Microsoft® XNA™ is composed of industry-leading software, services, resources, and communities focused on enabling game developers to be successful on Microsoft gaming platforms. Their team asked Personify Design to create a new site to allow better collaboration among their gaming community. Requirements included integration with Live ID (formerly Passport), integration with Xbox “gamertags”, and forums and blogs.

Personify modified Community Server 2.1 to use Live ID 4.5 as the authentication mechanism for the user accounts on the site. Once authenticated the user’s gamertag that is associated with a Live ID would be retrieved via web services and their gamertag attributes would be retrieved from an Xbox.com web service. These modifications allow for a personalized look and feel for each user visiting the site. Check it out at http://creators.xna.com.