Make Games with Web Development Skills that play anywhere including your Xbox!  | The Dev Talk Show
Channel: The Dev Talk Show
Date: 04/03/2021

Tonight we will learn how you can use your web development skills to make your first game with the Phaser framework.  There are many game engines, frameworks, and tools to develop games in all kinds of languages for all kinds of platforms.  The cool part is that you can play your creations on your very own Xbox One or Xbox Series console right now.

Phaser Framework for web based games: https://phaser.io/

Visual Studio Code Live Server Plug-In to make game creation easier: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer

^^^ Everything above ^^^ works fine on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and you could even make web based games on a Chromebook using online IDE environments.  The rest is about making this work on your Xbox console.

Video: Can You Create Xamarin.Forms Apps For Your Xbox Series X?! - https://youtu.be/poGr6xR8BHU 
(Excellent walkthrough of putting your retail Xbox One/Series console into Dev Mode and connecting to it with VS 2019)

GitHub Repo for Tonight's Code: https://github.com/SpaceShot/UwpJs
(Must use VS 2017 or 2015 to get UWP JavaScript project support)

Download VS 2017 Community here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/
(You will need either a VS Subscription or sign up for the FREE Dev Essentials offering to access this download.  The whole point of this is you have nothing more to pay for besides your existing console and Windows PC).

You DO NOT NEED to use the older VS 2017 to create UWP apps for Xbox with C++ And C# or use the Xamarin support.  This is just for the UWP JavaScript support.

What will the future hold for independent development on Xbox?  It's not clear now, but hopefully we'll see more in this space in the future.