doobiwan
Executive Member
Man I want to get my hands on these!!!
and to think this is just what's available on launch day!
Everyone stop downloading the NXE so the servers get a break ...
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/932/932104p1.html
Lines
Best New Twist on Tetris Award
Developer: EdAndersenUK
Cost: 200
Tetris clones are a dime a dozen, so it's pretty exciting to find an inexpensive take on the classic puzzle game that does something new. Forget the idea of multiple shapes being fit together. Instead, every shape is a block. But each block has lines on it. Sometimes a straight line, sometimes an L and others are T lines. You need to maneuver the blocks so that you continue a line for as long as possible. The catch is that you can only rotate white blocks. The red blocks (which can't be rotated) are just as plentiful. It's a cool idea that works well. And, again, it's fairly inexpensive.
Check out Lines in action.
Write your own review.
Poker Ball
Best Balls
Developer: MarkcusD
Cost: 200
America has two great pastimes -- Poker and Arkanoid. Finally, those two passions have been merged. Poker Ball is Arkanoid (you know, the game where you knock a ball into a bunch of colored blocks) only the blocks have been replaced with poker cards. Every five cards you hit becomes a hand and the better the hand, the more points you earn. The physics aren't perfect (certainly not as good as Arkanoid), but the concept is solid. And the price is right. For a fun take on a classic, give Poker Ball a shot.
Write your own review.
Weapon of Choice
Best Game That Could Have Been on XBLA
Developer: Mommy's Best Games
Cost: 400
Weapon of Choice is a colorful 2D side-scrolling action game full of disgusting monsters, crazy characters and numerous nods to retro games and movies. And designer Nathan Fouts is a former developer at Insomniac Games, so he also knows a ridiculous gun when he sees it. And there are plenty to be found in Weapon of Choice. Some extend on chains and shoot around corners, others fling sawblades into the air, and there's even a device full of robotic arms strapped to your back that allows you to climb cliffs and scale surfaces at will. And even though it's incredibly strange and full of surprises, Weapon of Choice is also surprisingly well-made for an XNA indie title, and that's exactly what we're looking for from the fledgling service.
Check out a trailer for Weapon of Choice.
Write your own review.
Word Soup
The No Soup for You! Award
Developer: Fuzzy Bug
Cost: 400
Think of Word Soup as a newspaper word search meets Boggle. A grid is created with random letters. Each letter has a point value based on how challenging it is to use. (Ed. Note: You score way more than 11 points off the word quagmire.) You need to make words, connecting letters up, down, left, right or diagonal -- just so long as they are touching. As you use letters, the blocks are destroyed and the puzzle shifts. In this way you can actually use strategy to create small words to shift the puzzle in order to then make larger words. And if that doesn't get you excited, nothing in this damned world ever will.
Write your own review.
Cold Soup
In the Pit
Best Excuse for Being Too Lazy to Create Art for Your Game Award
Developer: luvcraft
Cost: 400
Game development has often been called a lazy man's profession. At least that's what it would be called if every game were like In the Pit. Here's the concept. You're a monster in a pit. People fall in and you eat them. Sounds cool, right? Ah, but there's a twist. You're blind. And that's why there are no graphics. This is an "audio" game, which features heavy panting and a monster going splish-splash. It doesn't work. And the "blind monster" angle is a pretty huge copout so as not to create any art. If you're going to have a black screen (they mastered the HUDless interface!) then at least have incredible audio. In the Pits is the pits.
Watch...err...listen to In the Pit.
Write your own review.
Even More Cold Soup
* Abstacked - 200 MSP
* Alien Ambush - 200 MSP
* Bad Atom Episode 1 - 200 MSP
* Beat IT! - 200 MSP
* Being - 200 MSP
* Colosseum - 800 MSP
* Cubage - 200 MSP
* Drift - 400 MSP
* DUOtrix - 400 MSP
* Fruit Attack - 400 MSP
* Fuel Depot 360 - 200 MSP
* Funky Punch XL - 400 MSP
* Galax-e-mail - 200 MSP
* Loot, Steal 'n Destroy - 400 MSP
* Organon - 200 MSP
* Rift - 200 MSP
* SMASHELL - 400 MSP
* SpaceCombat - 200 MSP
* Tail Gun Charlie - 400 MSP
* Totem - 400 MSP
* UAV Wars - 200 MSP
and to think this is just what's available on launch day!
