While getting a game published on Xbox LIVE Indie Games may be easy, getting that game noticed can be a much harder task. Hidden gems like Cthulhu Saves the World and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1 can be quickly buried in a sea of dating and massage simulators. That’s why the independent games community banded together this summer to showcase its best and brightest during the Indie Games Summer Uprising event.
Hardcore Gamer: By paying the current minimum of $4, you'll get Dead Pixels, Chester, Antipole, LaserCat, Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos, Little Racers Street, SpyLeaks, and Orbitron: Revolution. Every game activates on Desura, while Dead Pixels is available on Steam and Chester, Smooth Operators, LRS, and SpyLeaks are on Greenlight. A mystery game will unlock at some point, and those who pay $8 or more will get the OST for GunSlugs, which would seem to indicate that GunSlugs will be the mystery game.
After the Mass Effect 2 bundle provided by Indie Gala -which was bought massively by the public- they decided to take a long rest. Now it’s June, and Indie Gala is back better than before, bringing tons of games for a low price onto your computer.
Indie games are normally known and seen as games that raise the bar in video game creativity. Brilliant Blue-G’s latest title, Chester, a game that could have been downloaded on Indie Game Stand for free is the title that most if not all indie developers should look to as a role model in terms of creativity. The title is a platformer that mixes not only strategy, but also RPG elements and cartoonish art design.
So many Indie titles have failed to light up sales-wise
Don't think I've ever even bought one.
Yeah, I think the rise of free-to-play games on the PC and awesome inexpensive games on mobile devices are going to force not just XBLA, but all console marketplaces to change how they do business or die.
What they need is some quality-control. Not too stringent, but just enough to stave off the developers who conceptualize, program, and submit a new game to the platform every week.
I don't know how Xbox Live can make it anymore appealing. I really think MS should just adopt Steam and let Valve take over...
...that or just revamp the marketplace to be as good as Steam (lots of cheap games (like 1 dollar or 2 dollars), have more specials ($10 for a pack of random games), just everything you can do to promote the use of the system.
I would not be ashamed of MS if they copied Steam outright...