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The XNA Indie Games Official Thread
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Dark Octave
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You'd think a playable demo would be enough.mujun said:
RadarScope1
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Relaxed Muscle said:
Putting is the hardest part of Avatar Golf. Greens are a bit difficult to read but with enough play time you can learn what works and be putting for birdies pretty often if you've had a good approach onto the green. Try the course editor!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hey, I'm curious. If you get the XNA membership, do you also get access to the peer reviewing backend?
I don't really have a need to port game code to the 360 at the moment, but I wouldn't mind checking out/being a part of the process of "certification".
I don't really have a need to port game code to the 360 at the moment, but I wouldn't mind checking out/being a part of the process of "certification".
John Bombo
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if you have a premium membership, you have access to peer reviewing and playtesting
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's different from the 99 dollar Creator's Club membership I take it?
John Bombo
Member
Nope, that's the same thing.
The premium membership costs 99 dollars a year or 49 dollars for 4 months.
The premium membership costs 99 dollars a year or 49 dollars for 4 months.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Ah, awesome. Cheers. 
barkers crest
Member
firehawk12 said:Ah, awesome. Cheers.
You might try contacting some creators that have put out great games and let them know you have a membership and would be willing to help test their games...if that is something you'd like to do.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, I wouldn't mind doing that. There's this thread, of course, but where do developers usually hang out?
barkers crest
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creators.xna.com
barkers crest
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Dean, have you heard back from the XNA team yet? Are you able to talk about your future? ...or should nosey people keep their mouth shut? :lol
Dr. Zoidberg said:
There isn't really a way for us to throw out "obvious garbage". If the game is broken or offensive in some way Peer Review has been super successful in catching it. We try to help balance it out with the eight minute trials and (at last!) user ratings. So, thank you for rating, buying, and playing Indie Games!
You guys have a point with the lack of demo with some of the games. We're looking into making a rule to prevent this. We never anticipated that people would NOT want to show off their game
xxoo
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Noogy said:
Hrm, yeah. I can understand why some people wouldn't want to put their stuff out there until it was completely ready.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
todayzee said:
Let's be honest here. There are products on IG that are so poor that they harm the "brand" as a whole and may turn off potential customers from even trying ANY IG in the future. In a perfect world, someone would evaluate these things and judge them "suitable for release" or not. I'm not just talking about questionable content or bugginess, but judging whether the product has any redeeming merit past that. However, as I said, I realize that there would be great problems with this because people would argue over "who gets to decide?" and the fact that most people's trash may be one man's treasure. So I totally understand why these things aren't filtered. I just wish they were.
todayzee said:
Most of the ones who don't show off their games have very little to show. They are, in most cases, the major offenders of what I discussed above. Their app has so little merit or content that they know a trial would sour any chances of a sale. My initial impression upon encountering one of these types of apps is that the author is a swindler trying to pull a "fast one". Whether that is true or not is hard to gauge, since I would never give them my money to find out.
Don't get the wrong impression. I love XB Indie games. I want it to be as healthy as it can be. It's just that a torrent of poor, unfiltered games is what killed the Atari 2600 and almost the industry. I'd hate to see the same fate befall IG.
Philip Muwanga's Hexy Trench now 80pts
Psychotext
Member
Hexy Trench is fantastic... no brainer buy at that price if you're into that sort of game.
GDJustin said:
Not really, they are different games that are doing the same challenge: http://lostgarden.com/2008/11/fishing-girl-game-prototyping-challenge.html
Scottlarock
Banned
question for game makers, I've programed in pascal have limited exp with C+ but created a ton of stuff back when basic was popular, how different is XNA from these?
Intruder_qc
Neo Member
Scottlarock said:
If you have programming experience I think it should be not too difficult to learn the XNA framework. You will first need to learn C# though which is similar to C/C++/Java in its syntax.
You can check the following site for learning C# (ive read the PDF myself and I found it very good)
http://www.csharpcourse.com/
Then move on to creators.xna.com to tried the XNA tutorials which will teach you the basic.
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted
Also they have several books you can buy from Amazon or other book stores that teaches XNA.
Have fun learning and building your first game ;-).
RadarScope1
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Tried Pixel Man and I love the aesthetic but the other 20 levels would have to be a LOT more complex for it to be something worthwhile.
Azure Dream
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Noogy said:
Bullshit. It's blind jumping toward off-screen hazards. It's not pure platforming, it's pure second-guessing by the end. :lol
It also had a nasty habit of not recognizing jumps too close to the edge of platforms.
StAidan
Member
Pixel Man makes my personal "top list" of indie games... once in a while you just need an unforgiving retro platformer.
I'm hoping to have my game ready for the service within a month or so. I'm being laid off in November though, so a fair amount of my time is going toward job searching right now.
I'm hoping to have my game ready for the service within a month or so. I'm being laid off in November though, so a fair amount of my time is going toward job searching right now.
barkers crest
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I put a little post on my website blog about this. Pretty cool.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
barkers crest said:I put a little post on my website blog about this. Pretty cool.
You really should consider starting to extend your tendrils towards indie development for XBLA. Not that your XNA stuff is anything less than great, but I think you know as well as I do that if Avatar Golf had been released on XBLA as-is, you'd be a hundred thousand-aire right now.
Psychotext
Member
That's certainly not going to harm your sales.
barkers crest
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Stumpokapow said:
Thanks man! To do that I'd have to partner up with an artist Jonathan Blow style.
Intruder_qc
Neo Member
Great TV report on CBC (Canada) about Duality ZF the upcoming shooter on XBLIG by XonaGames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqcrKunPKFs
Its great to see XBLIG to make it to the big news on TV!
Congrats guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqcrKunPKFs
Its great to see XBLIG to make it to the big news on TV!
Congrats guys!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Man, it looks like the MSDN memberships only let you deploy games to the console, not test other people's stuff.
That's kind of disappointing. I can understand charging for people to submit games for review, but even for testing?
That's kind of disappointing. I can understand charging for people to submit games for review, but even for testing?
Azure Dream
Member
chubigans said:
It's not a Miner Dig Deep, but it's very charming, and has a lot of polish. I accidentally skipped the intro when I played, so getting one of the badges surprised me.
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