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Get it while its hot XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta
The Microsoft guys recorded this talk so everyone can check it out.
Luke Drumm talks XNA Game Studio at UNSW
Thanks for the link Mykre
An interesting bit of XNA Game Studio news from the XBL launch in India last week.
Talking to us, Robbie and Mohit also spoke to us about developing games for Xbox LIVE Arcade and how they’re working with local game development companies to generate content via XNA.
So now that India has XBL that's a whole new sub continent of developers (yes I know lots of them were using 'other countries' live accounts before.
So lets hear from some of these local game development companies - I want to know what is happening in India with XNA Game Studio. I know little about the Indian game industry so feel free to educate me.
I'm also fascinated by this:
But the strangest announcement of the day seems to be the release of “educational content” on Xbox LIVE! Talking to the press, Microsoft announced that India will be the first country to see the release of education specific learning aids for grades 1-12
Now I have no reason to think that this is related to XNA Game Studio but what a perfect application for the technology. There is little educational content that needs the top end performance of a C++ application so XNA GS is perfect. Of course I can't find anyone at Microsoft to talk to about this (being an MVP does not always help!). So anyone who does know something drop me a line.
For some reason The Zman wasn't invited to fly to Australia for these talks. I'm not sure why - I can drink Fosters as good as the next man ;-)
But seriously... as part of their MIX On Campus series fellow MVP Glenn Wilson and Luke Drumm will be doing introductory talks.
Glenn Wilson is trying to set up some events for Melbourne and Sydney and would love to get in touch with you....
As part of the XNA track at DevTeach Vancouver there is a competition with cash prizes. Check out the details on the website - closing date for entries is November 29th.
Charles announces full schedule
Seems like Dave Mitchell, marketing director for the XNA team, and Charles Cox, whose title is Developer Educator I believe, will be travelling through Europe at the end of November extolling the many virtues of XNA GS 2.0. No indication if this is related to a release date - but its pretty close to the date that 1.0 released last year.
Charles has the full schedule up on his web site now so I will just refer you to that instead of repeating it here.
