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[EccentricDuck]

As I said in the "What projects are your currently working on?" thread, I've put my game up for review on Xbox Live Indie Games. It's been close to a year now that I've been working on making something for the Xbox, and I'm incredibly excited (and nervous). I'm sitting here at 4:30am in the morning, my heart's pumping hard, I feel wired, and I there's no way I can sleep. If anyone wants to review it or give it a try before it makes it to Xbox Live Indie Games, here's the [new] link:
http://catalog.create.msdn.com/en-US/Ga ... ff9&type=1

Also, here's the trailer for the game:


The game will be available for 80 microsoft points ($1 US) and I'll make a post here when it has made it past the review process.

Thanks for all your support and the insightful discussions on these forums. This place has been a really big help to me (and I'm sure it will continue to be in the future)!

[dandymcgee]

Awesome, congrats on getting it ready to go. Be sure to less us know when it gets approved.

[N64vSNES]

Looks awesome, good job man

[EdBoon]

going to review it tomorrow, it really is a cool game, the controls are excellent. hopefully it makes it through, i hope it the best. The multiplayer coding is excellent too, i know you spent a lot of time on it. Its always great when an actual game is released, with the sea of crap in XBLIG its like the coders arent gamers at all, just making a stupid interactive press one button as fast as you can when a prompt comes up, add a massage mode, and release it on live, it really takes away from indie game section. Most people dont even look there, and i cant say i blame them. The winter uprising was great for it, lots of attention. And even though 90% are crap (zombie milker, virtual fireplace) there are some excellent games in the indie section. Maybe you can review mine in a month ??
Congratulations man, hope it does well!

just out of curiosity, how big did your release end up being? did the final publish compress it at all?

[Ginto8]

It looks to me like light cycles in 3d, and it seems epic

[GroundUpEngine]

Wicked awesome man, nice work!

[TheBuzzSaw]

It looks to me like light cycles in 3d, and it seems epic

This is what I was going to say. It's TRON on a 3D grid! =D

[EccentricDuck]

Maybe you can review mine in a month ??

Definitely! I'm looking forward to seeing the new art assets you were talking about

just out of curiosity, how big did your release end up being? did the final publish compress it at all?

It was 13.5 MB. The grid that you play on is procedurally generated using 3D primitives (though it's not random, it's a constant size). I think that definitely helps. The package is bigger than the Windows version, although I think that the Xbox package stores all the assets in the package file where as the Windows version stores them in a separate content folder.

EDIT: Actually, scrap that, I'm re-submitting to fix a bug and actually realized I hadn't removed all unused assets. It's now 4.52 MB

[N64vSNES]

I really need to get a XBox......

But this looks awesomer than doodle man.

[cypher1554R]

Wow. I gotta say.. The game looks really nice.

Makes me feel like we're wasting our time with 'built from scratch Engines' lol

[eatcomics]

Wow, I am once more in need of an xbox live points card. If I get a job that will be on my shopping list, I will buy this and I will give a friend a dollar to buy Bop n' Pop :D

[CC Ricers]

Great work, it's kind of light cycles plus Snake in 3D. Wish I can afford an Xbox 360 right now so I can get into their indie scene.

Also, I dig the retro sound of the music, feels like something I once heard from a 90's racing game at the arcades.

[EccentricDuck]

Glad you like it :D

The music is by a person who goes by coda. Here's their site:
http://coda.s3m.us/

[EccentricDuck]

Looks like I can't submit for "review" for a week now - so it's sitting in playtest. Perhaps that's where I should have put it the first time though.

The only change I needed to make was to detect which PlayerIndex the active controller was associated with. I used a pop-up messageBox to detect which controller was being used and set it that way.

[EdBoon]

Yeah, I had read they are pretty strict about the whole 'control with any controller' thing. did you get a whole explanation from the reviewer or did he just list that one item that was wrong? Are you forced to put it through playtest? I am pretty sure I will put mine in playtest too. man that kinda sucks, getting all excited, even i was excited about it. everytime i get on ES forum i look at this thread and it makes me want to go home and work on the game.

Have you had any thought how you will distribute your 50 download keys? I highly recommend trying to give them out to indie reviewers, especially this game they will prob review it anyway just because its badass but those things really help a lot. Also , i know a few people that have sent kotaku reviewers emails about their indie games and they get small stories posted, the last game i saw the downloads for it after it was posted shot up a couple thousand in a few days. I mean its worth a shot. im guessing u wouldnt mind if more people downloaded it

i hope u left that secret glitch in where i could fly offscreen and shoot orbs at the cube, i will dominate online