Newsletter Week 2: How to develop for consoles?

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Last week, we had been doing a decent amount of research about how to get into developing games for consoles. Based on the information we got from both console holders and industry professionals’ first hand experience, we found out that Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) would be the feasible way for Crescendo Encore to approach the ideal goal SmileGate set for the project, that is to have a DoReMi Pets type game be playable on console. In week 2, SmileGate decided to have Team Crescendo Encore develop a music/rhythm game for XBLIG targeting family and kids.
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Newsletter Week 1: Get started

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Project Crescendo Encore is a SmileGate sponsored ETC project located at the ETC Silicon Valley campus. We are very glad to name ourselves after the previous ETC team who successfully created the project Crescendo in 2011 Fall semester. Crescendo Encore currently consists of five students:

Qiaosi Chen – Programmer
Hyemi Do – 2D/UI artist
Prashanth KP – Programmer
Paulwei Wang – Co-producer, Hardware engineer
Chong Zhang – Co-producer
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