Microsoft’s XNA has persevered and become popular with hobbyist game developers on the Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. While I haven’t really fooled around with it much, I’ve always felt it would be nice to be able to develop XNA games that ran on the iPhone.
Apple has spoken out against cross-platform development, but it appears that the MonoTouch project bringing C# to iOS development has persevered, and a new project known as XNATouch has been created for MonoTouch developers. This has brought the ability to program 2D games using C# and XNA to the iPhone with 3D apparently in the works. There is also a similar project for Android, so theoretically games would run on the iPhone, Android (through another open source project), and Microsoft platforms including the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.
You can find the project here: XNATouch at Codeplex
The project is still in active development, and if you’re a hardcore XNA fan you will want to check it out.
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