What kind of programming environment do you use to write your Windows-based Games?

Question

I've used XNA and Visual Studio 2005 integrated with Flash. I'm curious to see what environments other people use and prefer.

Answer 1

Same. XNA 2.0 in VS2005 or XNA 3.0 in VS2008.

I've also dabbled in darkGDK when I feel like some C++.

Answer 2

Although not Windows-specific, I have used pygame, which can use DirectX as a backend.

Answer 3

I use Dev-C++ and SDL

Answer 4

I developed some cross-platform 2D games (Windows as well) and used C++ with Geany and SDL.

I find SDL to be a great library to make casual games. Of course, if cross-platform means Windows and XBOX for you, then there are other libraries that might be a better choice.

Answer 5

At Flying Lab for Pirates of the Burning Sea we used Visual Studio 2005. At Divide by Zero for we use Visual Studio 2008.

Answer 6

Visual Studio 2008 with XNA 3.0 CTP is what I'm using at the moment. A lot of game development shops are still using VS05, however.