Suggestions for indie games for Xbox live marketplace

binsky3333 · Aug 17, 2010

Hey guys! Im not sure if any of you remember, i havnt been on these forums forever. If this sparks your mind at all, i was the developer of that quake style FPS Engine.

http://techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88124

Well, im back with more and more experience and wow have my skills gotten much better. Now, the reason why i am posting this is because im asking my fellow TPU users what kind of games do they want to see on the Xbox live indie game marketplace? Now that im done learning everything i can about programming and game dev, its time for me to take it to the next level and create a game. I've been doing 2d and 3d programming now for about 3 years. So do you guys have any ideas? Any genre suggestions?

My Ideas:

Sandbox game(Like garrysmod, multiplayer)

Zombie game(Nazi zombie kinda thing, multiplayer)

Fort defense(1st person multiplayer fort defense)

Space exploration and build game(Build ships flys to space, fight, mine, etc)

Hope you guys can give me some suggestions... and thanks!

erocker · Aug 17, 2010

I'd love to see more games like Trine and Machinarium. Beautiful art and beautiful music. :toast:

A space game like Wing Commander would be awesome as well.

binsky3333 · Aug 17, 2010

Ahh ok... ill have to look into those games.

scaminatrix · Aug 17, 2010

Like said in your past thread, a TPU game!
Working your way through a virtual-TPU office floor; where you have to avoid being spanked by bansticks, BFG VGA cards are being use as thrown weapons; and at the end of the game you have to fight the evil W1zzard who has playing evil April Fool's jokes on you :roll:

binsky3333 · Aug 17, 2010

Hahahahahaha... that would be a very interesting game!

scaminatrix · Aug 17, 2010

Forgot you said you haven't been here in a while, you may have missed it, W1zzard taunted us, saying he was leaving and selling TPU = April Fool's!

binsky3333 · Aug 17, 2010

hhaha. Oh wow, thats a pretty good prank!

crazy pyro · Aug 17, 2010

binsky3333 said:
hhaha. Oh wow, thats a pretty good prank!

It was evil!
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=118962&highlight=w1zzard+leaving+GTX+480+review
Look how long he let everyone believe it was true for!
To be relevant to the thread, I'd be interested in a first person fort defence type game but don't own a 360 (only the original Xbox) so my input with regards this is a bit limited.

binsky3333 · Aug 17, 2010

Ah ok. For anyone looking for more info on the for defense game, there will be two teams, each must build a fort out of crates and stuff, then they must fight to detrsoy each others forts. Or there will be there is one big team and they all must build one single fort and fend off waves of zombies.

Mr McC · Aug 18, 2010

erocker said:
I'd love to see more games like Trine and Machinarium. Beautiful art and beautiful music.

A space game like Wing Commander would be awesome as well.

Machinarium is without doubt one of the best indie games ever produced. According to the author, Microsoft rejected the game for the Xbox when initially approached; however Microsoft are selling a different story, although that may just be an failed attempt to justify a rather poor decision:

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/7...nariums-alleged-xbox-live-arcade-denial-.html

MilkyWay · Aug 18, 2010

zap zap pew pew i think its called is a Commodore 64 style shoot em up with some interesting bosses.

erm something like that!

streetfighter 2 · Aug 18, 2010

Mr McC said:
Machinarium is without doubt one of the best indie games ever produced.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. My vote would go to Crayon Physics over Machinarium. (I'm not sure if I'd say that Crayon Physics is the best indie game, but I think it better than Machinarium.) Nothing I have ever seen is more original and rewarding than Crayon Physics. Machinarium's art style is astonishing but it is an unoriginal take on puzzle gameplay. I enjoyed playing Day of The Tentacle more than Machinarium but I enjoyed Machinarium's art more.

My opinion on Xbox Live game ideas is X-Moto/Elastomania style arcade motorcycle fun. Those games have literally infinite replay value and they're fun and rewarding to get good at.

scaminatrix · Aug 18, 2010

streetfighter 2 said:
Elastomania style arcade motorcycle fun.

+1 on elastomania...

Mr McC · Aug 18, 2010

streetfighter 2 said:
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. My vote would go to Crayon Physics over Machinarium. (I'm not sure if I'd say that Crayon Physics is the best indie game, but I think it better than Machinarium.) Nothing I have ever seen is more original and rewarding than Crayon Physics. Machinarium's art style is astonishing but it is an unoriginal take on puzzle gameplay. I enjoyed playing Day of The Tentacle more than Machinarium but I enjoyed Machinarium's art more.

My opinion on Xbox Live game ideas is X-Moto/Elastomania style arcade motorcycle fun. Those games have literally infinite replay value and they're fun and rewarding to get good at.

Never heard of Crayon Physics, I'll give it a try, thanks.

Jaffakeik · Aug 18, 2010

try this http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/110/1109803p1.html

NinkobEi · Aug 18, 2010

Mr McC said:
Machinarium is without doubt one of the best indie games ever produced.

streetfighter 2 said:
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. My vote would go to Crayon Physics over Machinarium. (I'm not sure if I'd say that Crayon Physics is the best indie game, but I think it better than Machinarium.) Nothing I have ever seen is more original and rewarding than Crayon Physics. Machinarium's art style is astonishing but it is an unoriginal take on puzzle gameplay. I enjoyed playing Day of The Tentacle more than Machinarium but I enjoyed Machinarium's art more..

"One of the best" - obviously the very best game comes down to user opinion. i'm not trying to be a jerk by pointing this out, I just think that you misread.

binsky3333 · Aug 19, 2010

Thanks everyone for the great feedback! I will take everyones comments into consideration, though as of know im thinking of making a sandbox or fort defense game. Which would you rather see on the market in your opinion?

PaulieG · Aug 19, 2010

Can't believe no one mentioned "World of Goo". Me thinks it's the best of the indies.

Reventon · Aug 19, 2010

I'd love to see more indie sandbox games

binsky3333 · Aug 19, 2010

Reventon said:
I'd love to see more indie sandbox games

Me too! In my opinion sandbox games are the best, because it up to the user the way they want to play the game. Theres no storyline or point, so the user has to create his own fun thing do. Plus, with 7+ other friends and constant gameplay/media updates you'll never really run out of things to do. Also i may of figured out a way for users to be able to run homemade scripts for the servers they host. You may be able to edit a script file off your computer, copy it to a usb and then run the script in the game. This may be a problem tho, because it involves hacking the Microsoft usb drive encrypted files.

binsky3333 · Aug 22, 2010

Alright so ive decided im gonna go with a sandbox game... but it will also include some different game play modes like fort defense.

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