XNA Community Games Thread--Check out OP for January's Games, Top 10, & Master List

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January's Games:
Air Legends (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/3/09)...X
A.I.R. Play (Sports & Recreation) Price: 400 MS Points (1/7/09)...X
Altar of Gems (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (1/8/09)...X
Bat-L-Blocks (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
BounceCrazy (Sports & Recreation) Price: 200 MS Points (1/26/09)...X
Chromatism (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/13/09)...X
*Don't Fear The Sweeper (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/28/09)...X
Exhaust (Racing & Flying) Price: 400 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
*Fields - Soldier of Time (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (1/27/09)...X
Fishbowl (Family) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Foosball For Two (Sports & Recreation) Price: 200 MS Points (1/11/09)...X
*A Game of Tennis (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
*Grid Chasers (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
 Groov (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/9/09)...X
Happyface (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/3/09)...X
Landmark (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/4/09)...X
Ocean Scenes (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
The Perfect Match (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (1/18/09)...X
Planet Panic! (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (1/1/09)...X
Poker Squares (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
RC-AirSim (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Revenge of the Ball (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (1/26/09)...X
*Rumble Massage (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (1/27/09)...X
*Simply HangMan (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/29/09)...X
*Slime Volleyball, 2.5D (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
Sol Invasion (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/21/09)...X
Sudoku X (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/7/09)...X
Toxic (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/18/09)...X
Valhyre (Shooter) Price: 800 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
World Revolution (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/6/09)...X

February's Games:
*Brain Deluxe (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 800 MS Points (2/3/09)...X
*A Wizard's Odyssey (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (2/1/09)...X

Top Ten List at XBLARatings.com as of 1/24/09
1. Classicard (Card & Board) Price: 400 MS Points (11/22)...X
2. Biology Battle (Action & Adventure) Price: 800 MS Points (11/19)...X
3. CarneyVale Showtime (Platformer) Price: 400 MS Points (12/22)...X
4. Blow (Other) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
5. CaveIn - Miner Rescue Team (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/17)...X
6. Ultratron (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/25)...X
7. Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp (Platformer) Price: 200 MS Points (12/26)...X
8. Weapon of Choice (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
9. Easy Golf (Sports & Recreation) Price: 800 MS Points (11/20)...X
10. DUOtrix (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X

