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Dark GDK / game for console?

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study
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Posted: 26th Dec 2008 12:36
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do you know any way to make game for other consoles too? ( with Dark GDK )
regards
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SunDawg
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Posted: 26th Dec 2008 23:12
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Dark GDK uses DirectX, which is only for Windows. You can therefore only make games for Windows using it. If you're interested in console development, XNA is cross-platform (Windows/Xbox 360) but much harder to learn and use.


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Zuka
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Posted: 26th Dec 2008 23:18
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Actually, DirectX is what the Xbox 360 runs. Just, the architecture is different, and it'd be stupid to seeing as the 360 has D3D10, and the GDK is only D3D9.
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pirogoth
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That's not quite accurate. The XBox 360 does not run DirectX 10, but runs a highly modified version of DirectX 9. It is not a straight port. Unless TGC wants to port it to the 360, and you are all willing to eat the cost of a developers license for the 360 (to clarify, everyone who intends to develop for the 360 would need a dev license. This is well over ten grand each.), you won't be the GDK for developing 360 games.

That all said, if you DO what to write games for the 360 you should look into XNA. It's not very complicated and there is plenty of material on how to use the system, including a great number of starter projects.

-Piro
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Slayer93
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Actually you can make games for the Xbox360 and sell it on Xbox Live Community Games. You just need to subscribe to the XNA Creators Club which, IIRC is like $100 a year or something. Then you can make games with XNA and C#.


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chanchan
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XNA uses own runtime library if you want to play it in PC

Always learning
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jezza
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Posted: 30th Dec 2008 12:26
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XNA uses DX runtime library I thought?
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jason p sage
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XNA Stinks - It's limited to xbox360 hardware specs - even on PC. Revolt I tell you! Revolt! I prefer the old analog pong game with the paddles...

--Jason


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jasonhtml
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Posted: 31st Dec 2008 19:12 Edited at: 31st Dec 2008 19:14
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forget this post, my information was incorrect...

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