It's every garage band's dream: You pour your heart, soul and savings into recording an album, set it loose on the Internet for fans to download, and one day a major record label comes knocking on your door with a lucrative contract in hand.
There's a similar phenomenon going on in the video game business, with indie game designers drawing the attention of corporate giants like Microsoft and Sony, giving their games a chance to be purchased and played by thousands upon thousands of fans.
Toronto's Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard are the latest Canadian game designers to hook up with the bigs, in this case Microsoft's pay-to-play Xbox Live Arcade service. Their award-winning game N, which has been available as a free PC and Mac download for more than three years, will soon find a home on Xbox Live Arcade as the souped-up N+.
The Never Yak recently had the idea that everyone who works with Nintendo Link should write a small piece on their favorite game soundtracks, and this is such a fun and eclectic collection.
N++ by Metanet Software is one of the greatest platformers of all time. Don't believe us? Check out Jason Capp's Nindie Spotlight to find out why!
"In all, 131 games were speedrun, and the vast majority of these events included the current record holder for fastest time. One runner, Krankdud, came away with world record times in both of their events: Mega Man Zero 2 on Sunday and a cooperative run in N++ with AND4H on Wednesday.
Here are, in chronological order, 10 of the best runs over the past week" - Owen S. Good, Polgyon
the problem with GDQ is that nintendo has too much space and playstation games are not so prominent
I remember playing this before, it did have pretty good physics for a flash game, I don't know what they are going to do to make it worth purchasing though.
I played it about right when it hit the site. It was neat, had some interesting animations, but I don't know how much they plan on charging for it. I'd say like $3 tops.