Master List:
Title (Genre) ............................. Price: (release date)....RATE IT!
Aaron's Ping-Pong (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (11/24)...X
 Abstacked (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Aceball (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (12/29)...X
Adventurer Pets HD (Action & Adventure)Price: 200 MS Points (12/6)...X
Air Legends (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/3/09)...X
A.I.R. Play (Sports & Recreation) Price: 400 MS Points (1/7/09)...X
A Kitchen Sink War (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/27)...X
 Alien Ambush (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Altar of Gems (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (1/8/09)...X
Amazing Wizard (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/31)...X
Arriba! (Educational) Price: 200 MS Points (11/22)...X
 Artoon (Platformer) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Audiball (Music) Price: 200 MS Points (11/20)...X
Bad Atom Episode 1 (Action & Adventure)Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Bat-L-Blocks (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
Beat It! (Family) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Beat it: The Christmas Edition (Music) Price: 200 MS Points (12/24)...X
 Being (Platformer) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Biology Battle (Action & Adventure) Price: 800 MS Points (11/19)...X
Bloc (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Block Fight! (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (12/25)...X
Blow (Other) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Bomber Boing (Fighting) Price: 400 MS Points (12/10)...X
BounceCrazy (Sports & Recreation) Price: 200 MS Points (1/26/09)...X
*Brain Deluxe (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 800 MS Points (2/3/09)...X
Brain Party (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
CarneyVale Showtime (Platformer) Price: 400 MS Points (12/22)...X
CaveIn - Miner Rescue Team (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/17)...X
Chromatism (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/13/09)...X
Classicard (Card & Board) Price: 400 MS Points (11/22)...X
The Collector (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (12/29)...X
Colosseum (Fighting) Price: 800 MS Points (11/19)...X
Constrictor (Other) Price: 400 MS Points (12/29)...X
Cosmos (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (12/15)...X
 Couples Sudoku (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/8)...X
Crystal Crush (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20)...X
 Cubage (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Dokee the Dog and the Musical Rain (Family) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20)...X
*Don't Fear The Sweeper (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/28/09)...X
DUOtrix (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Drift (Other) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Dr. Popper (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/19)...X
 Easy Golf (Sports & Recreation) Price: 800 MS Points (11/20)...X
Endless Swarm (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Exhaust (Racing & Flying) Price: 400 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
Exisled (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (11/21)...X
EZMuze Break and House edition (music) Price: 200 MS Points (12/19)...X
FallDown (Action & Adventure)Price: 400 MS Points (12/20)...X
 Fatal Abyss (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20)...X
*Fields - Soldier of Time (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (1/27/09)...X
Fireplace (Other) Price: 400 MS Points (12/21)...X
Fishbowl (Family) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Foosball For Two (Sports & Recreation) Price: 200 MS Points (1/11/09)...X
Fruit Attack (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Fuel Depot 360 (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Funky Punch XL (Fighting) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Galax-e-mail (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
*A Game of Tennis (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
Garrett the Slug (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (11/21)...X
Golden Royal Blackjack (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (12/5)...X
GraphSpacer (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (12/17)...X
*Grid Chasers (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
Groov (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/9/09)...X
Happyface (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/3/09)...X
Head Banger(music) Price: 200 MS Points (11/29)...X
Hexothermic (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/19)...X
 Hive (strategy and simulation) Price: 200 MS Points (11/28)...X
Indirian Solitaire (Card & Board) Price: 400 MS Points (12/29)...X
In the Pit (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp (Platformer) Price: 200 MS Points (12/26)...X
Joint Strike Future (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (12/29)...X
Ladybird Galaxy (Action & Adventure)Price: 200 MS Points (12/5)...X
Landmark (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/4/09)...X
Light Catcher (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (12/15)...X
Lines (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Loot, Steal 'n Destroy (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
Machiavelli's Ascent (Platformer) Price: 200 MS Points (12/29)...X
Max The Frog (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/27)...X
 Melvin's Meltdown (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/23)...X
MemoStomp (Family) Price: 400 MS Points (11/24)...X
Monaco 360 - retro racing (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (11/29)...X
No Frills Sudoku (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (11/20)...X
Nuke Your Neighbor (Card & Board) Price: 400 MS Points (12/31)...X
Ocean Scenes (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Oh Snap (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (11/24)...X
Organon (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Pain Ball (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/20)...X
 Pastry Wars (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/24)...X
The Perfect Match (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (1/18/09)...X
Petank Party (Sports & Recreation) Price: 800 MS Points (12/6)...X
Planet Delta (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20)...X
Planet Panic! (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (1/1/09)...X
Plasma Spheres (Platformer) Price: 400 MS Points (11/30)...X
Poker Ball (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Poker Squares (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (1/14/09)...X
Puzzle DeFusion (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (12/23)...X
Quarx (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (12/29)...X
RC-AirSim (Racing & Flying) Price: 200 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Revenge of the Ball (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (1/26/09)...X
reTension (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (12/28)...X
Retro One (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/8)...X
 Rift (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
RPaints (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (12/5)...X
*Rumble Massage (Other) Price: 200 MS Points (1/27/09)...X
Satellites (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (11/21)...X
 Sea Blast (Action & Adventure)Price: 200 MS Points (12/15)...X
Shed (Card & Board) Price: 200 MS Points (12/5)...X
Shoot The Rocks (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (12/27)...X
*Simply HangMan (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/29/09)...X
sin(Surfing) (Sports & Recreation) Price: 200 MS Points (11/20)...X
*Slime Volleyball, 2.5D (Classics) Price: 200 MS Points (1/31/09)...X
Smashell (Platformer) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Snake360 (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20)...X
Snowman's Dilemma (Family) Price: 200 MS Points (11/22)...X
Solicheck (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (12/30)...X
Sol Invasion (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/21/09)...X
SpaceCombat(Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
StarField (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/20)...X
 Starpilot (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/22)...X
Sudoku X (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/7/09)...X
Swords & Monsters(role playing) Price: 200 MS Points (11/28)...X
 Tail Gun Charlie(Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Torino-X (strategy and simulation) Price: 200 MS Points (12/5)...X
Totem (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
 Tower Revolution (strategy and simulation) Price: 400 MS Points (12/6)...X
Toxic (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 MS Points (1/18/09)...X
Type Attacks (Educational) Price: 200 MS Points (12/18)...X
UAV Wars (Action & Adventure) Price: 200 MS Points (11/19)...X
Ultratron (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/25)...X
Valhyre (Shooter) Price: 800 MS Points (1/20/09)...X
Weapon of Choice (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
*A Wizard's Odyssey (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (2/1/09)...X
Word Soup (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 400 MS Points (11/19)...X
World Molder (Platformer) Price: 200 MS Points (12/6)...X
World Revolution (Shooter) Price: 200 MS Points (1/6/09)...X
Writer's Block (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (12/19)...X
 ZSX4 Guitarpocalypse (Fighting) Price: 200 MS Points (11/24)...X

