In Support of Indie/Community Games
Filed under: Community Games , Games , Indie , Xbox 360 , XNA
In recent years I haven’t played much in the way of Indie games other than what is on Xbox Live Arcade. I’m essentially a console gamer yet a large portion of Indie games are Windows applications.
I’ve stayed away from running/installing games on a PC because I’ve had issues:
- Dealing with hardware/drivers that caused problems in games
- Trusting .EXE’s found on the ‘Net
So now that Xbox 360 Community Games are available to the public I’ve found myself once again revisiting the Indie scene.
I’ve mentioned my fondness for Blow, Bloc and Colosseum, but there are plenty of other great titles including Weapon of Choice, Biology Battle and Word Soup. Microsoft is also continually expanding the countries that are able to submit into the Community Games. As they do, many additional games, including those that were part of the Dream Build Play and Imagine Cup competitions, should be coming our way.
On top of that there are plenty of developers making games using XNA on Windows. I would love to see these on the 360. Have a look at the two examples below and then contact the developers and see if you can help me convince them to get the games onto Community Games.
Ultimately what I’m saying is that I’m super excited to see that Indie Game developers can tout their wares from a venue that is not only dedicated to their cause but also trustworthy for those wishing to play the games.
And if you can, support these developers with not only words of encouragement but the purchase of their games.
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Blueberry Garden
Game Details: http://eriksvedang.wordpress.com/blueberrygarden/
Developer: Erik Svedäng
Carrion Re-animating
Game Details: http://www.zombie-cow.com/?page_id=375
Developer: Zombie Cow Studios and Lemmy&Binky
