XNA Game Development Diary - how hard is it to make money?

With the world in woe I thought I'd build a game to sell on Xbox Live Community Games. That means that 17million people around the world could purchase the game via their Xbox and I could make some money! I knew XNA would make things easy for me on the coding front, and of course it is free along with the Visual C# Express Edition you need as a baseline to build games for Windows, Xbox and Zune. What I didn't anticipate was the trouble I would have making my own graphics for the game. Although I can draw and paint a bit I'm no great artist and trying to create graphics of the quality I'm used to in my game turned out to be very hard. Very very hard in fact. So here's the story - so far.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• XNA
• Platform Game
• UKDPE
• Xbox
• Make Money

[NemoKradXNA]

WoW! How cool are those templates!

Game assets are always a nightmare.

Nice work, is that the legendary shed you are filming in there??

[ukdpe]

hi matey!

Yes indeed, the shed acheives fame :-)

Still brushing up on the graphics - need another XNA CC memeber to sign off....Got a membership yet?

[icontron]

I live in USA , cool Accent,cool video, I'm new at this game making stuff and i want to make a killer 1st game ,but i don't know shit about game making, any ideas how to start?

[23piz23mitch]

@repoman256 yap

[repoman256]

This sounds like a BBC special.

[MarkGamesDevelopment]

I like your voice, sounds like a tv voice over

[Cinema4DGuru]

But remember: The Express Version is only for not-commercial projects. That means, that you aren't allowed to sell a game, created with the Express Version of Visual Studio.

[12YardApes]

lol this is retarted. hes basically publishing the starter kit game it does not by any means only take 2 days to program a game then a few days to change the graphics. ive been making a game and ive been working on it for a couple months. maybe not every day but still a couple months and im not that close to finishing.

[steamednotfried]

I like you, you are a proper person.

[alex3638]

Hello, interesting video. Have you tried bee4biz (Google it) they actually pay a lot more and convert better I now earn like 12 times more. You get paid for locking content.

[VideoShow416]

Thank you for this.