Det er gratis at konvertere sin Xbox One til en udvikler enhed, dog skal man betale hvad der svarer til omkring 125 kr. for at oprette en Dev Center konto, som giver adgang til alle features. Preview udgaven af Dev Mode kun give adgang til 448 MB af Xbox Ones 8 GB ram, mens den færdige version vil give adgang til alle 1 GB ram som UWP Xbox spil understøtter.
Chris Charla, director hos id@xbox understregede, at fra i dag ville det kun være preview udgaven som man kunne få adgang til, at der ville være uregelmæssigheder med den og at de fleste burde vente til den færdige version:
Now the Xbox isn't just for playing, but also for creating awesome content. We're excited to open the Xbox One to everyone so anyone can get started developing. But it's also a preview and we want to be able to test things still in the preview. You might run into issues now.
Det er nemt at konvertere ens Xbox One til en udvikler enhed. Man skal downloade en Dev Mode activation app fra Xbox Games Store og efter at have startet denne og godkendt betingelserne (hvor man blandt andet får at vide, at man efter at have konverteret ens Xbox One til en udvikler enhed, kan risikere at rende ind i problemer med at køre visse retail spil og at hvis man konvertere tilbage fra Dev Mode, vil ens Xbox One gå tilbage til fabriksindstillingerne og alle ens spil og apps vil blive afinstalleret), får man en kode som man skal indtastes på ens computer når man signer ind på ens Dev Center konto.
Dette er påkrævet, for at gøre ens Xbox One til en udvikler enhed:
Man skal tilslutte sig Windows Insider programmet
Man skal køre Windows 10 på ens PC
Man skal have et netkabel mellem ens PC og ens Xbox One
Man skal installere de nyeste udgaver af Windows 10 og Visual Studio 2015
Man skal have mindst 30 GB fri plads på ens Xbox One
Efter at have konverteret ens Xbox One, skal man parre ens maskine med Visual Studio, der vil opfatte Xbox One maskinen som en Windows 10 enhed og den kan deploye indhold direkte over på maskinen via netkablet.
Chris Charla siger:
When a UWP app is running, it doesn't know it's running on an Xbox - it just knows it's a Windows 10 device. You don't have to do a lot of extra stuff to get a game to run on Xbox One. There is no specific Xbox API for Unity and games doesn’t need any Xbox specific code. You can do some things with screen resolution, but really you don't have to do much. To us it's very important to be able to do that. We really see this as an amazing solution, especially for hobbyists, students, anyone who wants to get started with games.
Dette giver stort set alle med en programmør gemt i maven, mulighed for at udvikle spil og apps til Xbox One. Det kræves dog stadig, at ens kreation skal godkendes af Microsoft og det tager typisk omkring to uger, inden indholdet kan blive publiceret på Xbox Games Store. Hvis spillet bliver godkendt til udgivelse på Xbox One, skal udviklerne stadig indgå en kontrakt med Microsoft omkring platform royalties, som er en helt normal ting for både Microsoft, Nintendo og Sony.
Chris Charla afslutter med at sige:
UWP is really cool for a bunch of reasons. It's cool that you can make this game on Windows and then have it run on an Xbox and ship it on Windows. We think that people are going to be excited to develop a game and experiment in the living room. I'm old-school, and I remember back in the hobbyist days when magazines would list programs out in BASIC and you would type them into your computer. That era created some of the greatest game makers in history. We can hearken back to that now. If you have a PC, you can now make PC games and play them on your Xbox. I think we're going to help jump-start a whole generation of developers.
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