XNA wheat:chaff identification thread.

[Blucey]

Xbox 360 Indie games are shit.

Except for when they are good and it happens occasionally.

Off the top of my head.


I Made A Game With Zombies In It - 80MSP - twin-stick shooter that has the best soundtrack ever and is a decent high-score shooter for bragging rights. No online leaderboards but if you need a marker... 850,280.

Shoot 1UP - 80MSP - it looks like an Amiga game and is a vertical scrolly shooter. It's also completely brilliant and innovative. You control a legion of ships (rather than having lives) and tear ass through lots of quite brown levels.

Groov - 80MSP - twin-stick Geometry Wars clone with amazing music and half-decent gameplay. Worth a look but the gameplay goes out of the window when you realise that staying in one corner is the key to survival.

Solar - 80MSP - an interesting curio where you get to play as the sun. No, not the newspaper/comic for the unwashed masses. The huge thing in the sky. Gets old quick but is charming.

Arkedo Swap/Jump/Pixel - 240MSP each - high quality old-school retro style games that look beautiful and play pretty decently as well. Bit pricey though.

[Blucey]

Decimation X - Space Invaders but with about a million bullets and some decent power-ups. Not nearly as stylish as Space Invaders Extreme (XBLA) but a lot more fun. A tenth of the price too (80M$P).

Pixelkiller - old school platformer with rubbish shooting. Like N+ but with no inertia. Not great. Cheap though.

[Blucey]

Look, I know. I know that 99.9% of Indie games are shit and we'd all rather stick our collective genitalia that volcano in Iceland than pay 240M$P for one but I'm telling you that MotorHEAT is the best risk v reward game ever made. Better than Qix even. It's just so perfect.

[The Preacher]

I've bought two of those games, when they were still called Xbox Live Community Games, and I was underwhelmed by them in the long run, because I was working under the assumption that what I initially played was similar to XBLA games; a demo, not the full-featured actual game just with a time limit. So I was pretty miffed to find out that nothing was added other than I could play for more than 10 minutes.

So whilst I have been reading this topic, I hadn't said much because I've been put off bothering with Indie games. I have too many retail and XBLA games waiting to be finished anyway. It's not that you're being totally ignored though, for what it's worth, heh.

[Blucey]

my whole last post is really about the sheer wonderfulness of MotorHEAT as opposed to any XNA thread apathy!

[Blucey]

MotorHEAT is 80pts now.

A steal at that price.

[Blucey]

OOOH! Check out Apple Jack. It's a bit of a Mario clone/homage but it's just lovely.

[Blucey]

Vampire Rage - 80pts - very impressive, Cave-esque vertical shooter with decent graphics and great gameplay. A seriously competant game, well worth the spendage.

[Blucey]

Fans of arcade games, rhythm action games and puzzlers should all check out Comet, it's 80pts. It's LOVELY.

[Moobs]

I rather enjoy the madness of ZP845K or whatever its called, not the easiest name to remember.
Its by the guy who did Last-dishwasher & I made a game with zombies... its a solely online affair too, up to 6 players all beating each other down with various weapons.


Miner Dig Deep is a lovely little game too, idea of that is to just dig deep.. sounds a bit pants but once you start getting drawn in you easily lose a couple of hours to the depths of the game world, think I've only got upto 3000ft or so.