Total Games: 135



Games Made By Cags:

Audiball(Music) Price: 200 MS Points (11/20) by Link42
Biology Battle (Action & Adventure) Price: 800 MS Points (11/19) by novaleaf
Fatal Abyss (Shooter) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20) by JJJJJS (who has posted some videos here.)
Snake360 (Action & Adventure) Price: 400 MS Points (11/20) by yyr


F.A.Q.'s
Achievements:
Live Community Games do not have achievements that count toward your gamerscore.

Demos:
Each game includes a "demo" that are time constricted trials that are often too short to make a decision on the game. It was four minutes long, but now it is eight. Source.

Pricing:

How much will Community Games sell for? Creators can chose to sell games for 200, 400 or 800 MS points. The maximum size limit for 200 point games is 50 MB. For 400 and 800 points games the max size is 150 MB.

Do I have to be online to play Community Games?
You have to be online to start your Community Game. After you start the game you can go offline. This is said to be so Microsoft can verify that you are of an appropriate age to play the game you selected.

Will I get updates for community games?
As of right now there is no way for community game creators to update their game without posting an updated version of their game and people downloading the updated version.

Why don't any of the community games have leaderboards?
Outside of online play, XNA creators cannot send or receive information through their game. This means no leaderboards.

Edit:
[quote name='novaleaf']Hey m3talst0rm, you are wrong about the "no leaderboards"... well kind of wrong.

My game (Biology Battle) has fully functional leaderboards, for XBox Live Gold members at least (sorry silver members, msft wont let me give them to you).

Now for the obvious question: "WTF, msft said no leaderboards!!! how does Biology BAttle do it?!?"

Well I'm a developer, so I wrote a gurrilla solution. My leaderboard is all done via P2P networking. When you get a highscore, it connects to all available players and sync's the topscore data. I leave my xbox running as a psudo-server, to make sure that everyone who plays can sync up with at least one xbox (that has a full record of the topscores)

Kind of unfortunate, but msft made me rename the "Leaderboard" to be "Global Topscore list" under threat of delisting my game.. and same thing with achievements (renamed to Trophies... i guess sony will sue me now)
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Interesting Links:

*General Info:
http://creators.xna.com/en-us/XboxLIVECommunityGames

http://catalog.xna.com/en-GB/gamescatalog.aspx

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/XBLCG_is_Live has a nice article with a brief description of all the launch games.

D4rkewolfe says: For info on the games you can go here http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/ga...talog.aspx?d=7


*Reviews and Opinions:

Quality reviews but only over the demos:
XNPlay: Xna Community Games News and Reviews


Community reviews:
http://www.xblaratings.com/xna-ratings

http://gameroutfit.com/wordpress/

Articles:
XNA Community Games - What You'll Be Playing On Day 1, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
http://www.gamerbytes.com/2008/11/today_in_xna_snakes_and_crysta.php

Destructiod XNA Community Review Challenge....give them points and they'll review your game.

