Edge:We speak to the director of Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program to find out when and how indies can release their games on Xbox One.
Today, during the Guerrilla Collective show, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla provided some insight about Microsoft's plans for indie developers and next-gen.
This is critical in getting as many games as possible despite what some say about indie devs. The more the merrier.
During a panel at PDXCon 2019, Microsoft senior director of ID Productions Chris Charla talked about Xbox Game Pass and how games are selected for it.
"Just yesterday Paraxox Interactive announced Crusader Kings III, mentioning that it’ll be on Xbox Game Pass for PC on day one when it releases in 2020"
Nice, not bad for a service that doesn't support the developer.
I just dl and tried Dead Cells and it's seriously some of the best fun I've had with a game.
Tried this service on the PC... unfortunately the dam app was always giving error when starting to download a game.
Never had problems with other PC game launchers (Steam, Epic, Uplay, etc).
Thats obvious. Isnt that what a rental service is. I used to rent movies all the time i never would of bought or seen. Duh
really enjoyed hellblade and Blair witch stories. I never tried hell blade when it was on ps4 mainly due to not being sold on it, but trying it for free + my gold subscription well worth it, amazing game. Blair witch was also a pleasant surprise with a pretty good story.
ID@Xbox senior director Chris Charla discusses Project Scarlett, along with more general topics such as the impact of subscription services and consolidation on independent developers, and thoughts on the wider game curation debate.
When MS said that every Xbox One would be a development kit, I wonder if people realized they were just talking about Project Spark? Seems to me they were a tad misleading with their messaging earlier on. Why else were there conversations from media outlets about how this would work and how MS would monitor the content?
"Everyone, whether they’re a new developer or a student or a hobbyist is going to be able to use their Xbox One to create content. Even to people who can’t code at all, or have no interest in learning how to code, they’ll be able to use things like Project Spark to make game experiences."
Very misleading and something that will become a talking point in the future for many websites and forums, in which it will be argued that the PS3 has been a development kit since LBP1 released. I often argued on LBPcentral that MM should advertise the game as a development kit, but I wouldn't go so far as making out the hardware itself was a development kit because of one game.
This is the second verification and the language is already shifting message to something approaching the truth. Glad to see it, but I wonder how many people will remember the initial claim? I do:
"In a statement to Kotaku today confirming news that leaked earlier on Game Informer, Xbox's corporate vice president Marc Whitten said that all Xbox Ones will function as development kits, which are usually only available to licensed developers."
http://kotaku.com/microsoft...
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Yeah, I kinda get that sense. But either way, if they're talking about the "white box" then that will make some sense.
Just so long as they filter crap out, then we're good. There was just too many terrible and inappropriate games.
Every unit being a dev kit won't be available at launch. Project Spark will be, or at least close to it.