Tools

This page provides links to additional information about the tools you will use for your projects. XNA Game Studio Express is a free technology. To use XNA Game Studio Express, you must also install Visual C# Express 2005 (or a full version of Visual Studio).

Teams are strongly advised to use SlugForge, a free, web-based project management web site operated by the UCSC School of Engineering that provides version control (via Subversion), mailing lists, a project web site, and more.

XNA Creators Club Online  

Community web site for XNA Game Studio Express

Getting Started with XNA

Starting point for instructions on how to install XNA Game Studio Express

Microsoft DreamSpark

Site containing free versions of many Microsoft tools. Also provides free access to XNA Creators Club online.

Ziggyware

Developer-oriented XNA news

XNADevelopment.com

XNA tutorials, see also links page for XNA links

GIMP

GIMP is an open source bitmap image editor (can be used to create/edit sprites)

SlugForge

SlugForge project management web site (similar to SourceForge)

Subversion

Website for the Subversion configuration management tool

Subversion Book

A book describing how to use Subversion