Those four day XNA games are finished and ready for your downloading pleasure. If you remember, Microsoft's held a four day XNA Challenge at this year's GDC, pushing four development teams to the edge by requiring them to complete a XNA Studio Express game in four days. Sounds hard doesn't it? But all the teams did indeed finish as Microsoft is pleased to announce that all four games are free and available for download to play on your PC right now, if you have XNA Studio Express (it is also free). Be sure to read the game descriptions after the break, check out some screenshots, and download these four day masterpieces.
"DungeonQuest" a 3D action RPG from independent game developers Benjamin Nitschke and Christoph Rienaecker from exDream in Germany. Benjamin and Christoph managed to include two player co-op multiplayer in this expansive dungeon crawler.
"Simian Escape" from independent game developers Jonathon Stevens and Patrick Glanville from the United States, is a 2D run-and-jump game in a prehistoric setting built with the help of Torque X.
"Damage Control" is a game created by hobbyist game developer Josh Butterworth from the United Kingdom with the remote assistance of Maher "m0dus" Al-Samkari and the NeoGAF community. "Damage Control" is a four player multiplayer siege game where you must defend your base from wave after wave of invading aliens.
"AbduX" from graduate student game developer Andre Furtado from Brazil, is a zany action game that turns the tables on the classic humanity vs. aliens formula. This time, the player assumes the role of an alien and pilots a flying saucer through the countryside to abduct unsuspecting earthlings while trying to avoid detection. What's impressive about "AbduX" is how it incorporates voice recognition commands to control functions of the spacecraft.
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3-10-2007 @ 3:55PM
vahdyx said...
So can I play these games on my xbox or just on PC?
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3-10-2007 @ 4:11PM
David said...
There is no 'after the break'. It is just a massively overused statement on this site.
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3-10-2007 @ 5:23PM
Studley said...
vahdyx: The XNA Studio Express software can be downloaded for free at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xna/ and this allows you to build and play games on your PC. The same software can be used to deploy games to your 360, but you'll need a Creators Club licence for that. NB: Not all of the four games above will even function on the 360 - AbduX relies on voice recognition technology which can't be ported to the 360 at the moment.
All four games are an impressive example of how easy it is to use XNA (although you'll need a bit of programming know-how to get something good out of it).
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3-10-2007 @ 6:17PM
elroyhead said...
#2: If you check the front page of the site, you'll notice that often, they don't show the entire content of a post. These types of posts are usually followed by a "continue reading" link, like the one in this image.
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5255/afterthebreakfn4.jpg
Thanks for playing!
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3-10-2007 @ 11:42PM
ShaleX said...
Okay... so DungonQuest is rather impressive for the time taken. At least visually. It looks much like a PS2 game, and considering it took them all of 4 days to get the whole thing running from start to finish, i'm impressed at the work of 2 individuals.
To me, this shows the promise that XNA brings. I foresee some innovative projects comming from it.
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