Xbox Creators Program(sandbox and test account)

opt in · Sep 11, 2019

WHY is the information around this subject so bad. There is hardly any decent info about and the little info that is about is vague, for the most part badly written and somewhat outdated.

CURRENT ISSUE:

SETTING UP SANDBOX AND TEST ACCOUNT

When testing my game on xbox one, I have to create a new submission in the dev center for my game. One of the steps is authorizing a test account for use within your sandbox. Problem is it says I dont have permission to do that. How am I supposed to get
permission? The above picture is the alert I get.

EDIT: I know the alert says contact my acccount admin, but who's that?

:)

XBF Amber M

Hi opt in,

Thanks for reaching out to us in the Xbox forums for this issue. Based on the screenshot you've kindly provided, you'll need to have your Microsoft account set as administrator on your device to proceed. As you're using the development programs, I further
recommend the following resources to help you out in creating the test account and for troubleshooting:

Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10

Developer Mode Activation App FAQ

Xbox One Developer Mode activation

https://developer.microsoft.com/store/register << contains troubleshooting links

Windows developer support
<< more info about getting started & some quick tips

You may also wish to visit the Developing Universal Windows apps forum as well. They would likely be able to provide more
direct information regarding any other issues you may experience.

Give these options a try for troubleshooting and let us know the results.

I hope that this helps you out!

opt in

Cool thank you. I'll have a look and post back with the results.

XBF Brad A

Hello Lion,

Thanks for coming to the forums. The sandbox ID is attached to what program or game you are doing. If this is changed it may affect that development. You can look over the

documents for Xbox live sandbox creators.

Thanks,

Brad

ThisGameIsSucky

There's also the creator's program link. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers/creators-program

When you sign up for a dev account through the creator's program they provide you with all the necessary tools/documents/programs for creating a game on any level. According to the site, the necessary steps would be: create a dev account, create the product
in the dev center and implement Xbox Live, enable Dev Mode on your console for testing, and publish. The dev account activation requires a subscription fee, its a one time fee I believe.

According to the site you can write using C# or C++. And as far as I am aware the supported engines for developing are Constructs 2 & 3, Unity, GameMaker 2, Xenko, and MonoGame.

I hope that helps?

XBF Diego M

Hi Ricky,

We won't have that information for you on the community forums since these are questions only the creators of this program can answer and the program creators do not have a presence here on the forums.

Best thing to do is check out the Creators program page and down towards the bottom there is a contact us link.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers/creators-program/

You may also need to transition to the L:
ID@XBOX program and you can ask them your specific questions about what to do in a region that is not supported by Xbox Live. They have a Twitter account where you can ask them questions.
https://twitter.com/id_xbox

I hope this helps.

Xbox Creators Program(sandbox and test account)