Indie Games Invade Xbox 360
Today the New Xbox Experience is finally upon us, and after I set it up and made my avatar I decided to wander around the new settings and features for a while. While exploring the marketplace I came across a new feature that I hadn't heard much about: Community Games. Community Games are indie games made using Microsoft's XNA toolset that haven't gone through the whole Microsoft certification process, but were ranked high enough by other members of the XNA community. There's already over 30 of them available, all of which have a free trial version as well as a full version with pricing similar to XBLA games. There are some really good and interesting games here, and I highly recommend checking out the selection. I have already fallen absolutely in love with the game Artoon for it's beautiful style and In The Pit which has you playing as a blind monster in a pit (the screen is completely black at all times) hunting and eating victims based purely on sound. Some other ones I highly recommend checking out are Being, Bloc, Blow, and Weapon of Choice.
Hit the jump for a full list of the Community Games available so far, as well as videos when available. And after you've looked at them online, check them all out on your 360 and post your own favorites.
Abstacked
Alien Ambush
Artoon
Bad Atom Episode 1
Beat IT!
Being
Biology Battle
Bloc
Blow
Brain Party
Colosseum
Cubage
Drift
DUOtrix
Endless Swarm
Fruit Attack
Fuel Depot 360
Funky Punch XL
Galax-e-mail
In The Pit
Lines
Loot, Steal 'n Destroy
Organon
Poker Ball
Rift
Smashell
SpaceCombat
Tail Gun Charlie
Totem
UAV Wars
Weapon of Choice
Word Soup
NaviFairy
Posted to Video Games on 19 November 2008
· Comments (3)
Other stuff like this: 360, community games, indie, NXE
But the important question.. Where is Jelly Car!? :(
I don't know why Jelly Car hasn't appeared in the Community Games yet, but it's available as a free app for iPhone.
Just so I'm clear on this.
These Indie games (and Netflix) are American only, right?
I haven't seen them anywhere on Marketplace.