Sitting down with Microsoft's Chris Charla to look back on ID@Xbox

ID@Xbox Director, Chris Charla

Microsoft announced that ID@Xbox hit a huge milestone. We take a look back at the program, and forward into the future with ID@Xbox head Chris Charla.

Around the launch of the Xbox One, it felt like Microsoft's approach to independent developers was under attack from every direction. Famously, Jonathan Blow of Braid fame went on the record to say Microsoft treated independent developers "very badly," in an interview with Wired, in a piece that claimed self-publishing indie devs were "fleeing" from Microsoft, specifically to Sony and its PlayStation platform. Fast forward five years, and now, nobody can really claim any of this remains true.

Microsoft just announced that now, over 1,000 independently-published games have hit Xbox One and Windows 10, working with Redmond's ID@Xbox program.

Recently we got the opportunity to speak with ID@Xbox lead Chris Charla to discuss the past, present, and future of independent development at Microsoft and Xbox.

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