NegativeGamer.com reviews all this week's Xbox Live Community Games.
Eurogamer writes: "The XNA tree is over a year old now, and has already borne the fruit of Weapon of Choice, Biology Battle and Easy Golf. But what other succulent delights are hidden amongst its lush foliage? Armed with my special community hat and a strong intention of inverting media distribution pyramids, I peeked under its ever-spreading branches.
Content is coming thick and fast now, with regular weekly updates, and the catalogue has burgeoned considerably. What you see here is merely what jumped out at me and proved to be enjoyable, and each game offers either a time- or feature-limited demo, so there's no excuse not to get your hands dirty and try a few for yourselves."
The principles of Carrum are very similar to pool, snooker or billiards (without the cues). The objective is to pot all your Carrum pieces before your opponent, using skill, determination and a little bit of luck.
Hi guys,
I'm the author of Carrum, and the game is going through final pre-release testing at the moment. We hope it will be on XBox Live Marketplace for the first weekend of May. I'll let you know as and when it goes to market. It will cost 400 MS Points. I've attached the YouTube Teaser Trailer we released last week - more trailers are on the way so keep a lookout!
Regards,
Mike
Carrum has now been released to XBox LIVE Markertplace, and is available for 400 of your shiniest MS Points. Hope you like the game!
Regards,
Mike
M, I wish I could play go. Might be worth picking this one up... maybe.
I know I'm bound to say this because I wrote one of the games NegativeGamer marked as "no fun to play", but honestly, against GO! drying paint is fun. I always get the impression from NegativeGamer than they make their mind up before even playing the game, and spend about 6 minutes playing a game before writing it up. Several times in testing I had the comment "I thought this was something c**p like GO!, it's actually a very playable game" so make of that what you will ;0)
Regards,
Mike