I would agree that achievements are a big deal and will swing a fair few consumers....Are you allowing (or even forcing) the demo system that surrently operates with all XBLA titles?I guess the intention is to have litterally thousands of games on there? once again seperatitng the XBLA from the XNA. Perhaps it's like - would you rent a DVD? or ...

Ok thanks!

So what is to stop professional game companies making games with XNA, and avoiding the whole costly submission / extensive testing processes etc. I can see companies using it as an easy way to get content out there, with their wider skill sets and finances they would be able to crush bedroom projects. Obviously the profits and promotion wont be up ...

thanks shawn...I feel special having a superstar like you help me out! I had seen that, I just wasnt sure it helped me create the array....or do I create the array and then populate it with the data...see I know nothing!although very little can crush my good mood this evening!

the biggest game of the new downloads is 131MB.(by the way you go to XNA in the dash and pres Y to get downloading - thats after downloading the new launcher thing)

I have downloaded the new launcher (on market place) but I cant work out where to get the games, has anyone managed to find them?

Are there any examples of creating an array from a bit map that anyone has seen on the web?heres a rough example of whgat I want to doimagine I am creating spaceinvaders, I have a sheet of enemies 6 wide by 5 high. I create a 1bit bitmap 6X5 (of just black and white data)I then want to read those pixels in to my array so I can set my invaders to ...

I am a ''noob'' most the time I feel like I am banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure out basic things, but it is really rewarding...I tend to spend a couple of hours looking for a sollution to a problem before I ask on here...people have been really helpful. so far I have made one prototype, and am now making my first proper game, ...

Hi there, I am a profesional games designer, I am doing my best to wrestle XNA in to submission, but my lack of an ultra-maths-brain is making this fairly difficult. I have started developing a 2D shooter, but seem to struggle when getting anywhere, art / music / design is all taken care of (or will  be) its just the code where I seem to ...

You are a god among men!I had been messing with the ''list'' thing, but I had been putting it in the wrong place. Because it includes the word ''new'' I had been trying to use it when ever I wanted to make a new object....its all so simple now!the- Thing [] thing; seems so innocuous, I didn't think it actually did anything except link the class ...