Xbox Indie Games Thread

[Bacon McShig]

You guys should try Battle Havoc. It's a very competent Death Tank clone with more content and 1/3 the price (400 points). Nice hand-drawn visual style to it, looks sort of like a slightly more serious Behemoth game. Supports 8-player online deathmatches. Controls take a bit of getting used to, though.

I also enjoyed the trial for Freaky Creatures: Penga's Peril. It's one of those box-pushing puzzle games, like Kwirk. Competent level design. Only 200 points.

[James]

Sales figures = Ow!

Duotrix-

Total units 7595
Full units 157
Demo units 7438

That's some pretty disappointing numbers there. Solar, on the other hand-

"Solar has been up for 6 days and has got 1466 purchases, or $2,565 USD."

Another thread talking about it here, although no specific numbers given. Looks like some people are fine, others are disappointed, and nobody is thrilled. The whole thread makes for some fascinating reading, if you're interested in the business end of this kind of thing.

-edit- And one more Ow! for the developers of Weapon of Choice.

James

[Bacon McShig]

I'm not shocked. It's a badly advertised service with a large field of non-advertised content, and no rating system to help seperate the wheat from the chaff.

[soundwave]

Don't know if this has been posted but its a good resource showcasing some XNA games even though the host has no charisma:

[Matthew Doucette]

Don't know if this has been posted but its a good resource showcasing some XNA games even though the host has no charisma:

XNA Roundup (http://www.youtube.com/user/nicktheduderino) is the best XBLCG review I have found. He does a great job.

[OGcritic]

I bought zoom-a-room because of this guy. I almost bought Miner Dig Deep because of him too.

[Matthew Doucette]

I bought zoom-a-room because of this guy. I almost bought Miner Dig Deep because of him too.

I am heavily involved in XBLCG, to say the least, so XNA Roundup reallly shows me how games need video reviews. The problem with selling a game, is (I think) the majority of a gamer's experience with your game BEFORE he or she buys it, is via the trial. Anyone posting on a gaming boards (that makes all of us), or checking video clips of upcoming games, are not the gamers where the majority of sales come from. So the average gamer does not get to see all the cool stuff the game has to offer. If you offer the cool stuff in the trial, why buy it? You just removed the reason to buy the game. These video reviews really help out. They show that extra content without giving it to you. It's too bad that we didn't have a video trailer spot on Xbox LIVE for everyone to see our trailers (we are going to make a good one) that may help sell the game.

[Matthew Doucette]

I am heavily involved in XBLCG, to say the least, so XNA Roundup reallly shows me how games need video reviews.

And I forgot to mention, that after watching some games in XNA Roundup, the games were much better than I had expected from only playing the trial. So, good job to XNA Roundup. It will be nice when XBLCG games, the good ones, get more coverage.

[James]

I bought zoom-a-room because of this guy. I almost bought Miner Dig Deep because of him too.

I didn't much like Zoom-A-Room at all. Miner Dig Deep, despite being more of an activity than a game, was much more fun. I only stopped playing because it kept crashing on me while using the drill.

Solar is pretty crash-tastic as well.

James

[Nash]

Angry Barry looks pretty bad-ass.