Impressive new XBLive Arcade Game using UE3!

[scooby_dooby]

Wow, take a look at this new game coming to XBox Live Arcade:

I guess it's a basketball game!?

Hoopworld:

Hector: HoopWorld is a three-on-three multiplayer trick game that rewards gamers for playing competitively, cooperatively, and creatively. What that basically means is that the more show-boating, ass kicking, and tactics you perform as a team, the more points you earn. HoopWorld’s game mechanics emphasize team based tricking

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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/674/674184p1.html

Who says smaller developers can't make a buck!

Hector: We chose to develop HoopWorld on the 360 Live Arcade service for a variety of reasons, but none is as important as the freedom of innovation! It’s been our experience that most developers want to push innovative content, and it’s not often they have the opportunity to do so in the current risk-adverse retail market. The 360 Live Arcade service enables indie-developers to showcase new ideas and innovations in a mainstream accessible environment. We feel there a lot of so called “hardcore gamers” that are casual gamers - they just don’t know where to find indie-games yet!

The beauty of 360 Live Arcade is that it creates a marketplace for all developers to create and distribute cutting-edge experiences. Unique features like downloadable content, player achievements, and scoreboards create an integrated online experience that brings back the feeling of the arcade and takes the concept of gaming to an all new level. HoopWorld is a “game snack” that provides gamers a quick-bite-of-fun that is easily accessible and doesn’t require too much thinking! In some sense, HoopWorld is like a mini-arcade MMO that provides players with dynamic and continuous content that is used to enhance their playing skills.

 

[Farid]

There's another XBLA game using UE3.0, a game with Robots or something, and it looked really good.

 

[scooby_dooby]

Should be a great boon to the indie-development scene.

 

[ninelven]

How do they afford UE3?