Microsoft's XNA Creators Club has recently released the initial details of its Xbox LIVE Community Games service which allows members of the Xbox community with an XNA Creators club Premium subscription to create custom game titles and sell them for Microsoft Points on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
As a Premium member in the XNA Creators Club, you’ll be able to submit any complete Xbox 360 game you’ve created in XNA Game Studio to the Creators Club community at http://creators.xna.com, for peer review. Other Premium Creators will check to make sure your game is safe to play. If it is, you’ll set a price point – between 200 and 800 Points – that people will pay to download your game.
Once the game is reviewed and the price point set, you’re done. The game is listed on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and you’ll get a check every quarter, for up to 70% of the game’s total revenue in your own currency. Depending on your game’s success, you may even have your game advertised on Xbox 360 and other Microsoft online properties.
Just imagine - your game in the hands of millions of Xbox 360 gamers around the world: that’s the power of Community Games.
Microsoft plans to officially release the service to the XNA Creators Club at a point later in 2008; until then, coders can be programming their games in anticipation of the launch of the program.
As a Premium member in the XNA Creators Club, you’ll be able to submit any complete Xbox 360 game you’ve created in XNA Game Studio to the Creators Club community at http://creators.xna.com, for peer review. Other Premium Creators will check to make sure your game is safe to play. If it is, you’ll set a price point – between 200 and 800 Points – that people will pay to download your game.
Once the game is reviewed and the price point set, you’re done. The game is listed on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and you’ll get a check every quarter, for up to 70% of the game’s total revenue in your own currency. Depending on your game’s success, you may even have your game advertised on Xbox 360 and other Microsoft online properties.
Just imagine - your game in the hands of millions of Xbox 360 gamers around the world: that’s the power of Community Games.
Microsoft plans to officially release the service to the XNA Creators Club at a point later in 2008; until then, coders can be programming their games in anticipation of the launch of the program.