"Sometimes when I’m bored, the Xbox is on, and I reach Opus Dei levels of masochism, I pop into the Xbox Live Indie Game Marketplace to see what new ways people have found to cannibalize their fellow indie game developers’ games and construct them into some kind of gaming version of a human centipede, fusing together zombies, Minecraft, Internet memes, and Avatars in a way that isn’t particularly flattering to any of them.
That’s when I came across ArcadeCraft. Judging from the name and the marketplace it’s on, I immediately figured it’s some kind of ersatz Minecraft (that’s the “craft” part down) and that it randomly makes some kind of empty references to older arcade games (and that’s the “arcade” part. Eat your heart out, Nancy Drew.).
Turns out I was wrong on both counts. It’s actually a tycoon-type simulation game where you build your own arcade."
Time for another Big Show! Phil Fogg and Tom Towers waste 3 hours discussing the pitfalls of procedural generation, other podcasts, The Road (The Last of US), innuendo and cockney rhyming slang.
A few games might even be discussed, too: Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Arcadecraft, Shovel Knight, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, and the one we've all been waiting for: Future Cop L.A.P.D.
GamesAsylum: "The fact that the greatest Xbox Indie games are buried under tat like Baby Maker Extreme and Dont B Nervous Talking 2 Girls [sic] makes their discovery seem all that more special.
Some damning praise for the way Microsoft manages the service, there. Perhaps we should be glad that Microsoft has never really shown any interest in capitalising on the Xbox 360′s indie service. That said, it wouldn’t be an entirely bad thing – those deserving of more than just a postage-stamp sized advert on the dashboard may have ended up receiving a bit more press coverage.
To make finding those elusive hidden gems easier, we’ve rounded-up five of the best"
Twinfinite sits down with Trivia or Die! creator Kris Steele to discuss indie games, the Ouya and more.
