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Originally Posted by slash000

Right, if a game wins DBP, they might end up with a deal that changes their release plans.

Of course it's not like DBP guarantees an XBLA contract or anything, at least not any more, so it probably won't really matter.

Yeah, I'm sure it's only Dust and Dishwasher, isn't it? Or was that Silver Dollar thing a DBP winner too? Still, I like to think BtM could have been on XBLA if it hadn't come out already last year, maybe I'm dreaming!

As long as they've played the games to verify their quality, all's good. We don't want another Raventhorne, which looked great in the trailer...

Still, either way I don't think anything's going to live up to Dead Sea.

Correct, the XBLA contract is no longer guaranteed.

And if one did in fact with the contract and couldn't be released as part of the Uprising, I think it supports our notion of being able to choose good games :p.

I don't think XBLA contracts are part of the DBP awards at all any more just in general. So if a DBP winner ends up on XBLA it's not necessarily because they won, but because some company took interest and got it up on there.

Dishwasher and Dust way back won it when an "opportunity" for XBLA contracts were part of winning DBP.



Anyway I have to try this Dead Sea you speak of.

Originally Posted by slash000

Anyway I have to try this Dead Sea you speak of.

Please be aware that you are only trying it ironically, don't go in with hopes of a game with any redeeming qualities or anything!

I don't think an XBLA contract was ever guaranteed on DBP, was it? Just something that might happen, possibly, it's always been about the cash first and foremost.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

Please be aware that you are only trying it ironically, don't go in with hopes of a game with any redeeming qualities or anything!

Okay, you made me go find a youtube video. Urgh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=y5_SK0Pe9iI

Is there actual voice in the final game? Without it, it is incredibly awkward to watch. Also, the lack of music adds to the dead-ness of the clip.

Originally Posted by vireland

Okay, you made me go find a youtube video. Urgh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=y5_SK0Pe9iI

Is there actual voice in the final game? Without it, it is incredibly awkward to watch. Also, the lack of music adds to the dead-ness of the clip.

That trailer is EXACTLY the same as the intro is in the final game, albeit blown up to ten times the size and blurry as hell as a result.

(They entered this into DBP as well)

Originally Posted by slash000

If this game borrows any inspiration at all from Ninja Five-O I will kiss them.

I wish that someone, somewhere, would somehow build upon the ideas from Ninja Five-O, aka one of the greatest 2D ninja action-platformers ever made. Ever.

Ninja Five-O fistbump! One of the best games on the GBA for sure.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

Looks like there's going to be another uprising, anything you can tell us, Dave? Mainly interested to know how you're going to make sure there are better games this time? (And that the games are actually ready to come out).

Also, everyone has to download Dead Sea. This is completely ESSENTIAL.

Dead Sea is... well, it's definitely something. I'm horrified by it in more ways than one.

Also, anyone play Mister Jump yet? The game steals sound effects from Super Mario.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

That trailer is EXACTLY the same as the intro is in the final game, albeit blown up to ten times the size and blurry as hell as a result.

(They entered this into DBP as well)

I can't find anything on the actual gameplay. What's it like?

Originally Posted by Dark Octave

I can't find anything on the actual gameplay. What's it like?

In just one of a series of cock-ups, the game doesn't really make it clear. As far as I can tell, you press RT and LT to swim but it doesn't tell you where to head for, and if you press RT and LT to swim a shark will come and eat you unless you do a minigame. Also if you press RT and LT to swim you'll get tired and drown. I'm not entirely sure what the actual goal is or how you're meant to do it when the actual act of gameplay gets you killed.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

In just one of a series of cock-ups, the game doesn't really make it clear. As far as I can tell, you press RT and LT to swim but it doesn't tell you where to head for, and if you press RT and LT to swim a shark will come and eat you unless you do a minigame. Also if you press RT and LT to swim you'll get tired and drown. I'm not entirely sure what the actual goal is or how you're meant to do it when the actual act of gameplay gets you killed.

You have to swim to one of the buoys. I went north and found one. She climbs up on it, but by the time I got there, my trial ran out lol

Originally Posted by OnPoint

You have to swim to one of the buoys. I went north and found one. She climbs up on it, but by the time I got there, my trial ran out lol

I think you should purchase it so that when you 100/100 it you can tell us everything about it and how awesome it is.

Originally Posted by Dark Octave

I think you should purchase it so that when you 100/100 it you can tell us everything about it and how awesome it is.

I hope to never play it again. Ever.

lol

When you get to the buoy, the shark starts jumping at you and you do more QTE's to swing the buoy back and forth to avoid it. Eventually the shark gets bored and swims away. That's when the trial ends.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

Also, check out the trailer for Ninja Exorcist! Haven't tried it yet, I hope it plays as good as it looks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJROu...layer_embedded

Has anyone played this? I had a go at the trial and can't make up my mind. I'm inclined to like it.

Look at Slick, though!

Not as pretty as Treasure Treasure, but, promises 100 levels of platforming

Mmm, that looks right up my alley. Looks a bit like the Johnny Platform games, but colourless.

