Xbox & Wii Use

The Xbox and Wii have been set up in K-129 and are used outside of class time for students in the computer science program for social use. A poster is next to the television with some of the information below along with a URL for a page with more details. The intent is to inspire innovation and independent study.

Xbox Development

Requires XNA Game and Visual Studio

Only C# is officially supported, we don’t have a course that focuses on C#.

Games can be submitted to the Creators Club community which costs $49 for 4 months or US$99/year, free through DreamSpark and MSDNAA. These accounts allow students to develop games for the Xbox 360, but a premium Xbox Live account is still required to submit the game for the Marketplace.

http://www.xboxlivecommunitygames.org/

Xbox Repair

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/xbox-360-repair.htm

Program for people to bring in broken units?

Wii Development

• Official option

o There is a toolkit released by Nintendo for its Wii games console that provides all of the necessary data that would allow a game creator to write a game for the consoleFinished games can be put on the Wii's Internet shop facility where any Wii user will be able choose and download the games of their choice. The development kit costs around $2000 and developers need to be licensed with and approved by Nintendo.

o http://www.nintendo.com/wii/wiiware

• Free alternative

o games not online

o not language specific

o http://www.wiigamestudio.com/

o http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

• Flash

o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiXV0h8Jec

o We don’t currently have a course that focuses on Flash.

Wii Modification

http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/12/28/the-wii-officially-hacked/