Xbox 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...
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 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 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 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'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'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 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'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 Article'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...
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