Pretty disappointed in both Slick and the Ninja Exorcist game. Slick is just really basic with subpar controls, and they kind of halfassed the whole presentation aspect -- one of its main selling points. Ninja Exorcist has a bunch of great ideas and great art but the execution is pretty poor. Like, there's sections where you need to break boxes, and they're stacked up. Your normal swing destroys the bottom two boxes, leaving a third at head height. You then need to either jump and attack that third, eye-level boxes or crouch under and crawl through. Just an example of inconvenient design.

Thought Slick was pretty fun myself. It's obviously very simple (as far as I've seen so far) but I didn't have any problems with the controls. Well, beyond this weird little "hop" thing that he does when he lands that makes jumping twice difficult (unless you hold A down).

Certainly saw 80pts of value in it.

I guess it just wasn't my taste then. I mean, it wasn't Notebook Adventures bad, but it just wasn't for me.

I finally had some time to play some XBLIGs last night, and well....

[B]Slick[/B]
Clearly a gameboy inspired title, with it's monochromatic color scheme and simple controls. Despite this, I found it to be a nice nostalgic ride back to the late 80's / early 90's. Everything felt authentic, from the screens, to the sound effects, but after a few minutes it just wasn't very much fun.

Dead Sea
The cinematics were reminiscent of the early Saturn / PS1 era, where the character mouth movements don't match the text at all, and the sound effects chime in about 3 seconds too late. It was a brief blast to the past however, as the gameplay.....well I had no idea of what I was doing. Or what I was supposed to do. After 5 minutes I just folded my hands and walked away. My boat is capsized and I'm floating in the water, surrounded by a swarm of hungry sharks. Like my character, I gave up.

Next up:
oneonone basketball
Ninja Exorcist (how can you not like this game?)
CatHunterPoyPoy (beat me to the whole "cat" thing.... and he hunts cats!)

Yeah, I thought Slick was OK if you haven't already got Johnny Platform Saves Christmas, but the character has a sloppy way of landing after a jump (he seems to hover for a split second) and the level design isn't half as good, at least in the initial levels.

I remember liking Ninja Exorcist when I playtested it a while ago, but at that stage there was a bug early on that stopped me progressing. I'll have to try the finished version.

(BTW I forgot to say thanks for the Silver award Dark Octave. Thanks!)

Originally Posted by Trumpets

Yeah, I thought Slick was OK if you haven't already got Johnny Platform Saves Christmas, but the character has a sloppy way of landing after a jump (he seems to hover for a split second) and the level design isn't half as good, at least in the initial levels.

I remember liking Ninja Exorcist when I playtested it a while ago, but at that stage there was a bug early on that stopped me progressing. I'll have to try the finished version.

(BTW I forgot to say thanks for the Silver award Dark Octave. Thanks!)

Your games are amazing and you add a huge amount of value to XBLIG so thank you.

Time to beat on a dead horse. I've been talking about it for a while in these threads but with IE coming I see no reason for them to start allowing free ad based games like on wp7. Id play a hell of a lot more games if they were free. All those 80pts games which we've forgotten about for free and each time we play the dev gets something too. Win, win.

"Some people may argue that this is unfair, but I would argue that there really isn’t anything more democratic than a system that rewards developers based on consumer choices. Isn’t delivering what the consumer wants the goal of any good marketplace?"

Excellent read from the man behind Digital DNA Games

Originally Posted by slash000

If this game borrows any inspiration at all from Ninja Five-O I will kiss them.

I wish that someone, somewhere, would somehow build upon the ideas from Ninja Five-O, aka one of the greatest 2D ninja action-platformers ever made. Ever.

One of the factors I really liked about NFO was that the jump slash would kill almost all enemies in one hit, that preserved the flow of the game where you get close and then just jump-slash past the enemy to kill him instead of stopping and pulling some stupid combo. Combos just don't fit the whole ninja idea where you're a quick and efficient killer with a sharp blade.

Ooooooh

I wonder why they chose CSTW. I'm curious as to how often, and why the titles get selected. Sometimes it is new ones, other times not.

Toy, thank you for pointing out this little gem on Twitter earlier today:

I miss my girlfriend

Originally Posted by slash000

dangit they used the old box art. But hey that's cool! :)

edit: I wasn't expecting / didn't know they were going to use our game for the tile, but sweet!

I don't think they ever inform anyone, not that they have to. I've spoken to other people about it about it before, and they were equally surprised to hear it. Congrats though!

So I played some Ninja Exorcist (funny name) this weekend. It's kind of like an easier Ninja Gaiden (thank god), but I enjoyed it!

http://www.armlessoctopus.com/2012/0...exorcist-pt-1/

"I’d imagine that most gamers would find something worthwhile in their time with Ninja Exorcist. Frequent save points help fend off the frustration of having to start over from the beginning, and the speed of the game is somewhat determined by your approach, although it can be a bit slow at times. If you can can past that, then I’m certain you’ll be entertained during your campaign with Ninja Exorcist, which I highly recommend."

