Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 http://ch9files.blob.core.windows.net/build/2011/thumbs/756.jpg Channel 9 - Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 Xbox LIVE, Microsoft's premier entertainment service, is coming to Windows 8. Whether you are developing a game or another kind of entertainment app for Windows 8, Xbox LIVE can help your app stand out in the crowd and help engage and delight users. You will learn about how to implement our well-loved features like Achievements, Multiplayer, Avatars and Community and brand new ones like roaming storage and profiles. en Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:21 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:21 GMT Rev9 Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 As a long time WP7 developer can you advise how on earth I get an App onto the XBL program?

I'm currently planning on transitioning some of my apps to win8 and would love to add XBL functionality and also benefit from the added exposure that XBL apps seem to get.

Thanks,

Ian
http://rd3d2.wordpress.com
http://www.appsfuze.com/publisher/web-services-uk

posted by Ian2

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515450307524101 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:10:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515450307524101 Ian2 Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 Does this mean ms is opening up the Acheivements and Leaderboard API's in XNA? Historically for XBLIG you needed the XDK and for WP7, you needed a Publisher and MS granting you access to these.

Will this change for Windows 8 then for ALL Developers?

posted by garfbradaz

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515891770962819 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:26:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515891770962819 garfbradaz Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 First of all: what ever happened to the "Games for Windows" initiative of putting a focus on PC Games? All became a marketing stunt, without any technological improvements for PC Gaming. 

You left 'us' out in the cold for the last couple years. No, neither Win7 nor DX11 changed that.

I see the business and entertainment value for XBL on Windows 8 ... if it cannot run Steam or a Webbrowser (Facebook, Browsergames, Chrome Games, ...). Yes. Competition is hard. So, you have to have "your" platform polished right out of the gate?

Building layers of complexity on top of an already s**-load of piles of layers of complexity on PC's makes developing games even harder? Dozen of frameworks* and middleware libraries trying to compete with cpu and i/o cycles, all in the hope, it will scale on (future) manycores - yet, how many games 'really' scale on quadcores (or more?)??

*) Why do I have to download the XNA framework - as a consumer - to play Bastion on PC? Why is there no back-end solution? Every game comes with it's on flavor of DX dlls and VC library versions, on top of all the WinOS layers and drivers, competing with background services nobody needs while 'gaming'??!

The 'future of gaming' probably is happening on smart-phones/tablets right now, anyway. But if the "living-room media-center experience" can offer more than just Avatar 3D and Wii-clones (granted Kinect IS great technology) than having something to 'show off' - more than just in-game Twitter-style Notifications -  wouldn't be bad? I guess, I am asking, where is the next Alex St. John? Craig Eisler? Eric Engstrom?

posted by AlexCovic

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515938977140625 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:44:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634515938977140625 AlexCovic Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8

,Ian2 wrote

As a long time WP7 developer can you advise how on earth I get an App onto the XBL program?

I'm currently planning on transitioning some of my apps to win8 and would love to add XBL functionality and also benefit from the added exposure that XBL apps seem to get.

Thanks,

Ian

Watch the video from 54:00 on. He talks about who can use the service.

posted by Vidager

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634518146873782080 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:04:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634518146873782080 Vidager Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 A good talk and the REST interface to XBOX Live is intuitive and simple.  Now, how do I develop the actual substance of an XBOX game on windows 8.

The talk said we will be given all the tools/renders that are available to console developers.  For example exactly how would I make an XBOX Avatar appear in my game.  What namespace is used, and is there any examples/tutorials.  Since WinRT does not have XNA how can it be done?

Thanks,

posted by aidesigner

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634522282891873789 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:58:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634522282891873789 aidesigner Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 have plenty of games on my win 8,
i want developer's to think a lots of great games to fit on
my specification here, mostly freeware Games,
So Windows 8 will rule!

posted by metal id

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634543061359883548 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:08:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634543061359883548 metal id Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 and at least two touch allowed,
is there any new games APPS for windows 8 Now ?
any developer's build Games for windows 8 Now ?
id loved to run on my windows 8 now, and showed
everyone that windows 8 can do so much more,...
INDONESIA.

posted by metal id

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634543066632845118 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:17:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634543066632845118 metal id Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8
Clearly the cloud is the route here, and I hope you intend to embrace distributing games and XBOX via a common interface. The will give PC gave developers equal footing with the XBOX gaming distro methods.

We NEED a unified store front for making purchases with STRONG parential control capabilities (better then current XBOX model). I for one, as a parent, am not pleased with the authorization to purchase model.

posted by robert

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634616661847694418 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:36:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634616661847694418 robert Re: Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8 posted by sam

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634626176853693724 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:54:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-756T#c634626176853693724 sam