Prepare for Icon Attack!

I've been playing with the new XNA Express stuff which lets you write games using XNA. Great fun. I'm presently creating a little 2D shooting game which is provisionally titled "Icon Attack", where you fly "My Computer" into battle against massed hordes of Windows Icons, running in fear from the "Recycle Bin of Doom".

I've just got the first bit working, which is the moving icon starfield that will provide the backdrop. I'll keep you posted (quite literally) about how the development goes. Eventually I'll put the source up for you to marvel at.....

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[What have you done!?]

So will programs written using XNA actually run on the xbox360 itself. Or is it all on an emulator?

[Rob]

Now, that's the thing. At the moment XNA Express only works for the PC. But later on this year a version which drives the XBOX 360 will be released. So then we can run the games on the real hardware. Which will be so cool.