We took a trip through the Indie Games category, aka "I writes thas games for uos tos pLay":
First impressions: Its astounding how many people love the Comic Sans font. I guess it lends itself well to the zaniness of mid 90s SuperVGA shareware grade shit. 90% of these games use some kind of rendered space blob scene and with a few blinding full blasted colour objects congregating on the screen in some dizzying display of pink laser bullets.
Alot of them involve Balls. There is a severe love of Balls and Ball titled games.
Battle Ball, AceBall, MothBallz, Get The Ball etc.
If you like chinese animation, you will find it here.
Further if you like using the xbox controller to massage/pleasure yourself, you can find that here as well.
In amoung this riff raff, we found a few stand out gems that decided to break off from the norm and attempt something totally different then a Asteroids rip off.
First comes this thing we've nicknamed the TARHD, for obvious reasons.
The TARHD is just a spinning annoying vortex, buy it for $5 for more vortex animations and comic sans instructions.
Urban Art Gallery : Graphically the talent on this thing is a bit better.. but unless your idea of "Urban Art" is equivalent to "stuff used in Bus Shelters & Subway Stations to sell feminine hygiene products" ... it might not be up your alley.
Weapon of Choice has a perfect sex content rating, 3/3. Mutant spider teats really get me going:
"INSANE ACTION and HUMONGOUS ALIENS tied together by a TWISTED STORY. Branching levels, 4 unique endings, 7 characters each with a Weapon of Choice. Reap revenge with the Vengeance Missile. Cheat death with Deathbrushing! Scale walls with the Spiderpack. Rock out to original, blistering metal guitar tracks. Enough gameplay to rot your teeth! Third Place in Microsoft’s Dream Build Play 2008. v.1.06"
You've sold me! Sounds like I'm going to need a whole Case of mountain dew for this adventure.
Unfortunately, the final and best(worst) game we game across doesn't appear in the Xbox Live Creators Club site results.
It's totally in chinese, so I can't even explain what the name of it is.
It's some horrid thing where you're this ninja that travels across the screen horizontally shooting ninja stars upwards, or slashing left or right at stupid enemies and geisha women.
Eventually it seems to bug out and draws clipping rectangle overlays on everything in red/blue while you are being annihilated by weird spider legged ghouls which you cannot defeat.
For some reason you can use the right stick to pan the entire game off screen so you can enjoy the amazing music, but not subject yourself to the array of Red/Blue squares attacking you.
We were also lamenting at how many games involve rodents with weapons after seeing a the trailer for that Disney movie game with the talking hamster who shoots lasers beams, uh... G Force, and some indie games about battle mice.
Matthew said, well, the games ARE targeted at children, I said by children you mean heavily stoned adults.
Probably Richard Gere too..
"Hello my 35 year old son, what are you up to today? Hopefully preparing for a date with a nice lady?"
"Nah.. just covered in cheetoes on the couch in my basement apartment playing this sweet game where I'm a hamster that shoots laser beams at stuff. I don't even want to get up so I'm using my laundry basket as a makeshift bed pan"
