It isn't often that IGN spotlights an XNA Indie Game on its own. Usually they give the games their due in their weekly roundup. But sometimes, just sometimes, a game comes along that demands more attention. That is the case with the recently released I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1. Though the mechanics are as simple as any twin-stick shooter like Geometry Wars, the game is somehow about as insane as its title.
10 games. 10 dollars. Jen gives her opinion on which Xbox Live Arcade games are worth your four quarters.
Eurogamer writes: "The Xbox Live Indie Games channel is now over a year old, and more than 700 games have made their nests amongst its nurturing branches. While it would be nice to say that the service has blossomed over time, that wouldn't be entirely accurate. The good stuff is arguably better than ever, but there's still an awful lot of pointless dross clogging up the shop window with joypad massages and other daft widgets.
There's still a lack of the sort of truly innovative games that sum up the homebrew ethos - the Canabalts, Darwinias and Samorosts - with most indie devs still preferring to trial their wares as Flash games on websites rather than making use of Mr Microsoft's indoor market hall. Of course, when even the best-selling Indie Games are apparently only shifting a thousand copies or less, you can hardly blame them."
DIYgamer.com writes: "DIYgamer only launched in October, but we have been busy playing independent games all year long. As the year winds down and news comes to a crawl as people head off for the holidays, we'd like to share what we found to be the best, most innovative, most interesting and all around entertaining indie games that came out this year. Our selection process was simple. Each writer here at the site was asked to submit their top five games of the year. We chose our game of the year based on the title with the highest number of appearances in those lists and the runner-up would be the one with the next most appearances. The rest all fall under honorable mention in alphabetical order, as each one struck us in a way to remain memorable and worthy of a top five of 2009 list."
Is to save it until you have enought dollars to buy The xbox 360