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…Maybe.Īctually, it’s hard to tell what’s going on with this game-whether Silver Dollar Games (because, yes, this is a Silver Dollar Games production!) intentionally made a ruminative game that both elicits and makes you think about real-life emotions…or whether they did so accidentally while trying to find the laziest way to fund yet more boobfest girlsims, such as -and this is an actual game that they’re working on right now, and not just the worst thing I could think of off the top of my head - Fortune Cookies…in Bed. Trust me on this: I think the name and the graphics are supposed to be boring it’s all part of the theme that this thoughtful and introspective indie game is going for. I’m also authorized to reset Gamerscores.) In the meantime, while everyone cools down, and maybe regrows a few braincells, check out these games you won’t be allowed to play anytime soon: (Yes, of course I can do that- I’m on the Internet. The zombie fad, appropriately, will never die.Īnd, one final thing: Since nobody can be trusted to purchase games on their own anymore, I’m officially revoking everyone’s access to Microsoft Points until you can promise to stop buying games with the word “fart” in the title. And they’re all games I only included because I wanted to make fun of them.ģ.

The Pudding Bump is completely meaningless. Of the approximately 40 games I talked about in “Minus the Pudding” last year, only four made the list. (Incidentally, this is why Lizo and I have decided to rename our perpetually in-development adventure game, testgame as Christina Hendricks’s Nipples.)Ģ. There’s no way, for example, that Baby Maker Extreme would be at the top of the list otherwise, because, spoiler alert, it has nothing to do with sex. Gamers tend to care less about a videogame’s content, and more about what its name implies about its content. So what can we learn from this list? Well, a number of things:ġ.

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Top 20 Xbox Live Indie Games of 2010 (based on full versions purchased during first week of release) Personally, I’m so demotivated I won’t be able to finish this lame joke I think I already used bef It’s based on sales figures-specifically, number of copies sold during the first week of a game’s launch-and the results, as expected, are completely demotivating. This month, courtesy of Joystiq, we have: everyone else’s list. Last month in Pudding, I ran my own personal list of the Top 5 Xbox Live Indie Games from 2010.

Those are the pudding games of Indie Games, and I want to talk about the ones that aren’t. In “Minus the Pudding,” I plan to highlight the very best of what Xbox Live Indie Games has to offer, though, by “very best,” I actually just mean the games that aren’t Sudoku, fireplace simulators, or massagers for your private parts. Have you played them? Are they good? Do let us know! We won't laugh.In an early episode of South Park, fat-boy Eric Cartman talks about how independent movies are “always about gay cowboys eating pudding.” The same can (almost) be said for Xbox Live’s Indie Games service-a service that allows anyone, anyone at all, to develop and publish their own Xbox 360 game. Today, the list of best-selling Xbox Live Indie Games has two new leaders: The Impossible Game and Soul. Titles outside of the top 20 best-seller list made a lot less, taking home between $500 (£310) and $17,500 (£10,835).

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Avatar Drop and RC-AirSim were the second and third best sellers in 2009, but only converted a small number of their 400,000-plus trial users.Īvatar Drop made $81,900 (£50,714) and RC-AirSim made $129,000 (£79,880).

GamerBytes deduced that best seller 'I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMB1ES 1NIT!!!1', which has been downloaded 160,000 times, made around $112,000 (£69,366) after Microsoft's cut. The teams themselves reported revenues ranging between $21,000 (£13,000) and $129,500 (£80,200), and revealed a strong rate of converts from trial to full-game purchase. Despite cries of 'woeful' marketing and a service that's 'not financially viable', developers are making decent money on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel.

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