Serious Sunday: Xbox Live Creators Program - Another step toward the end of the "Walled Garden"
4This week on Serious Sunday, Luke looks at the Xbox Live Creators Program, another new development in the trend of once jealously guarded distribution platforms opening up their systems to free run of any developer with a minimum registration fee. He recaps the usual bullet points about the risks of the open distribution platform, but also looks at how the XBL Creators Program differentiates itself, and what it means for the game market on the whole going into the future, with PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices being easier now than ever to release projects on.
Watch Serious Sunday: Nintendo for Indies - Open platform development, Switch dev kits at $450: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGccTPd3BWQ
Watch Serious Sunday: Sunsetting Steam Greenlight - Valve's move towrd direct distribution & its dangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-0clHs1r0
Watch Serious Sunday: The dawn of Steam Direct - The end of Greenlight, and how this will affect Steam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxpVQDKnv0
Watch more Serious Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLacwSBKCWdF_Falvwmu9szmMc_Z7rXN2y
Serious Sunday is a freeform, sometimes roundtable discussion between the members of Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.
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