I’m trying to compile a list and archive of FRC related Web and Video games that teams or individuals have created.
I’ve seen teams bring games they have made to show off in their pit, or bring to outreach events. Sometimes it’s little quiz games, sometimes its pong with FRC game pieces, etc. Is there a list out there of the games that teams have made and somewhere to view them? If not, can teams or people with games DM me or post links to them here on this thread?
Also understandably many games might be made in unity, XNA (old C# framework), unreal, or various engines so if anything special is required can you include notes about that in your DM as well!
Failure to include xRC on your list will result in your being sentenced to join the xRC league and play using only the weakest robots. (It’s at the bottom of the linked page.)
360 had the Indie Marketplace and supported XNA development straight to the Xbox. My high school had an Xbox360 programming class which eventually just became C# programming (Now using unity). It was really cool being able to show off your work on a friends Xbox!
Anyone could make a game for 360, then post it to the indie marketplace after some basic approvals by Microsoft at the time. But more than likely they just deployed this directly onto a console they owned and it wasn’t shared en masse like a “real game”. I don’t know, because i wasn’t part of that. I know I never put any of my projects on the marketplace, just local demos of my classwork.
I remember during Power Up (not to be confused with Charged Up) some teams had arcade cabinet type displays in their pits, with a simple game or two. Wish I could remember which teams now.
As far as I can tell, it did get released onto the store based on the developer’s Facebook page. I can’t seem to find it now, though. Either I can’t search the old Xbox 360 store on the current site or it’s been taken down for some reason. (licensing issues?)
it looks like it was on the Indie Marketplace but that whole thing folded many many years ago when the Xbox Live for 360 was shut down. Good find on the developer page, and it looks like their website is down as well.
After a quick google search I found a list that has a .rar that contains Catalyst 2012, I think. I’m pretty sure you’ll have to mod your 360 to actually play it, but I’m willing to bet someone with more piracy knowledge than me can figure it out.
If it’s XNA I’m wondering if the source is out there and if it can be converted to a windows exe. I have done that with my old XNA projects previously. Again XNA (many Xbox 360 games used this at the time) was a Microsoft C# development engine that worked on Xbox 360 but it also worked for straight to PC games. There are slight changes for how inputs are grabbed but the majority of the code stays the same.
