Microsoft Gaming Tools and Services

GitHub helps your teams work more efficiently together. From indie to AAA, host and review code, manage projects, and build your game. 

Azure offers a set of battle-tested services backed by an enterprise-grade cloud, all of which can be used to build, run, and grow live games.

Replace tedious and time-consuming manual work in 3D games content creation, reducing production time and development costs.

Best-in-class tools for game developers with rich code navigation. Collaborate in real-time with anyone and create cloud-hosted dev environments.

Microsoft GDK public GitHub repository for the software and tools needed to build games for Xbox Game Pass for PC on Windows 10/11.

Xbox Services for game developers enable you to build games for consoles, PC, and mobile, and attract and engage players with a trusted, inclusive gaming identity and community of over 60 million users globally.

Improve the way you plan, collaborate, automate, and ship with an end-to-end set of modern DevOps services.

More easily build rich immersive 3D applications and experiences that map, persist, and restore 3D content or points of interest at real-world scale.

DirectX graphics provides a set of APIs that you can use to create games and other high-performance multimedia applications.

Xbox Game Bar is a customizable gaming overlay that gives players access to experience-enhancing widgets — all without leaving their game.

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub.

Award-winning, battle-tested, and scalable, Havok Physics is the gold standard for game developers when it comes to real-time collision detection and dynamic simulation.

Optimized, adaptable, and robust, Havok AI offers navigation mesh generation, pathfinding, and steering—enabling characters to intelligently understand and react to dynamic worlds.

Customizable, fully multithreaded, and highly optimized, Havok Cloth enables creators to add physically based motion to garments, hair, banners, foliage, and other soft bodies.

The ID@Xbox program enables qualified developers of all sizes to unleash their creativity by self-publishing digital games on Xbox and Windows with Xbox services.

Project Acoustics does for audio design what physically-based lighting did for graphics, powered by Azure. It is a codeless wave physics-based system that calculates acoustic parameters for wave propagation effects based on the materials and geometry of your virtual world.

Use App Center to automate and manage the lifecycle of your games- Build. Test. Deploy. Engage. Repeat.

The Creator’s Program is the fastest path to publishing your game to Xbox One and Windows 10. With a simplified certification process and not concept approval required, get your game in the last lane!

The Xbox Insider Program allows passionate Xbox fans the opportunity to give us feedback on the latest Xbox system updates, as well as features and games still in development on both Xbox consoles and Windows 10 devices.