Microsoft Approves PC to 360 Level Editors

Posted by x3sphere at August 14, 2007, 3:57 pm


Has Microsoft found a way to keep Epic happy? Possibly, with the Xbox Live Silver Platform. XLSP-certified development studios can deliver content through the game publisher’s servers, allowing for user generated content to be downloaded, as long as it is within the publisher’s guidelines.

Does this mean a developer could build a level editor for PC, then use content created from the editor on Xbox 360? The answer is yes, according Microsoft Software Design Engineer Zsolt Mathe.

Even though nobody has done that, I would highly recommend that.

Sounds like great news for Unreal Tournament 3. One of the hold ups on its release was due to Microsoft’s user-generated content restrictions. It seems that, with XLSP, this won’t be as much of an issue anymore.

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Comments

Cheezeball99 says:

That's pretty awesome news- this can open up a whole world of opportunities for several games that never thought it possible.

August 14, 2007, 3:17 pm
Junit says:

Too bad this wont be happening with gears:/ btw cheeze you gonna plug the usb mouse and keyboard in for UT3 ?

August 14, 2007, 3:31 pm
Cheezeball99 says:

Are you going to be able to do that!? That'd officially bridge the gap between PC and Console gamers, I didn't know you could do that- I TOTALLY will if you can!

August 14, 2007, 4:11 pm
Junit says:

yeah , and I think you can choose to play with keyboard + mouse users or controller users ,even mix them xD

August 14, 2007, 5:52 pm
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