-review seemed pretty stra... : robotbebop

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