ZSX4 is Live!
Right now it’s… well… not the least popular game, but its still getting pummeled in the popularity contest by Garrett the Slug. You don’t have to buy it (though it costs the same as 5 64×64 images), but at least give it a download. My image is on the line.
Also, xnPlay is all over it.
If anything, I guess this should go to show how easy it is to get a game on XBCG.
It’s as complicated as:
- Make a game that doesn’t crash (bonus: make a game that doesn’t suck! For pointers, buy my book!)
- Make a box art image, take 4 screenshots, make a thumbnail, make a movie (optional)
- Upload the game
- Wait for it to pass review (as long as it doesn’t crash and doesn’t contain colons, racism, or Nazis, this should be painless)
- Wait for it to go LIVE!
Granted, the first step is the most time consuming, but traditionally in the PC gaming world, the other steps are the biggest hassle (submitting to random portals, setting up payment processing services, etc). This means that hobbyist game development, a hobby which is traditionally 90% fun, is now 98% fun and console-deployable. Amazing. Go nuts!
November 25, 2008 posted by James
9 Comments Comment away!
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royalexander | November 25, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Looks good mr Silva! Glad your deployment to live was as painless as can be. I’m still at the 90% work part though (gonna take me ages, but hey its fun!)
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stuartpb | November 25, 2008 at 7:33 PM
I hadn’t read the last post before this one, and as such I had a totally different interpretation of keeping your game free of colons.
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Catalin | November 25, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Just for the pleasure of the XNA MVPs… please add a bullet point with “enter your game into playtest to find out if you have any bugs before entering review and failing for crashes that could be caught in playtest”
Fortunately, you were one of the rare cases, where the review version was crash-free
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imortaltrashcan | November 26, 2008 at 4:09 PM
This is the second game of yours ive enjoyed. I can’t wait to play The Dishwasher. Keep it up! By the way what song do you use in your trailer?
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nasreddin85 | November 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
I can not play the demo. After a game starts all 4 characters are continuous falling. They are not able to walk on the objects on the screen.
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James | November 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Hey nasreddin–are you from a non-US region? I think I know what the problem is and it involves (unsurprisingly) bad, old code. I’m fixing it; I’ll be uploading it again
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nasreddin85 | November 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
I am from a non-US region. Looking forward to the update. In the videos the game seems to be a lot of fun.
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myeager2 | November 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Hey, I’m an editor for diehardgamefan.com and I was wondering if I could quickly interview you about ZSX4? Trying to pull together a feature about Community Games.
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