Editing Microsoft XNA (section)

===XNA Build===
XNA Build is a set of game asset pipeline management tools, which help by defining, maintaining, debugging, and optimizing the ''game asset pipeline'' of individual game development efforts. A ''game asset pipeline'' describes the process by which game content, such as textures and 3D models, are modified to a form suitable for use by the gaming engine. XNA Build helps identify the pipeline dependencies, and also provides API access to enable further processing of the dependency data. The dependency data can be analyzed to help reduce the size of a game by finding content that is not actually used. For example, XNA Build analysis revealed that 40% of the textures that shipped with ''[[MechCommander 2]]'' were unused and could have been omitted.<ref name="teamblog">{{Cite web |date=2006-01-24 |title=Will XNA tools be able to help reduce game sizes? |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2006/01/24/517071.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060206160118/http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2006/01/24/517071.aspx |archive-date=2006-02-06 |website=[[MSDN]]}}</ref>