XNA Creators Club - Community Spotlight List

Community Spotlight: School's In

Getting a Degree in Videogames? We ask students how their educational journeys lead them to game development.

Community Spotlight: Hot Potato Online

The guys from Potato Entertainment discuss their game, and donating all their proceeds to Child's Play charity.

Community Spotlight: Yo-Ho Kablammo!

Yo-Ho Kablammo explodes into Xbox LIVE Summer of Arcade!

Community Spotlight: Rocket Riot

Another XNA Game Studio-born title emerges on Xbox LIVE Arcade!

Community Spotlight: Kodu Game Lab

What goes into making a pick-up-and-create toolset?

Community Spotlight: Blazing Birds and David Flook!

We chat with David Flook and his Xbox LIVE Arcade game Blazing Birds!

Community Spotlight: Dishwasher & James Silva!

We chat with James Silva about his work using XNA Game Studio!

Community Spotlight: Word Soup

We sat down with the guys behind Word Soup at our XBL Community Games Launch Party.

CarneyVale:Showtime

We chat with Dream-Build-Play winner Team Gambit about their Xbox LIVE Community Game, CarneyVale Showtime!

Community Spotlight: Brothers in Bloc

Nick and Matthew Gravelyn Create Xbox® LIVE Community Games Puzzler, Bloc!

Community Spotlight: First! Tim Labonne

Tim LaBonne was our very first Creator to see his game make it through Peer Review and appear on the Xbox LIVE Community Games channel! We talk with him about what it took to get there.

Community Spotlight: Colosseum

Meet the team at Shortfuse Games and find out what went into creating the Xbox LIVE Community Game - Colosseum!

Community Spotlight: Peer Review

Learn more about Peer Review from the expert that helped build it!

Making Schizoid with XNA Game Studio

Schizoid, now available on Xbox LIVE Arcade, is a 2D action game that features incredible two-player co-op play. It’s also the first Xbox LIVE Arcade title to be created in XNA Game Studio. We talk with Torpex Games, the makers of Schizoid, about their experience with XNA Game Studio, and tips and tricks they learned while making their blockbuster hit.

Interview with Albert Ho, XNA Community Team

Want to know more about making games and making money with Xbox LIVE Community Games? We sit down with Albert Ho, Group Program Manager on the XNA Community Team, and get right down to the details about the Xbox LIVE Community Games opportunity launching later this year.

Imagine Cup 2008 and XNA: Mother Gaia Studio

Introducing Mother Gaia Studio from Brazil, the first-place finishers in the 2008 Imagine Cup for Game Development, and their winning game, City Rain, created in XNA Game Studio. We chat with Mother Gaia Studio about creating their game in XNA Game Studio, and about the challenges and triumphs they had in this year's Imagine Cup.

From Start to Finish: Building an XNA Game Studio Game

Dan Waters takes you on a journey of building his GuitarrMatey game, guiding you through the history of how he designed the game, plus step by step instruction on creating the game, including how to use the Softimage XSI|Mod tool to design your own 3D models.

XNA Team Member Spotlight: Michael Klucher

We interview Michael Klucher, one of the Program Managers on the XNA Community Game Platform team. Michael offers many interesting insights, including his connection to an animated TV show!

Interview with James Silva

Since James was announced as the co-winner of the 2007 Dream-Build-Play contest, he has become a bit of a cause celebre among independent game developers, living the dream (and the realities) of being an Xbox LIVE Arcade game developer. We decided to interrogate, er, interview James and learn what makes him tick, and we now offer his answers for your entertainment!