'World Molder' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
A sort of Play-Doh in video game form, "World Molder" is a platformer where you make the platforms. The basic scenario in every level is the same: Find the key and get to the door by jumping from...
View Article'Bullet Trap' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
A simple idea solidly executed is what bite-size gaming is all about. "Bullet Trap" uses one stick for shooting and the other for shield, restricts your movement to a few specific nodes, and then...
View ArticleXbox Live Indie Games Showcase - Honorable Mentions
Something a little different this week: Instead of focusing on one Indie Game, here’s a selection of fifteen titles. I didn’t love any of them quite enough to give them their own entry, but all are...
View Article'Filler' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
The "wife test," devised by game designer Warren Spector, consists of three questions: 1) Will my wife play this game? 2) Will my wife want to play this game again? 3) Will my wife play this game even...
View Article'Skwug' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
Wolverine might've gotten his own movie-game, but my favorite X-Man was always Nightcrawler, and his teleportation power has been sadly unrepresented in gaming---until now. "Skwug" is a platformer...
View Article'Green Island' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
The Japanese went even crazier for "Bubble Bobble" than America's arcade masses (there's been a version of it for nearly every platform on the little island!), and Japanese indie title "Green Island"...
View Article'Crystal Spear Remake' - Xbox Live Indie Games Showcase
There isn't a whole lot you can do with the racing game template. Sure you can add power-ups, tweak the physics, and endlessly improve the graphics, but whatever you do, you've basically just got...
View ArticleXbox Live Indie Games Will 'Uprise' Again This Summer
The Xbox Live Indie Games market is a great place to discover smaller titles you might have otherwise overlooked. Of course, it's also filled to the brim with crappy shlock like games featuring...
View ArticleIndie Games Summer Uprising Headliners Announced
A month ago, we told you about the Xbox Live Indie Games Summer Uprising. The community-created event originally began last winter, as a way to showcase some of the better titles that appear on the...
View ArticleXbox Live Indie Game Devs: MS Is Loosening The Rules For You
Microsoft raises the cap on game sizes, number of titles allowed from developers in the marketplace. If you're a developer for Xbox Live Indie Games, Microsoft has just tweaked their rules a bit for...
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