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Xbox Indie Games Make Their Own Summer of Arcade - Winter Uprising (1st Week Dec)
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HadesGigas
Member
wwm0nkey said:
How'd THAT ever pass peer review?
Dark Octave
Banned
Hope the title isn't true about your game.wwm0nkey said:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Sounds like the sequel to Don't Shit Your Pants.HadesGigas said:
Parallax Scroll
Banned
I'm enjoying Epic Dungeon so far.
Monroeski said:
He thought "Custom Soundtracks" means you wrote your own music for the game, rather than the correct meaning: working well with the Guide's media player.
wwm0nkey said:
Aphelion 2 and Crossfire 2 are in playtest, but not review yet.
Soulcaster 2 is in review. In the review thread he gave us all the secret passwords to test but asked us not to make them public :lol
EDIT: Well, shit. Soulcaster 2 was pulled because of a problem if a Guitar controller is connected. Apparently this can affect every game. Looks like I'd better fix up my game too (which is luckily, or unluckily, not part of the uprising).
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
So what's the typical turnaround? It would have to be pretty quick to get it out this week.wwm0nkey said:ZP2KX is now in review according to the developer
Soulcaster 2 update:
As many of you know, Soulcaster II was in peer review this week. (This is XNAs central quality control, where other developers test your game and give it their stamp of approval if they cant find any objectionable content or crash the game.)
Last night I pulled the game from review after discovering a controller lockup bug, the Evil Guitar Bug that has claimed many lives so far. I thought I had tested for everything, but I missed this. Basically, if you have a guitar controller connected when you start a new game, if you use a player number higher than the guitars player number, the game wont be controllable. This is because the guitar is constantly sending non-neutral signals to the XBOX, and the game thinks the guitar has taken control and locks control to the guitar. The most common solution to this is a Press Start screen. If youve ever wondered why so many games have this screen, now you know one of the reasons!
There is a one week grace period before I can submit the game again for review, plus two days for it to be passed minimum, so the game is not going to make the first week deadline unfortunately. Nevertheless, I have the next week not only to fix this bug, but make improvements to the game in terms of balance and polish. I lost a lot of sleep scrambling to get things done by December 2nd, so maybe in my daze there were other issues lurking in the shadows that would mar the experience. Now I have time to find them and iron them out.
So, itll be another nine days. Bear with me and thanks for your patience!
Curses! Can't wait for this one. The first game was fantastic.Last night I pulled the game from review after discovering a controller lockup bug, the Evil Guitar Bug that has claimed many lives so far. I thought I had tested for everything, but I missed this. Basically, if you have a guitar controller connected when you start a new game, if you use a player number higher than the guitars player number, the game wont be controllable. This is because the guitar is constantly sending non-neutral signals to the XBOX, and the game thinks the guitar has taken control and locks control to the guitar. The most common solution to this is a Press Start screen. If youve ever wondered why so many games have this screen, now you know one of the reasons!
There is a one week grace period before I can submit the game again for review, plus two days for it to be passed minimum, so the game is not going to make the first week deadline unfortunately. Nevertheless, I have the next week not only to fix this bug, but make improvements to the game in terms of balance and polish. I lost a lot of sleep scrambling to get things done by December 2nd, so maybe in my daze there were other issues lurking in the shadows that would mar the experience. Now I have time to find them and iron them out.
So, itll be another nine days. Bear with me and thanks for your patience!
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Chu's Dynasty looks sweet for an Indie game.
Actually I think that while the mass delays hurt the initial wave of the IU, it may help sales in the long term as people keep checking back for the quality titles. 4 out so far isn't a bad start, and if another 4 come out this week that's a good rate.
I pimped them briefly on our food blog. We know gamers read it from the MW2/Halo things we did so I figured it was worth a shot as we average 1,000 hits a day.
