XNA development
Although everyone and his brother has already posted this, I gotta try…
Microsoft has made avaliable the beta of XNA Game Studio Express, a set of free tools for programming games targeted to Windows and XBox. It includes the XNA Framework, which is no less than a collection of managed libraries geared towards a (much needed) simplification of using DirectX.
Oriented to students and amateur programmers (and actually reaching out to almost every programmer1) at the moment XNA Game Studio is only compatible with Visual C# 2005 Express.
Tehre’s already a site (that I know of) collecting all the download links for all the needed tools (and yeah, they’re all free); and some tutorials to boot: XNA Development.
I don’t know why, but I don’t think I’m going to get out much this weekend…
1.- C’mon, which one of you has not once dreamed about game programming? It’s the Top Gun of computer programming!
