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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Overview of XNA Creators Club |
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XNA Game Studio Express and Visual C# 2008 downloads page |
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Site containing free versions of many Microsoft tools, including Visual Studio Professional 2008. |
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XACT (audio tool) documentation from Microsoft |
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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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Blender is an open source 3D model and animation editor (can be used to create/edit 3D game models) |
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StarUML is an open source UML editing tool (can be used to create UML structure diagrams) |
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NVIDIA FX Composer 2.5 is a shader authoring tool that supports HLSL (and other shader languages) |
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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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TortoiseSVN is a file system extension that provides common Subversion operations within the file browser of Windows |
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A book describing how to use Subversion |
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FL Studio is a commercial music composition and remixing system, with a free demo version |
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Audacity is a free, open source system for recording and editing sounds (Win, Mac, Linux) |
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New Grounds features music tracks licensed using a Creative Commons license, along with an extensive user rating system (use of tracks in your games may be OK, see license details) |
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Jamendo features music tracks licensed using a Creative Commons license (use of tracks in your games may be OK, see license details) |