Getting Started
You do not need to turn anything in for this assignment, but it is
fundamental to the rest of the class. Don't put it off!
- If you are working from home:
- Get an academic creator's club membership.
- Go to the website
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/dd861349.aspx.
- Select US / CA / San Francisco / University of San Francisco
- Log in
- Get a Trial Membership to XNA creators club -- this should give
you a code -- write it down!
- You will need an Xbox live account. (gold or silver is OK). You
can either use an existing account, or create a new (silver, since
it's free) one. (You may want to create a new account, even if you
already have one, since each time you want to deploy on a different
360, you will need to redownload your profile, which takes some
time if you already have a fair number of saves on your current
profile. However, it is easier to only deal with one profile /
windows live account / etc.)
- The process is explained faily well here:
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/create_detail.
- Create very simple demo (on the order of what we did on the first
day) and test it running on a 360