To assist you in getting the most out of XNA Game Studio Express, independent game maker and technology provider GarageGames has added Torque X to their existing suite of Torque game engines. GarageGames has already migrated key portions of their 2D and 3D game development technologies to the XNA platform, making it easier to design and build a full-featured game in managed C# and the XNA Framework.

If you are a Creators Club Premium member, your membership allows you to download TorqueX for free here.

Get more information on how to become a Creators Club Premium member here.

Allegorithmic is the company behind ProFX, the middleware for the authoring and on-the-fly rendering of procedural textures. Key component of ProFX is MaPZone, the authoring tool allowing the production of AAA quality textures. To assist you in your game production tasks, Allegorithmic is pleased to provide you with a special version of MaPZone tool for the XNA Creators Club- free!

Autodesk offers the FBX SDK that allows developers to easily convert between different proprietary 3D file formats. The FBX file format is one of two formats supported "out of the box" with XNA Game Studio Express.

The SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool gives you full access to all of the professional character creation features available in the industry's only completely non-destructive character workflow-SOFTIMAGE|XSI. This free game modification utility guides 3D professionals, as well as experienced modders and novices, through all of the features and functionality for building and texturing artwork in XSI and for creating and rigging characters, props, and environmental elements. Use the Mod Tool to mix and blend animations or render interactively and then simply export the models to your game.

Turbo Squid’s library of compatible 3D models provides users of XNA Game Studio Express with the high-quality 3D art assets that they need to bring their XNA-based video games to life. Turbo Squid proudly hosts a community of the world’s finest 3D artists; through a partnership with Microsoft, we are able to make those artists’ game ready models available to users of XNA Game Studio Express. XNA developers will find a growing supply of both free and competitively priced models in XNA Game Studio Express-compatible file types (.fbx and .x) that they can incorporate into their games.