-- create an infrastructure so that indie developers can get paid (there are over 1500
XBL indie games available now, and some developers have as little as one game on the service, so that's a * lot * of cheques going out to developers every quarter)
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XBL Indie Games Drop In Price - What You Should Pick Up?
It looks like some indie devs are getting tired of dull, boring, and mediocre games showing up in
the XBL Indie Games section.
On the Dragon Divide site, Steve has an article that sheds some light on the situation on why the patch was delayed as long as it was and as well as how
the XBL Indie Games channel works.
You slap a 80 points price tag on it and name it Ranger, Silver Dollar Games» newest
XBL Indie title.
We have Dungeon Defenders on Steam, a couple of Avatar code and
a XBL Indie game.
Have you ever seen the Humble Bundles and wish that
XBL Indie games would have something similar?
Protect Me Knight is the first
XBL Indie Game from Ancient, a small studio managed by game soundtrack composer Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, Etrian Odyssey, Ys... and, like, a billion other games).
«まもって騎士» (which apparently translates to Protect Me Knight) It is made by a Japanese Xbox Live Indie Games developer, and the number of Japanese making
XBL Indie Games always surprises me given the Xbox 360 is not a huge success in Japan (as I type this only about 1.5 million 360s have been sold in Japan, a fraction of the approx. 45 million sold worldwide as of this writing).
Zeboyd's second
XBL Indie Games RPG has won a list of accolades as long as its first, and both games represent insanely good value (the first 80 Microsoft Points, the second 240 points).
This has been a top selling title for
XBL Indie Games, despite the fact that it's one of the few titles on the service that (until a few days ago) still cost 800 Microsoft Points.
There are a few games out that that let two players control two characters with one controller (
XBL indie game «FallDown» comes to mind).
This game is easily one of the best in
the XBL Indie Games channel, and a great addition to anyone's game collection at 240 Microsoft Points.
Milkstone Studios is a prolific developer of great
XBL indie games.
Not exact matches
I wasn't surprised by its polish, the game comes from the same author (Christophe Panattoni) that made the absolutely stunning game Soul, that I reviewed back on day day 9 of my
XBL -
Indie - Game - a-day-binge.
Also most console gamers don't realize that the pc gamers have access to 1,000's of
indie games ans software not on psn,
xbl, or nintendo's marketplace and a small to mid portion of them are shovelware, but a large portion of them are really good.
Indie Watch: Kunio Series Returns With Downtown Smash Dodgeball» «Kunio» is a classic set of old games made by Technos, including old NES titles like River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball, and now Dodgeball is on
XBL Indies!»
Indie games which are self - published on the XBL Marketplace, are featured in the indie section of the marketplace and don't receive the attention, and number of sales, that an XBLA featured game
Indie games which are self - published on the
XBL Marketplace, are featured in the
indie section of the marketplace and don't receive the attention, and number of sales, that an XBLA featured game
indie section of the marketplace and don't receive the attention, and number of sales, that an XBLA featured game does.
One of the biggest problems with publishing
indie games on
XBL has been the high price of updating a game as an
indie developer.
Add that to the fact that patching a game on
XBL costs tens of thousands of dollars, but is free on PSN, and it's clear why
indie developers are flocking to PlayStation.