Indie porting tool ExEn makes Xbox 360 ports on iPhone and Android slightly more likely

In some unloved corner of the indie development community programmer Andrew Russell has launched a piece of software called ExEn, though only to those who helped fund it for now.

Why should you care? Because the raison d'etre of ExEn is to let developers easily port games developed in XNA – i.e. Xbox 360 and Windows Phone games – to Silverlight and iOS. Russell is currently porting his own indie game, Dark, to iOS using ExEn.

While this probably doesn't mean DeathSpank, Trials HD, and 'Splosion Man will appear on iOS within the month, there's a reasonable chance that we'll see more indie games – gems like ZP2KX: Zombies & Pterodactyls!., Zombiez 8 My Cookiez, and Astroman - making their way across.

Russell promises to add an Android port soon.