Originally Posted by DaveVoyles

Toy, thank you for pointing out this little gem on Twitter earlier today:

I miss my girlfriend

I honestly have no idea what to make of it in all truth. It's obviously a terrible game but on the other hand it's kind of sweet. Or it might be kind of creepy. I just can't decide. One thing's for sure though, I have never laughed quite as much at the sound effects in a game before, and I can't work out whether to feel bad about it or not.

What a confusing game.

You should totally have got it for the Uprising =P

I'll have to play it tonight, to see if we can make it a last minute addition.

My gf is loving Applejack 2 as she's mad for 2D platformers. I love just how completely random it is - the washing machines remind me of the good old C64/Speccy days of trying to avoid evil toilets and such stuff!

Cool - Matthew Smith style randomness is what I was going for. Your gf has excellent taste!

Someone has released a version of Pong with this as part of the description: "the controls are easy to learn but difficult to master."

If your controls for Pong are difficult to master, then you have gone really fucking wrong somewhere.

Originally Posted by toythatkills

Someone has released a version of Pong with this as part of the description: "the controls are easy to learn but difficult to master."

If your controls for Pong are difficult to master, then you have gone really fucking wrong somewhere.

That's hilarious. I wonder if they realize how that sounds outside their head?

Hahahah that's great.

So I take it that I should do just the opposite?

Also, we've just announced via Twitter, the 1st game in the uprising:

@XBLIGUprising: Attention! Gateways by XBLA/XBLIG veteran @SmudgedCat will be a part of Uprising III! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6_...layer_embedded #XBLIG #XNA

Is there a new thread?

Originally Posted by qupe1975

Is there a new thread?

Nope, this is now July/August. There wasn't anything worth shouting about last month.

If someone who reads this and has the power can change the title, that'd be ace!

Is it bad that time and gravity no longer feel like cool things to manipulate? :-/ Well, except in Gravity Rush... But Gateways looks pretty cool. A good uprising title! The size-changing gateway was a unique idea.

But man... I'd rather manipulate enemey characters, haha. Tie their shoe laces togther, tug on their hair, tap them on ths shoulder, pull a pin from their grenades, steal their extra ammo, give 'em a wedgie, push them into each (causing lunchroom fights), or just bug the heck out of their supreme commander, so that he starts to punish them for me, thinking they did it all...

Originally Posted by toythatkills

Nope, this is now July/August. There wasn't anything worth shouting about last month.

If someone who reads this and has the power can change the title, that'd be ace!

And there I was expecting Dead Sea to walk away with the award......

Olympics is stopping me playing games at the minute as to be honest, few gone up the last couple of days I need to give a ago.

Anybody else play Fallen Angel yet? What a weird game. It's open world like GTA or something, but you do weird fetch quest missions to random people on the street. Apparently you can learn to fly (because you're an angel), but I guess I didn't get that far.

Fallen Angel - Got bored of getting people the dope or the good after about two minutes. Spin-kicked a random pedestrian and they disappeared. Whatever

Pacific Wings - I think that's the title. It doesn't deserve that much of my memory since it's a really really lame 1942 rip-off.

Blaster - Looks like a VGA shareware game. I guess that's a point in its favor. Nothing special but probably the best of the three titles I just downloaded.

Anyone buy that really janky looking N64-era 3d adventure murder mystery game that came out this week? Movement speed and loading are so slow that I didn't end up doing much in the demo. Wondering if the full game is worth a play.

Originally Posted by Dark Octave

If anybody played anything last month that they felt was worthy of mention, I'll add it to the OP. I have a couple that I have been meaning to add and I'll try to do it tomorrow.

Super Wagon Adventure and OCD are worth picking up I think. I also think Sushi Castle is a decent game, I have no idea of whatever it's cloned by but tbh I couldn't care less.

Not tried Ava Glide 2 yet, it is back out and Ninja Exorcist needs a bit more time for me to decide. Puzzled has tons of levels and loads of music and some I swear is from Apple Jack, seems to be doing well in the ratings another I need to play a bit more.

I'll be reviewing Dust: An Elysian Tail for G4TV.

I'll give it a fair score, I promise! = D

Indie Game Uprising trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWu17fIdJQ

Diehard Dungeon, City Tuesday, Gateways, pixel, Entropy, Xenominer, Smooth Operators Call Center Chaos, Sententia, and... can't fucking read that font. (arth-phyl?)

Cool looking lineup. I forgot all about City Tuesday until now. Mostly a very polished and unique looking bunch.

Originally Posted by HadesGigas

Indie Game Uprising trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWu17fIdJQ

Diehard Dungeon, City Tuesday, Gateways, pixel, Entropy, Xenominer, Smooth Operators Call Center Chaos, Sententia, and... can't fucking read that font. (arth-phyl?)

Needs a new thread, some of these look great!

Originally Posted by HadesGigas

Indie Game Uprising trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWu17fIdJQ

Diehard Dungeon, City Tuesday, Gateways, pixel, Entropy, Xenominer, Smooth Operators Call Center Chaos, Sententia, and... can't fucking read that font. (arth-phyl?)

Summer of Arcade looking like shit compared to this, seriously. Can't wait for these to be released.