Guide for Xbox game development?

Here’s what I think you’re looking for:


Has some helpful tips to code and tips and tricks/best practices
Image of helpful tips from the linked site:

This link has some helpful tips and teaches you how to do some cool things with haptic feedback. For example if your driving a car it will trigger haptic feedback(vibration in the xbox controller).

This is a helpful tutorial on how to make radial menus which can be used in console games if you want.

On the other hand of tips and tricks I don’t really know many but here are a few:

  • Make sure the Gui is scaled correctly so when the screen size changes the UI size and position stay how you want it to be ( if you didn’t know.If the Gui size is 0,400,0,100 the position would be 0.5,-200,0.5,-100 ect.)
    (when making the UI size scale correctly across multiple screen sizes always make the size 0.1,0,0.1,0 instead of 0,100,0,100 before editing the size)

helpful UI scaling links:

DevForum Tutorial

  • Bind certain UI with buttons(like A to accept and B to decline/ exit).

  • Make sure all controls are compatible with xbox.

(edit) I recommend having a look at this as well as it lists a lot of tips to making a game worthy of getting featured. Regardless of whether you are planning on getting featured it should be helpful: Xbox Guidelines
It has some helpful tips like:

  • B button is almost always used to close a menu”
  • “Menus do not have multiple close buttons”
  • “Only references Xbox One controls (no references to keyboard, mouse, touch)”
    and other tips and tricks. things that might be helpful.

Side note :I’m pretty sure this is what you use to detect if a player is on xbox:
https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/function/GuiService/IsTenFootInterface

  • A little note for if your disabling core UI:

  • Make sure your thumbnails and UI would be big enough to be seen on the screen. Roblox recommends it to be clearly seen at 10 feet away from the TV.

  • If you have custom controls make sure you transfer it over to xbox controls and when in game tutorials pop up it explains it in xbox terminology.

  • Make sure it follows these guidelines:
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I don’t really know any other tips but I wish you good luck in developing for xbox. :+1: :slightly_smiling_face:

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