XNA

• The game engine we're most familiar with is the XNA engine.
• One of the nice things about XNA is that it enables the development of code that runs both on a PC and on an XBox. They've got that stuff below the API so you don't have to deal with it.
• One of the problems with XNA is you can't see the low level code.
• They provide an IDE and there is a reasonable sized community so you can get help.
• They say it's both 2D and 3D, but I've not really seen much implemented in 3D (aside from a couple of cool space games from CMT 3325 students).
• Applications are programmed in C#.