Looks like thegamereviews.com is putting together a segment called "From the Garage" that promises to "steer clear of the garbage and point you in the direction of treasure" when reviewing community games. Their first review is of Biology Battle by novaleaf. Check it out here.


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it was mine as well!. Last year when they released the demos during E3 i believe my 360 had just RROD so i missed that.. of course my 360 is about to die again, but at least I get to try some xna games before it completely craps out on me.
 
I'm trying to play Weapon of Choice and it's telling me that my parent should check my profile and make sure I'm not restricted.

I called my mom and she got scared cause she had no idea what I was talking about.

j.k...how do I fix this? I couldn't find a profile setting for it.
 
If you could possibly find a link for the games or some sort of short description for each one, that would be fantastic.

Excellent work, OP. Looking forward to these as well.
 
A few of the community games mention having achievements, but are they real ones or just in-game ones that don't add to your gamerscore?
 
I really dig Blow. Its a simple puzzle game where you place fans around the game board so it blows bubbles through gates while missing obstacles. I think its worth the 400 points

Also, I don't dig the fact that there are quite a few charging 800 points out of the gate. They suck but I hope this isn't a sign to come with more and more people trying to charge $10 for their game
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']A few of the community games mention having achievements, but are they real ones or just in-game ones that don't add to your gamerscore?[/quote]

On the xna site, in the faqs, it says: Can I give out Achievements and Gamerscore in my community-created title? No. Achievements are reserved for commercial games.

So, I would assume that the mentioned achievements are just in-game ones that do not affect your gamerscore.
 
Here are the prices. For info on the games you can go here http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/catalog.aspx?d=7

Abstacked Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Alien Ambush Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Artoon Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Bad Atom Episode 1 Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Beat It! Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Being Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Biology Battle Price: 800 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Bloc Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Blow Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Brain Party Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Colosseum Price: 800 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Cubage Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Drift Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
DOUtrix Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Endless Swarm Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Fruit Attack Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Fuel Depot 360 Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Funky Punch XL Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Galax-e-mail Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
In the Pit Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Lines Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Loot, Steal 'n Destroy Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Organon Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Poker Ball Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Rift Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Smashell Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
SpaceCombat Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Tail Gun Charlie Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Totem Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
UAV Wars Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Weapon of Choice Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Word Soup Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
 
[quote name='D4rkewolfe']Here are the prices. For info on the games you can go here http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/catalog.aspx?d=7

Abstacked Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Alien Ambush Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Artoon Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Bad Atom Episode 1 Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Beat It! Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Being Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Biology Battle Price: 800 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Bloc Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Blow Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Brain Party Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Colosseum Price: 800 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Cubage Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Drift Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
DOUtrix Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Endless Swarm Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Fruit Attack Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Fuel Depot 360 Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Funky Punch XL Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Galax-e-mail Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
In the Pit Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Lines Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Loot, Steal 'n Destroy Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Organon Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Poker Ball Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Rift Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Smashell Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
SpaceCombat Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Tail Gun Charlie Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Totem Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
UAV Wars Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Weapon of Choice Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)
Word Soup Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/19)[/quote]


Awesome! Thanks a ton.
 
Not trying to knock on the devs for these games, but of the 8 or so games I played, I felt like I could have played very similar flash games for free.
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']I really dig Blow. Its a simple puzzle game where you place fans around the game board so it blows bubbles through gates while missing obstacles. I think its worth the 400 points

Also, I don't dig the fact that there are quite a few charging 800 points out of the gate. They suck but I hope this isn't a sign to come with more and more people trying to charge $10 for their game[/quote]

Blow sounds fun....I'm going to download the demo and see if I can get into it.

I only see two titles that cost the 800 points. Now, from what I understand, there were more titles up for those in the nxe preview but some have been taken down (I could be completely wrong about that.) Is that the case or were those two 800 point games so horrible for you that it seemed like quite a few ;)

From the previews I have played the price points seem reasonable...but I haven't tried the 800 point games yet.
 
