It wasn’t too long ago that Microsoft released an update that turned every Xbox One into a software development kit. Now, hobbyist developers will have a platform for publishing their wares on the console. It’s called the Xbox Live Creator’s Program.
“With the Xbox Live Creators Program, you can ship your [Universal Windows Platform] game on Xbox One, Windows 10 PC or simultaneously on both platforms,” Microsoft’s Andrew Parsons wrote in a post on the Windows Developer blog. More than that, these self-made games won’t exist in main area of the game store on Xbox.
So, essentially, this is replicating what Microsoft did with self-published indies on the Xbox 360: relegating them to a cordoned off section within the store and limiting their visibility.
For now, the program is limited to a select group of developer Insiders. That will change and “soon,” the company says, with more devs expected to get access.
Considering that common game design toolsets like MonoGame and Unity have UWP support built in, it might not be long before some of these potentially bizarre games start showing up.
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