Do you dream about publishing your own games on a major game console?
Get caught up with the latest Xbox news from Build 2016 and hear about the different ways you can publish your very own game on Windows 10 and Xbox One. Use your own Xbox One console for development or apply for a dev kit via ID@Xbox. Harness the power of DirectX 12 and use a variety of tools to build your own games!
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- PPTX: https://wakeupandcode.com/public_downloads/XboxOne-DevModeUWP.pptx
- Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/xbox-one-dev-mode
Useful Links:
- Things to Know: https://news.xbox.com/2016/03/30/xbox-at-build-2016/
- Xbox One Dev Mode Activation: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/apps/developer-mode-activation-app-faq
- UWP on Xbox One: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/index
- Getting Started: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/getting-started
- VS2015 Update 2: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update2-vs.aspx
- Windows 10 Insider Program: https://insider.windows.com/
- Windows 10 Preview SDK (log in, scroll down): https://insider.windows.com/Home/Index
- Windows Dev Center: http://dev.windows.com
- Construct 2: http://scirra.com
- Unity: http://unity3d.com
- Setting Up Dev Mode: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/development-environment-setup
- ID@Xbox: http://xbox.com/id
- Tweet about getting started: https://twitter.com/id_xbox/status/715218215945670656
- Tweet about UWP games: https://twitter.com/id_xbox/status/715574259205033984
- Tweet about Live features: https://twitter.com/ID_Xbox/status/716785692487995392
Additional Links:
- Xbox Dev Mode Overview: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Level-Up/Episode-18-Xbox-Dev-Kit-Mode
- Building UWP Apps for Xbox Build Talk: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B883
- UWP on Xbox Docs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/index
- Designing for TV: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/input-and-devices/designing-for-tv
- Samples and TVJS: https://github.com/Microsoft/TVHelpers
- UWP Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/windowsapps/en-us/home?forum=wpdevelop
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Does this mean indie games from the Xbox 360 will be able to become backwards compatible? If not, would they be able to become upgraded and sold on the Xbox One store?
Hi Matthew, I haven’t seen any announcements around making XBLIG automatically available on Xbox One. The MonoGame team has been able to successfully run MonoGame on Xbox One, so XNA/XBLIG developers could possibly bring their games to Xbox One with UWP with MonoGame. To ask the community, check out the Facebook groups MonoGame Indie Devs and Xbox One Indie Devs.
Would it be possible to build utilities for games by other vendors? For instance, to build an app to analyze stats for a league in Nba 2k17? I.e. who the leading scorer is, etc.
Not that I know of. I am not aware of any public APIs available to hook into AAA games such as NBA 2k17.