Why XBL Arcade is important...

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A couple of decent editorials from a developer of Marble Blast Ultra for XBL Arcade. He talks about it in more of a general 'indie developer' context rather then "XBLA FTW!". I thought it was kind of interesting and spells out more clearly things we kinda knew all along.

Part I:

http://makeitbigingames.com/blog/?p=7

Part II:

http://makeitbigingames.com/blog/?p=13

 

[patsu]

I concur !

 

[Brimstone]

Good stuff.

 

[Lysander]

Xlive arcade market is a good territory for low-budget independent game-makers who want to show themselves, something like Xbox360 Sundance

 

[Inane_Dork]

I probably sound like a broken record by now, but I'm really glad that XBLA took off. Hopefully, all three platforms will have as robust and popular setup as MS does.

I'm sure the annihilation of the used game market and normal replication/shipping costs has several publishers interested.

 

[Corwin_B]

I love XBLA. Glad to see indie developers like it too, and see it as a viable development platform.

OTOH, the current interface for XBLA (both for finding new games and browsing your own) won't scale well with more titles... I hope MS improves the Dashboard to take that into account.

 

[Griffith]

I really love XLA and this game are my best choice
It's great, a lot of fun, and nice graphics for a XLA game

in my opinion HLA is THE killer application, I'm not joking

**great**

 

[Platon]

Yeah, this XBLA even makes me think that I have a chance of developing games, god forbid...