[quote name='m3talst0rm']
I only see two titles that cost the 800 points. Now, from what I understand, there were more titles up for those in the nxe preview but some have been taken down (I could be completely wrong about that.) Is that the case or were those two 800 point games so horrible for you that it seemed like quite a few ;)

From the previews I have played the price points seem reasonable...but I haven't tried the 800 point games yet.[/QUOTE]

Just me thinking a couple of games being more expensive than they really are....I'm looking at you Weapon Of Choice and In The Pit
 
[quote name='JJSP']Loot, Steal, Destroy looks fun. Has anyone given it a shot?[/quote]

I downloaded the trial, but it said I needed two players to play and I didn't see any option to use someone from live. I deleted it.

I've had some fun with bloc. I'll probably purchase it (only 200 points). You control a circle that is divided into four quadrants: yellow, red, green, and blue. You move this circle around and try to shoot blocks that are crossing the screen. The challenge is that the blocks are the same color as the quadrants and you must shoot the block with its color to destroy it. If you run into a block you loose a quadrant. You can gain powerups....one will allow you to destroy any block no matter the quadrant you shoot it with (kind of a super star). Pretty fun IMO.
 
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out of what was released yesterday, these are the ones I'm digging

Artoon
Being
Biology Battle
Blow
Colosseum
DOUtrix
Endless Swarm
Galax-E-Mail
Lines
Pokerball
 
I had fun with the little time I had with the demos of Blow, Weapon of Choice, DOUtrix, Smashell and Galax-e-mail. I'm gonna get the 200 point titles in that list for sure. I'm not digging the fact that you have to be online to play community games, If I purchase a game I want to beable to take my system to a friends house and play these games without worrying about a internet connection.
 
10 games added to the community games marketplace.


*Audiball Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Crystal Crush Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Dokee the Dog and the Musical Rain Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Easy Golf Price: 800 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Fatal Abyss Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*No Frills Sudoku Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Pain Ball Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Planet Delta Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*sin(Surfing) Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/20)
*Snake360 Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/20)
 
I'm the dev of Biology Battle, you guys should check it out if you are a fan of shmups or want a party game (there are 12 multiplayer games in it)

the demo restrictions msft puts on me are pretty lame tho (they force 4 minute demos on all CG developers). But I hope you can get a feel for the game after a few tries. i'm sure you'll find it worth while.
 
Hi, I'm the developer of Snake360. I actually announced it here a few weeks back.

The trial mode of the game currently crashes when the 4-minute time limit expires. The full version is unaffected. We were unable to test the "time expired" screen because it doesn't show up outside of the final, published version! =\

I have already submitted a revised version that should hopefully fix the problem, but it won't be up until at least Sunday. I just wanted to inform as many people as possible.

Please enjoy Snake360...I really think it's one of the best experiences on Community Games!
 
I bought Lines. Awesome little puzzle game though the way that the leaderboards is handled sucks. They give you a code that you have to enter at their site (can community games have actual leaderboards through Live?).
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']I bought Lines. Awesome little puzzle game though the way that the leaderboards is handled sucks. They give you a code that you have to enter at their site (can community games have actual leaderboards through Live?).[/quote]

Check out the FAQs in the 1st post;)

Short answer: No leaderboards for community games...in fact I read the lines' leaderboards are as good as they get.

Something else that sucks: You have to be online for these games to play.
 
Hey, I'm one of the developers of Audiball. It can be played with a guitar controller, but a regular Xbox controller works just as well. Please check out the trial and let me know what you think!
 
[quote name='m3talst0rm']Check out the FAQs in the 1st post;)

Short answer: No leaderboards for community games...in fact I read the lines' leaderboards are as good as they get.

Something else that sucks: You have to be online for these games to play.[/quote]

Hey m3talst0rm, you are wrong about the "no leaderboards"... well kind of wrong.

My game (Biology Battle) has fully functional leaderboards, for XBox Live Gold members at least (sorry silver members, msft wont let me give them to you).

Now for the obvious question: "WTF, msft said no leaderboards!!! how does Biology BAttle do it?!?"

Well I'm a developer, so I wrote a gurrilla solution. My leaderboard is all done via P2P networking. When you get a highscore, it connects to all available players and sync's the topscore data. I leave my xbox running as a psudo-server, to make sure that everyone who plays can sync up with at least one xbox (that has a full record of the topscores)

Kind of unfortunate, but msft made me rename the "Leaderboard" to be "Global Topscore list" under threat of delisting my game.. and same thing with achievements (renamed to Trophies... i guess sony will sue me now)

Anyway, I think it's OK, i understand their marketing point of view.