Everyone stop downloading the NXE so the servers get a break ...
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/932/932104p1.html
Lines
Best New Twist on Tetris Award
Developer: EdAndersenUK
Cost: 200
Tetris clones are a dime a dozen, so it's pretty exciting to find an inexpensive take on the classic puzzle game that does something new. Forget the idea of multiple shapes being fit together. Instead, every shape is a block. But each block has lines on it. Sometimes a straight line, sometimes an L and others are T lines. You need to maneuver the blocks so that you continue a line for as long as possible. The catch is that you can only rotate white blocks. The red blocks (which can't be rotated) are just as plentiful. It's a cool idea that works well. And, again, it's fairly inexpensive.
Check out Lines in action.
Write your own review.
Poker Ball
Best Balls
Developer: MarkcusD
Cost: 200
America has two great pastimes -- Poker and Arkanoid. Finally, those two passions have been merged. Poker Ball is Arkanoid (you know, the game where you knock a ball into a bunch of colored blocks) only the blocks have been replaced with poker cards. Every five cards you hit becomes a hand and the better the hand, the more points you earn. The physics aren't perfect (certainly not as good as Arkanoid), but the concept is solid. And the price is right. For a fun take on a classic, give Poker Ball a shot.
Write your own review.
Weapon of Choice
Best Game That Could Have Been on XBLA
Developer: Mommy's Best Games
Cost: 400
Weapon of Choice is a colorful 2D side-scrolling action game full of disgusting monsters, crazy characters and numerous nods to retro games and movies. And designer Nathan Fouts is a former developer at Insomniac Games, so he also knows a ridiculous gun when he sees it. And there are plenty to be found in Weapon of Choice. Some extend on chains and shoot around corners, others fling sawblades into the air, and there's even a device full of robotic arms strapped to your back that allows you to climb cliffs and scale surfaces at will. And even though it's incredibly strange and full of surprises, Weapon of Choice is also surprisingly well-made for an XNA indie title, and that's exactly what we're looking for from the fledgling service.
Check out a trailer for Weapon of Choice.
Write your own review.
Word Soup
The No Soup for You! Award
Developer: Fuzzy Bug
Cost: 400
Think of Word Soup as a newspaper word search meets Boggle. A grid is created with random letters. Each letter has a point value based on how challenging it is to use. (Ed. Note: You score way more than 11 points off the word quagmire.) You need to make words, connecting letters up, down, left, right or diagonal -- just so long as they are touching. As you use letters, the blocks are destroyed and the puzzle shifts. In this way you can actually use strategy to create small words to shift the puzzle in order to then make larger words. And if that doesn't get you excited, nothing in this damned world ever will.
Write your own review.
Cold Soup
In the Pit
Best Excuse for Being Too Lazy to Create Art for Your Game Award
Developer: luvcraft
Cost: 400
Game development has often been called a lazy man's profession. At least that's what it would be called if every game were like In the Pit. Here's the concept. You're a monster in a pit. People fall in and you eat them. Sounds cool, right? Ah, but there's a twist. You're blind. And that's why there are no graphics. This is an "audio" game, which features heavy panting and a monster going splish-splash. It doesn't work. And the "blind monster" angle is a pretty huge copout so as not to create any art. If you're going to have a black screen (they mastered the HUDless interface!) then at least have incredible audio. In the Pits is the pits.
Watch...err...listen to In the Pit.
Write your own review.
Even More Cold Soup
* Abstacked - 200 MSP
* Alien Ambush - 200 MSP
* Bad Atom Episode 1 - 200 MSP
* Beat IT! - 200 MSP
* Being - 200 MSP
* Colosseum - 800 MSP
* Cubage - 200 MSP
* Drift - 400 MSP
* DUOtrix - 400 MSP
* Fruit Attack - 400 MSP
* Fuel Depot 360 - 200 MSP
* Funky Punch XL - 400 MSP
* Galax-e-mail - 200 MSP
* Loot, Steal 'n Destroy - 400 MSP
* Organon - 200 MSP
* Rift - 200 MSP
* SMASHELL - 400 MSP
* SpaceCombat - 200 MSP
* Tail Gun Charlie - 400 MSP
* Totem - 400 MSP
* UAV Wars - 200 MSP
