Comments on: Driving in the Xbox 360 rain http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051125/2663/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Create and deploy your own Xbox 360 games with XNA Game Studio Express launch » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051125/2663/#comment-361978 Create and deploy your own Xbox 360 games with XNA Game Studio Express launch » Make You Go Hmm Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:43:15 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051125/2663/#comment-361978 [...] Christmas for game developers has arrived early, some nine months since it became official, thirteen since I dreamed about it. [...] […] Christmas for game developers has arrived early, some nine months since it became official, thirteen since I dreamed about it. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Where do I send the check for the $100 Xbox developer kit? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051125/2663/#comment-60511 Make You Go Hmm: » Where do I send the check for the $100 Xbox developer kit? Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:15:35 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051125/2663/#comment-60511 [...] If this actually happens and the kit isn’t completely handicapped it’s a really smart marketing move. It could bring back the games of yesterday and open up a marketplace on Live for smaller games developers to create entertainment (and revenue). I mused back in November 2005 that it would be exciting and a little like 1980-1985 all over again if the field was more wide open for smaller game developers. I believe that you’ll see some innovation from smaller developers that isn’t possible for the bigger ones who have to spent millions making games and can’t affort to take the risks that smaller publishers can do with a download only marketplace and not as involved graphics/gameplay elements requiring teams of artists, actors and programmers. [...] […] If this actually happens and the kit isn’t completely handicapped it’s a really smart marketing move. It could bring back the games of yesterday and open up a marketplace on Live for smaller games developers to create entertainment (and revenue). I mused back in November 2005 that it would be exciting and a little like 1980-1985 all over again if the field was more wide open for smaller game developers. I believe that you’ll see some innovation from smaller developers that isn’t possible for the bigger ones who have to spent millions making games and can’t affort to take the risks that smaller publishers can do with a download only marketplace and not as involved graphics/gameplay elements requiring teams of artists, actors and programmers. […]

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