My big problem with the community games is the restrictive 4 minute trial msft forces all us developers to have. I wrote Biology Battle to have a richly featured, fun 15 minute trial experience. How the hell am I going to convince people my game is worth 800 points (the highest price of all the community games mind you), if I only have 4 minutes total before the player gets booted to the dashboard... it's a tough sell in 4 minutes. So far, I havent heard anyone say "Biology Battle isnt worth the price!" but I have heard people say "I'm not sure, is Biology Battle worth the price?"

Anyway, I know I rant, but this game cost me quite a bit to write (100k USD over 1 year), so I need to be able to recoup my costs if i want to keep writing games... and I admit I'm a bit paniced about the trial mode restriction :cry:
 
So it's been several days now.... What are the good games to check out? I downloaded snake because I remembered someone here made it. Haven't tried it yet though.. Will check out a few more posted here but yea i'm lazy and it takes me forever to check out a "normal" demo usually unless it's something i'm already looking forward to.
 
novaleaf, I really dig your game. I'll be picking it up sometime soon. Its pretty much like what I was hoping at least one mode in Geometry Wars 2 would be.

I do have a question and you don't have to give specific numbers but since it is one of the 800 point games, I'm curious if you could kill my cat by telling me on how well its been selling?
 
[quote name='novaleaf']Hey m3talst0rm, you are wrong about the "no leaderboards"... well kind of wrong.

My game (Biology Battle) has fully functional leaderboards, for XBox Live Gold members at least (sorry silver members, msft wont let me give them to you).

Now for the obvious question: "WTF, msft said no leaderboards!!! how does Biology BAttle do it?!?"

Well I'm a developer, so I wrote a gurrilla solution. My leaderboard is all done via P2P networking. When you get a highscore, it connects to all available players and sync's the topscore data. I leave my xbox running as a psudo-server, to make sure that everyone who plays can sync up with at least one xbox (that has a full record of the topscores)

Kind of unfortunate, but msft made me rename the "Leaderboard" to be "Global Topscore list" under threat of delisting my game.. and same thing with achievements (renamed to Trophies... i guess sony will sue me now)

Anyway, I think it's OK, i understand their marketing point of view.

My big problem with the community games is the restrictive 4 minute trial msft forces all us developers to have. I wrote Biology Battle to have a richly featured, fun 15 minute trial experience. How the hell am I going to convince people my game is worth 800 points (the highest price of all the community games mind you), if I only have 4 minutes total before the player gets booted to the dashboard... it's a tough sell in 4 minutes. So far, I havent heard anyone say "Biology Battle isnt worth the price!" but I have heard people say "I'm not sure, is Biology Battle worth the price?"

Anyway, I know I rant, but this game cost me quite a bit to write (100k USD over 1 year), so I need to be able to recoup my costs if i want to keep writing games... and I admit I'm a bit paniced about the trial mode restriction :cry:[/quote]


Thanks for the info and the opinion on the 4 minute trials which I totally agree btw. I hope you keep posting and let us know about your progress with recouping your costs.
 
Great idea and there seems to be a decent amount of them up. Is there any site that has reviews of them?
So far Word Soup is my favorite out of the three I've tried.
 
We have a thread started here that has some opinion in it, a list of all the games released with links to descriptions of each (check the op), FAQs, a "Games by CAGs" section, and links to several interesting sites.

But to answer your question: I would check out
*Reviews and Opinions:

Gamerbytes.com updates their blog entries with the recent entries in Community Games and videos for each (along with impressions):
XNA Community Games - What You'll Be Playing On Day 1, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
http://www.gamerbytes.com/2008/11/to...and_crysta.php

http://www.xblaratings.com/xna-ratings


Edit: Please post your impressions of the games and demos in our Community Games thread. Thanks.
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']novaleaf, I really dig your game. I'll be picking it up sometime soon. Its pretty much like what I was hoping at least one mode in Geometry Wars 2 would be.