I pimped them briefly on our food blog. We know gamers read it from the MW2/Halo things we did so I figured it was worth a shot as we average 1,000 hits a day.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
wwm0nkey said:
Godammit.Ska Studios Twitter said:
Chu's Dynasty is finally out , 240 points: US Marketplace Page
Dark Octave
Banned
That sucks about the guitar bug. I heard a similar one caused by the memory card.
Is there a check list anywhere that has all the most common bugs to look out for?
Is there a check list anywhere that has all the most common bugs to look out for?
randomlyrossy
Member
Over the last few days I've been working on a feature (/cheapplug) about the Uprising for XBLAFans, a site I recently started writing for. Honestly aside from skimming a few news stories I didn't know much about the games involved before I started looking them up for the feature.
I have to say some of them are looking very impressive, the RPGs especially. I've already lost a couple of hours to Epic Dungeon, it's so bloody addictive for how simple it is.
Decimation X3 is wonderfully manic, as are most of the shooters that have been released so far.
It's a shame so many of the games ended up getting delayed but at least they've extended the event to the entire month, although they don't appear to have promoted that fact.
I have to say some of them are looking very impressive, the RPGs especially. I've already lost a couple of hours to Epic Dungeon, it's so bloody addictive for how simple it is.
Decimation X3 is wonderfully manic, as are most of the shooters that have been released so far.
It's a shame so many of the games ended up getting delayed but at least they've extended the event to the entire month, although they don't appear to have promoted that fact.
sixteen-bit
Member
I saw a video for Chu's Dynasty and it looked cool. I will be queuing up the trial version.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Here we go again. If it fails again then someone deserves to get coal in their stocking for Christmas. And by stocking I mean rectum. And by coal I mean red hot coals.Ska Studios Twitter Feed said:
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
If it fails, there's probably a reason for it.SapientWolf said:
Blame the devs, not the peer reviewers.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The term "someone" is vague enough to include devs.Princess Skittles said:
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Tocuhé!SapientWolf said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Microsoft needs to allow Achievements for Indie Games. So much more money to be had by doing that.
I'd buy 10 Indie Games right now if they had Achievements.
I'd buy 10 Indie Games right now if they had Achievements.
FirstInHell
Banned
Domino Theory said:
It wouldn't take long for people to exploit this and create "Achievement Generator" games to drive sales.
randomlyrossy
Member
FirstInHell said:
There's already a peer review system, it would be pretty easy to weed those sorts of thing out.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I think enjoying a game for its own sake is an achievement in and of itself these days.Domino Theory said:
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
randomlyrossy said:
The peer review system makes sure the games don't crash and that they follow the rules. The problem with "easy achievement" games is that it would take personal judgement on the part of the reviewers to determine if something were an abuse or not. What's too easy? My understanding is that MS specifically tries to take personal judgement out of the process. That way games can't be blocked from coming out just because they are shitty (but maybe they should!).
Dr. Zoidberg said:
See the New Doritos games.
One is a great game with TERRIBLE ach for things you'd never do in regular gameplay (bounce 10 times, swing 10 times)
One is a poor game with really easy ach that require trying all the modes and multiplayer with friends.
Neither is a great way to approach the system and both devalue ach and the games they are attached to.
Crash Course in particular could have far more longevity and cross player appeal if the Ach were targeted at the different levels of medals, and getting 4 player multiplayer races going (which is where the fun is).
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
James Silva got his Christmas wish. ZP2KX just passed peer review.
Dr Zhivago
Member
Crossfire 2 is great, bit easy though.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
ZP2KX is out: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/P...000000-0000-4000-8000-000058550732?cid=search
According to the PA forums, Aphelion Episode 2 is next on the queue.
According to the PA forums, Aphelion Episode 2 is next on the queue.
The last update, from last week: http://zeboyd.com/2010/12/06/cthulh...report-indie-games-winter-uprising-extension/Kusagari said:
No update since then, but despite his time estimates that reads like a ways from being done. Hopefully soon, though.