It may not be God of War or Dead Rising, but someone managed to churn out an Xbox 360 game in 24 hours using XNA Game Studio Express beta. The 601 lines of code called Asteroids Defense has you shooting down a shower of asteroids with increasingly strong weapons.

Just the sort of drivel I hope won't start coursing onto Live Arcade. Well, at least it's easy to produce drivel. Brian Crecente

My First Game... Asteroids Defense [MSDN Forums]

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