I've been getting quite a few emails from Xbox Live Indie Game developers asking me to either post about their game or review it for the site. I'd be glad to do either, but I need more than an email asking for a post about your game.
I got a couple emails today about some upcoming Xbox Live Community Games that looks really good. The first is from Weapon of Choice creator Mommy's Best Games about their next title Grapple Buggy. The second is Duality ZF from Xona Games. We've got details, trailers, and screenshots so read on to get all the details. Finally, the third game is SBARG from Gyko Games. All three of these have me really excited about the future of Community Games!
Take control of the prototype Grapple Buggy piloted by Nova Commander Javeya, and her alien co-pilot Drozo to explore the newly discovered VALD-END 317. The distant planet seems to house massive amounts of Tetravaldisae, known to its harvesters as ‘Vald’. Used to create fuel for faster-than-light travel, Vald is the single most valuable commodity in the known universe.
The New Homeworld Armada and the Drozo Empire have formed a strained alliance to confirm these portentous readings sending the Grapple Buggy and its team into action for the first time.
Can the Drozo Empire be trusted? Has Javeya’s government thrust her into a compromised situation? Will VALD-END thwart both species schemes? Swing into action with Grapple Buggy!
Features:
Sumptuous blend of buggy-driving craziness and grapple swinging glee!
Upgrade your buggy with new wheels, jumping abilities, and devastating new grapple arms!
Fight or befriend—explore VALD-END to encounter both terrifying xeno-fauna and sentient aliens!
Features dynamic decision branching, and multiple, story-driven endings!
From developer Mommy’s Best Games creator of the award-winning Community Game Weapon of Choice.
Duality: ZF is releasing soon for $5 (400 Microsoft Points)
Features:
- 6 game modes (home, survival, arcade, score rush, bullet hell, boss rush)
- 4 control modes (solo play, dual play, multidirectional, and [top secret])
- 4x local multiplayer
- 96 different game styles
- 96 online scoreboards (individual and team scores)
- Imphenzia soundtrack
Every game mode can be played with every control mode. Every game mode and every control mode can be played with one to four players. Every game mode and every control mode and every team size (1P, 2P, 3P, and 4P) has its own online scoreboard. Two or more player games count as team efforts and every player receives the team score and competes against other equally-numbered teams, globally. Duality: ZF is locally cooperative and globally competitive. It kicks ass. Your scores will not "drop off" the bottom of the scoreboard list. Everyone gets on the boards. Duality: ZF will be one of the most fun and cooperatively competitive video games on the Xbox 360.
Gyko Games' SBARG is an accessible real time strategy game where you must protect Dr. Strobo's Research HQ from waves of Weed Monsters. SBARG is set in a beautiful other worldly setting where you follow the story of an eccentric scientist who is fighting against an evil enemy with only his SBARG to help protect him. SBARG clearly has influences of Desktop Tower Defense in that you plant pods(towers) to defeat waves of enemies, but gone are the fixed paths, along with a locked grid for positioning and add to that a central base you have to protect creates a very nice mix of game play with hours of replayability. SBARG will feature shared high scores so you can prove who is the best SBARG at protecting Dr. Strobo.
