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[gilesgoat]

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An unexpected sign in error has occoured. Error Code : 80004005. You can attempt signing in with the retail guide as a work around.

And I still have NO IDEA what this "retail guide" is ...

The Retail guide is just the Home screen on the devkit - Remote control into it through the manager and then select Launch Home - you can then try to sign in there.

ONE thing I solved, apparently I could not log-in becuase I was using "the wrong sandboxes", they were still the ones used years ago to develop T4K, created by Atari and they probably don't exist any more.

I had to find out where I wrote down TOO LONG time ago the names of the sandboxes I was using.

Now if only I could understand what is this Xbox Provisioned Partner Center and how you get it ...

[Rhythm]

Now if only I could understand what is this Xbox Provisioned Partner Center and how you get it ...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming ... r-partners

partner.microsoft.com/dashboard should apparently be somewhere to start from?

[gilesgoat]

Now if only I could understand what is this Xbox Provisioned Partner Center and how you get it ...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming ... r-partners

partner.microsoft.com/dashboard should apparently be somewhere to start from?

Except that going there DOES NOT LOOK AT ALL how they show in that page ...

Have you tried the link ?

It's totally different there's NO " Navigate to Windows & Xbox > Overview. The "Overview" page appears. " there is NO such a thing, it's all empty !

[edit] - after much fanculonism I reached a point where it was telling me "I am signing in using a personal account I must set up a company account before to proceed" ..

Then I got some point it started to ask me "How I want to become MS Partner" one of the choices was "As a developer" ..

But before to click on anything I want to understand what the heck I am going into ...

[gilesgoat]

After some email with M$ ( that incredibly replies ) and some other talks to somene else .. well .. it is COMPLICATED ..

- it really is a complex story
- it's a PAIN IN THE ARSE
- I may have someone else looking into
- I still don't understand quite a shit

Anyway to me looks "lot more complex than what it'd need to be" .. I think it's a case of "again things made 1000 times more complex than what they really would need to be" ..

We .. have "totally lost" "the simplicity war" .. people are no longer/willing to do "simpler things"

[edit] - and no, until "someone at MS flips the magic button that say 'yes you can' there's absolutely NOTHING you can do by yourself" .. the resources are locked and you are locked out ...

[Markie]

So, I sense things are getting close, that said, now we have to wait for the publisher, hmmm ...

[gilesgoat]

So, I sense things are getting close, that said, now we have to wait for the publisher, hmmm ...

.. I am at the point I am doing a new "scoretables" UI ... .. ..

[gilesgoat]

For those that don't read ( and you SHOULD ) Jeff's Twitter stream we are "at the final touches" well kinda, we are sorting out "all the remaining ui shit" which .. is time consuming .. is incredible every time I say "this time we'll do it even SIMPLER/better" it still is quite a PAIN to be done/tested and it never comes out "that simple"..

Now I am at the stage "score tables/online scores/testing/cases/etc." .. ah yes and the achivements and defining all the bits and pieces neede and sort out some "animations" .. there's till quite some to do that is not exactly "game" but it's part of "the whole package of things".

Meanwhile still a bit into "oh dear why you make things so crap" with MS .. after talking to someone that talked to someone that talked to someone else that put me in touch in a 3 zoom call with someone across the ocean and someone on a train somewhere else we got the conclusion that "nobody remembers how it was done" but some had access to something and we got probably something done.

I said "probably" because before to install the Nth ( newer ) version of SDK that could potentially fuck up things and put me in a state of despair for days trying to fix it all I want to finish the bits I am working on now and do antoher "megabackup" .. .. "one disaster at the time" ..

I said, I should not have said it, "it's just a matter of time PROBABLY that M$ won't give you any SW at all unless you have a monthly subscription of something" .. I hope MS wasn't listening ..

"You can't access any of that SW/docs unless you are enabled by someone" .. that first needs to be regi$tered like "something" to get access to $omething to be able to enable to you $ee what you need and download it.

Bah .. "usual crap" .. and I haven't started with FORMS yet .. there's still quite some time before that ..

But yeah game speaking .. "is AWESOME" .. but I cannot tell you a thing .. yet ..

Anyway .. thing are moving GOOD and the stuff is coming out REAL good ..

[Deckard]

Can you even say what platforms its on ?

[Jamesac]

Can you even say what platforms its on ?

That's actually pretty easy to figure out- PC (probably), PS4/5, Xbox One and latest version, Switch (incredibly likely). Just imagine how many forms are involved in three separate consoles!

[Harlequin]

Can you even say what platforms its on ?

That's actually pretty easy to figure out- PC (probably), PS4/5, Xbox One and latest version, Switch (incredibly likely). Just imagine how many forms are involved in three separate consoles!

That list is missing at least one platform Gilesgoat is working on.

[gilesgoat]

Can you even say what platforms its on ?

"All of them" ( except VR ) ..

[mb3018]

Why not VR?

[Jamesac]

Can you even say what platforms its on ?

"All of them" ( except VR ) ..

Well, I guess that means it's an Atari game again, so add the VCS to the list.

[gilesgoat]

Why not VR?

Because I am already working on 6 different platforms and the VR option would require considerabaly more work/testing/adjustments to make it look real good but essentialy "because we been NOT asked to do it NOR paid for it NOR we have sufficient time to make one".

Fact is, we found out, "if you start doing a thing for VR you better start it as VR and then eventually 'downgrade it' to "non VR 3D" .. it's "much easier/natural" this way than the opposite.

A lot of "good things good looking in standard 3D" may give you "bad surprises" when moved into VR.

Said that "it may happen in the future" ( if/when they decide to commission us a VR version ) and/or "when we'll have enough time/resources to continue to work on VR stuff our own".

It will also depend I suppose "on the success of the non-vr version".

We are already in quite "tight schedule" and "totally maxed out" about resources/things/what we can do FOR THE MOMENT.

So "why not" is simply "because we can't really do it now", later maybe, now no.

[mb3018]

Alright thanks Giles, I can't wait to play it.