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.
Community web site for XNA Game Studio Express |
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Starting point for instructions on how to install XNA Game Studio Express |
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Site containing free versions of many Microsoft tools. Also provides free access to XNA Creators Club online. |
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Developer-oriented XNA news |
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XNA tutorials, see also links page for XNA links |
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GIMP is an open source bitmap image editor (can be used to create/edit sprites) |
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SlugForge project management web site (similar to SourceForge) |
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Website for the Subversion configuration management tool |
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A book describing how to use Subversion |