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Is there a way I can make free Xbox Live Indie Games? Now I don't mean to publish it to the world on the marketplace but I just mean to test it on my Xbox for free. I know you have to download the XNA app on your Xbox and PC but do I need the XNA Creators Club subscription to test the games on my Xbox? If I do, is there an alternative way to make and test Xbox games? I know you can make a student account on the Microsoft website and get the subscription for free but I am still in high school and it doesn't really look like high school students can do qualify for it. Even if they can, I couldn

Is there a way to get a user's achievements list from Xbox without dealing with screen scraping etc.? How do sites like http://www.trueachievements.com do it? (they're definitely not screen scraping as they do not have my Live ID credentials...) I know there's the Xbox LIVE Community Developer Program (XCDP) that provides some API but they do not provide achievements information as far as I can tell (links below) http://duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data http://file-pasta.com/file/XML_Feeds.pdf If you want this information you can check out my new site https:/

During the events and promotions around Windows 10, I always see that the UWP apps can run on all devices from Microsoft family. To confirm that, when I am browsing for UWP apps on my browser and I click to see the source code from an app page, I am able to see the following meta data: <meta name="description" content="Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows Phone 10, Windows 10, Surface HUB, HoloLens, other Windows devices, Xbox. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings. " /> So why I can't see these apps on my Xbox app store? I have read this