October 2008 Alpha Demo of Duality: ZF, an Xbox 360 game by Xona Games.Release Date: November 19, 2008, in Xbox LIVE Community Games (XBLCG), to be found in the New Xbox Experience (XNE) released on the same date.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h46y0N9nUec
looks pretty cool. you control both ships with what? each stick? in that kind of bullet he ll only a japanese person would want to play that methinks.
^whats the pricing structure going to be on these games anyway? come on, let the cat out of the bag if you have the cat and the catbag.
Community games are either 200, 400 or 800 points. The Developer gets to choose.
If your game is over 50Mb then the developer can only choose 400 or 800
All games have a timed (the amount of time is not specified) trial mode which will have no access to XBL. Purchased games however can be full XBL games. Rich presence, invites are supported. GamerPoints/Achievements and Leaderboards are not.
Zman, will you be able to recommend Community games to friend the same as you can with XBLA games.
Thanks
GloryHornetEmmo wrote: Zman, will you be able to recommend Community games to friend the same as you can with XBLA games.
I honestly don't know. Is that part of the new Web UI on the NXE stuff? Do you have a link to how you do that for XBLA games as thats new to me. Then I will go find out.
I know that the CG will have their own xbox.com pages so you can buy on the web and do the 'mark to download' for auto downloads.
The ZManiac wrote: GloryHornetEmmo wrote: Zman, will you be able to recommend Community games to friend the same as you can with XBLA games. I honestly don't know. Is that part of the new Web UI on the NXE stuff? Do you have a link to how you do that for XBLA games as thats new to me. Then I will go find out. I know that the CG will have their own xbox.com pages so you can buy on the web and do the 'mark to download' for auto downloads.
Xonatron wrote:DUALITY: ZF will sell for 200 Microsoft points, unless we cannot meet the (difficult) 50MB size limit and are forced to sell for 400 points. We will do everything we can to meet that limit. Please understand the game is still in development.
"DUALITY: ZF will sell for 400 Microsoft Points (MP). Duality: ZF has turned into a 6 month, $20,000 development effort. It has approached what was originally planned to be the 400 MP Dualilty: ZF sequel. With our extended efforts, we have skipped by our theoretical simplistic 200 MP version of Duality: ZF, and have headed directly to our feature-rich 400 MP version. We feel this move is justified, and will be understood by gamers once they play the finished game. Releasing a simple 200 MP version would have been fun, but would have deminished our first impression on the gaming community. These type of decisions are not easy to make. We hope gamers understand." -- http://xona.com/dualityzf/
Geichz wrote:So your bro is Xonatron - you guys are from Nova Scotia hmmn, tell me was that show "The Trailer Park Boys"a big deal up there? People were freaking out about it all the way down in NY
The official release date is February 28, 2009. In a post further up this same thread, I explain our decision to bypass a more simplistic version of our game which has extended the release date. Good news, as Jason already mentioned, is that one of the additional features is an online global scoreboard similiar to leaderboards, only technically not the same so we cannot use that name.
Still anxiously awaiting this game - best of luck polishing it up!