13 Facts About Microsoft XNA

Microsoft XNA is a freeware set of tools with a managed runtime environment that Microsoft developed to facilitate video game development.

The Microsoft XNA toolset was announced on March 24, 2004, at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California.

NET analog to Microsoft XNA's better known game development system, DirectX, but it is aimed at developers primarily interested in writing lightweight games.

Since Microsoft XNA games are written for the runtime, they can run on any platform that supports the Microsoft XNA Framework with minimal or no modification.

The Microsoft XNA Framework provides support for both 2D and 3D game creation and allows use of the Xbox 360 controllers and vibrations.

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Microsoft XNA Build is a set of game asset pipeline management tools, which help by defining, maintaining, debugging, and optimizing the game asset pipeline of individual game development efforts.

Microsoft XNA Build helps identify the pipeline dependencies, and provides API access to enable further processing of the dependency data.

Microsoft XNA Game Studio is a programming environment for development of games.

Microsoft XNA Framework Content Pipeline is a set of tools that allows Visual Studio and Microsoft XNA Studio to act "as the key design point around organizing and consuming 3D content".

Microsoft XNA originally planned to take an additional percentage of revenue if they provided additional marketing for a game, but this policy was rescinded in March 2009, leaving the flat rate intact regardless of promotion.

Microsoft XNA distributed a free year premium App Hub subscription for educational establishments through their DreamSpark program and MSDNAA.

Microsoft XNA was formed to port Microsoft XNA to the open source and cross-platform Mono framework.

Project called ANX is available which implements its own version of Microsoft XNA using the SharpDX stack; support for Linux, macOS and the PlayStation Vita is in progress as well.