Microsoft bets with the Xbox Live Creators Program to bring Universal Applications to Xbox One

One of the advantages offered by universal applications is the possibility of reaching a greater number of customers thanks to the possibility of sending the same application to different platforms. It is about making the Windows ecosystem more attractive to developers who with less effort can have their application on mobile phones, desktop computers or on Xbox One.

And referring to the latter from Microsoft they have created a program that under the name of Xbox Live Creators Program allows developers to carry their games in the form of a Universal Application (UWP) to the console of those in Redmond.An announcement made at the Game Developers Conference 2017 in San Francisco.

Thanks to the Xbox Live Creators Program, interested developers are offered a set of tools that allow them to access Xbox Live loginand the ability to add different social options that are part of your games before they are published side by side on Windows 10 and Xbox One.

In this way, a game in the form of a Universal application could reach both the huge park of desktop computers with Windows 10 but also to the network of Xbox One consoles on the market and in the future to Project Scorpio, as everything indicates that it would continue to benefit from this system.

To take advantage of the possibilities of Xbox Live, the use of the Xbox Live Creators SDK will be facilitated.Once the application is created, it will have a place and will be accessible from a new section of Creators games in the Store This new system will be parallel to the existing one based on ID@ Xbox which receives the most help from Microsoft in the form of support.

Yes, there is a requirement that must be met and that is that the developer must be part of the Insider Program and create their application by doing use of platform-compatible game optimization engines including Construct 2, MonoGame, Unity, and Xenko.

• Xbox Live login and profile, including gamertag.
• Status on Xbox Live, our recent games and activities you perform.
• Xbox Live Social: Game Hubs, Clubs, Friends, Game Chat, GameDVR, and Beam Streaming.
• Xbox Live leaderboards and statistics.
• Titles stored and in the cloud.

To enter the program you can access it from this link and you also have to pay a fee that ranges between 20 and 100 dollars and then go through a selection process. There are also forums to consult and ask questions about how to bring your UWP application to Xbox One and a lot of information about it in the Official Github.

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