XNA Creators Club Game Launcher (free)

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How??? — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:32:54 GMT

Where in the Xbox Live Marketplace can i actually find this? Im in the U.K.

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AlcesAlces — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:03:56 GMT

No love for Australia, yet again. Why do you hate us Microsoft?

Has anyone tried pulling these down off a false account yet?

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snaketide — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:26:17 GMT

Why no release in Australia? One more non-Australian release, and I'm out. No PS3, no Wii, just out. Microsoft has ruined gaming for me.

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AriesDog — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:38:13 GMT

Just to clear up the rampant misinformation here - the XNA Creator Club launcher is FREE. (If it isn't listed as free, look for the right one.) Under the GAMES BLADE (y'know, the green one) there's the usual All Games, Arcade, Demos and a new one - XNA Creators Club. Go there. Hit the yellow 'Y' button as indicated to see what games you can download. These are basically BETA TEST DEMOS. Like all demos, they are free, but not the complete game. You CAN NOT rate them. That's for students and members who've joined the full XNA program. Sometime in the future, these will come to the Xbox Live Marketplace. The point of all of this let us, the public, see the same tech demos that developers are seeing at the Game Developers conference. Demonstrations of games that students and small indie game makers did using the FREE XNA tools program. **I think that was pretty cool of Microsoft to share with us** Sidenote: Jelly Car is pure joy.

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Steven — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:47:16 GMT

So is this ever going to come to Australia?

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Malicore IV — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:35:00 GMT

I'm going to check some of them out, but I hope that XNA on the 360 gets into full gear this year. It's been way to slow.

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Strud — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:03:11 GMT

As stated in the videos on Xbox.com's GDC page, these games are just a preview of the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher. The full service doesn't launch until later in the year. The games will likely be non-trial and free for everyone to download at that time.

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StormRaging — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:19:14 GMT

everytime I try to play Culture it sits at a black screen and then drops me back to the dashboard

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PhlivoSong — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:02:29 GMT

Did installing the launcher mess up anyone elses console? It lets out a high pitched noise via my speakers and then the screen turns into a sort of checkboard and then freezes up. It will do it during start up, at the dashboard, and while playing Dishwasher. I took off my hard drive and everything seems fine now so I have to assume it was the install of the XNA launcher. Yikes. How do I uninstall it?

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Computerdude103 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:51:01 GMT

College students can now get the membership free for a year anyways. This is definitely a cool addition, I just wish Microsoft had put up a better explanation of how it works on their site to let people know the full service hasn't started yet, etc....

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Qkthr — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:57:12 GMT

Give people something free, and they still find something to *** about.

Just like me... except because I'm in Australia... I get nothing. Why?

We never get any explanations about why us poor foreigners in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan miss out.

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Toilet Jerk — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:55:35 GMT

I'm a bit lost as to why these trials will only last a few days...when they aren't even full games to begin with.

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SidearmS — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:08:25 GMT

Like Deathrace King said, there are TWO launchers. One is the standard XNA launcher, it is about 9 Megs. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS ONE. It will not run any of the trial games, and will dump you to dashboard without letting do anything in the XNA menu. The other is the XNA Launcher GDC Trial. THAT IS THE ONE you want. It is about 7 Megs. This is the one you need to download in order to download the games. They are ALL 17 day trial versions. The only one with "achievement" I saw was Dishwasher. All others are just simple games (for the achivo whores). But in Dishwasher, the "achievement" option is grayed out. Once you download the 7 meg launcher, you can download the others. The 7 meg launcher is the only way to get these games to boot. Of the seven, Dishwasher was the most polished. While I am not big on the game's description (not after last week), the game is very well done. I just got over my "Johnny The Homicidal Mainiac" phase years ago... I liked Proximity HD a lot. But I also like Dice Wars on Wiicade. TriLinea was different, but good different. But TriLinea crashed twice for me (locked up the 360). All other titles booted fine. I actually hated Jellycar because I could not control it for squat, but I can see it's appeal. Physics fun there. Culture was cool, but the weed game is a little buggy. I showered my planet with flowers and I couldn't kill some of the weeds no matter what I did. Rocket Ball has potential, but has the same issues we saw in Monster Madness' gameplay. The player movement was jerky and very twitchy. Little Gamers was meh. To me, it was the most forgettable one, and it borrows heavily from Alien Homminid. Like I told someone today, it is good stuff, but I can't really put in another $50 USD for this, especially since there is no retail version. I already don't like DRM as is, so a game subscriber account doesn't thrill me at all. XBox 360 - Fix the business model somewhat, and this can work.

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anon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:06:12 GMT

Australia and NZ miss out again, thats different.

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Joergen8 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:54:53 GMT

Just tried Jelly Car and Diswasher.. SUPERB stuff :D Its the indie grass root developers who come up with the best ideas and XNA makes sure they have a way to create them. Well done!

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jcxbox23 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:52:45 GMT

hey just a little heads up to people, it seems to be a little buggy at first. My section of XNA creators club didn't show up in the my games library for awhile. But I must say the jelly car game is quite addicting and fun. Nice job MS