Xbox One Will Have an ‘Independent Creator Program’

<p>Microsoft seems to have some plan in store to get indie developers on board with the Xbox One in the form of an &&num;8216&semi;independent creator program&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Don Mattrick&comma; the head guy in charge of the Xbox right now&comma; revealed to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;microsoft-vows-to-support-indie-developers-on-xbox-one-510129167">Kotaku<&sol;a> that they want to support indie devs and are going to give them the proper tools to work with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re going to have an independent creator program&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re going to sponsor it&period; We’re going to give people tools&period; We’re going to give more information&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; as Microsoft seems to be doing lately&comma; they won&&num;8217&semi;t elaborate on the matter until later&period; Kotaku noted that Mattrick also neglected to bring up the topic of self-publishing&comma; something that the Xbox One was confirmed to not support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;That is something we think—I think—is important&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said regarding their indie program&period; &&num;8220&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s how I started in the industry&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s no way we&&num;8217&semi;re going to build a box that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t support that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mattrick brought up Mojang&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Minecraft<&sol;em> as an example of an indie title that saw a huge amount of success on the Xbox 360&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;