I do have a question and you don't have to give specific numbers but since it is one of the 800 point games, I'm curious if you could kill my cat by telling me on how well its been selling?[/quote]

it's doing "OK", i'll probably end up recouping my costs after about 1 year. At least, that's my assumption. The leaderboards showed about 100 people purchasing the game over the first 4 days, and since those are gold members only, i'd estimate that to be about 400 or 500 people total.

Though that's just my estimations. Microsoft hasnt given out real sales info, and I don't think they will any time soon....
 
couple of new games up

Zombie Smashers X4 Guitarpocalypse (400 points)
This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=2/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=1/3. Batter your enemies senseless with Rock Fu and Guitarpocalyptic Power Chords in this quick to pick up, nasty to master arena brawler. The most tenacious will prevail in this apocalyptic brawl between ninjas, zombies, pirates, cyborgs, and punks!
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Memo Stomp (400 points)
This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=0/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. Fun party game based on the classic card game. Great for a dance pad, but fun to play on a standard controller too!
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[quote name='Chronotrigga']How much do you get each time someone buys your game?[/quote]

that's a good question chronotrigga, it's supposed to be 70%, however there's a big asterik next to that.

First, microsoft might (at their discression) take up to 40% more for doing "additional marketing" for the game. It's not disclosed what they might do, but they disclose that they can and will take additional cuts.

Also, it seems that we will not get sales or download information any time soon (ever?). It's also going around that our first checks will be sent sometime in the april 2009 timeframe. so quite a long wait.

That said, i think the base 70% is good, great actually. I spent a lot (100k) on the game and need to recoup some of the costs to make sure I can continue writing games. So I'm happy with the arangement, even though no download statistics is quite a bumber.
 
[quote name='m3talst0rm']Added 4 titles:
*Aaron's Ping-Pong (Classics) Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/24)
*MemoStomp (Famiky) Price: 400 Microsoft Points (11/24)
*Oh Snap (Puzzle & Trivia) Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/24)
*ZSX4 Guitarpocalypse (Fighting) Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/24)[/quote]

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k im interested in Guitarpocalypse
 
I want to be interested in these (as a whole), but, I'm just not :whistle2:k
I haven't even downloaded a demo of these... :lol:
 
[quote name='lilboo']I want to be interested in these (as a whole), but, I'm just not :whistle2:k
I haven't even downloaded a demo of these... :lol:[/QUOTE]

Though for the most part they are crap, there is also some really good games on the service
 
The only games I've kept the demos for right now:

Being - Simple platformer that I think doesn't erase your progress after being booted due to the timer.
Biology Battle - Probably the most worthy of being bumped up to XBLA status so MS can't threaten its use of leaderboards and achievements.
Bloc - A fun, unique puzzle/shooter.
Fruit Attack - Simple puzzle game
Galax-e-mail - Interesting dual-stick shooter
Lines - Interesting Lumines-style puzzle game.
sin(Surfing) - Not enough to this for a purchase
Snake360 - Decent snake clone.
Word Soup - Fun, flash-style word game
 
[quote name='SoulReaver']WTF happened to all the good games from the community trial thing they had awhile back? I want Dishwasher Samurai, Jellycar, etc.[/QUOTE]

Dishwasher Samurai was bumped up to Arcade status so it is getting a full release.
 
[quote name='Nelo Ice']
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k im interested in Guitarpocalypse[/quote]


According to this site it is the same people that done the dishwasher. It seems like a smash bros. clone. And for 2.50 I'm gonna buy it, if I like the demo. Watch the video here.

Edit: Also the music is great.

I also added *Pastry Wars (Shooter) Price: 200 Microsoft Points (11/24) to the op list as well as the links above.
 
[quote name='m3talst0rm']the pong clone was already up, but added the others. Thanks![/QUOTE]

didn't see it on the list. They sure are putting up quite a few games.
 
Bought Biology Battle. I think it is worth the money. And though in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make much difference but the bottom left corner where it tells you your global rank and how many more points you need to move up is one awesome little feature (and I have the feeling that wasn't the easiest thing to write)
 
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