NEWS - Sunday, June 20, 2004
New Xbox Developer Tools From Virtools
In response to the game market’s evolution and to fulfill Xbox game artists’ technical and creative development needs, Virtools enlarges its offer to provide greater ease and flexibility through it’s latest addition: the Virtools Xbox Kit. The Virtools Xbox Kit is an add-on library of building blocks, an editor, SDK and Xbox Players geared to Xbox specifications. Especially created to allow users to develop a game for the Xbox, the new Xbox Exporter interface in Virtools Dev manages the communication with the Xbox console. The Virtools Xbox Kit is an advanced development tool that enables developers to focus on content and game play. Developers take advantage of the Virtools’ unique and innovating graphical programming process to create rich stunning interactivity. The Virtools Xbox Kit adds 19 new building blocks in Virtools Dev. These new behaviors enable handling game pads, memory units, saving or loading games using the Virtools schematic view. As such, it supports almost all of Dev’s features and building blocks, and it works with Dev’s other add-on packs. Thanks to its features, the Virtools Xbox Kit facilitates prototyping as well as the robust development needed for full-scale applications on Xbox. While significantly reducing production costs and overall risks the Virtools Xbox Kit encompasses very useful Xbox-specific features :Source: http://www.gameinfowire.com
