Thoughts on using Monkey for a XNA project again
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| A while a go I wrote an article saying that I couldn't honestly recommend using Monkey for an XNA project because of a series of listed problems. I mentioned that I imagine they will be fixed eventually and this has been the case! So, it was only fair that I revisited the problems I had and wrote an updated article. http://chrismingay.co.uk/blog/2012/04/using-monkey-for-a-xna-xbox-project-revisit/ |
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| Hey raz, good article and great game you have there by the way. I was wondering about the limitation of Xbox indie games. For example, is it possible for an indie game to support online multiplayer mode through the internet? |
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| Thanks Aman :) If coded directly in C#/XNA, yes it's possible to do online multiplayer. However via a Monkey game it is not currently possible. As for other limitations.. Package size is limited to 500Mb Can't use additional dlls (for example, ideally I wanted to play Music Modules with bass.dll, but it's not possible). Can't upload content (e.g. level sharing) There is a kind of high score system, but it's very much a hack and not official (I don't know the details, but I think it kind of exploits the player matchmaking to send information between random people). No achievements (yet! rumour has it, this might change) |
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| Thanks. Do you mind me asking why didn't you port Ninjah to Desktop platforms? |
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| I've basically got a PC version of the game there too and with a few edits it'd be ready except for a music issue. I licensed the music and I am worried about releasing it for PC because XNA doesn't encrypt the music files at all (so basically there are 5 WMA files just sitting there with the executable). I guess I could speak with the artists who made the music to check if this is ok, but I haven't yet. |
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