Friday 15 April 2011

Digital Distrubution

We've just received confirmation through IGN that www.Direct2Drive.com what to sell Infans Solaris when it's released in hopefully just under 2 weeks from now once we've re-submitted the latest, bug-free build of the game.

Because the confirmation was through IGN it's likely that other websites that sell games via digital distribution will be interested in selling it as well which is awesome news! At the moment Steam are still reviewing the game and we will hopefully hear back from them soon as to whether they would be interested in selling I.S. on there.

Sunday 10 April 2011

Another 'minor' set back

Well, we've had some feedback from an XNA reviewer, Richard Williams (Developmental Games), on Infans Solaris' latest build, and in his opinion the game, as it is at the moment, would fail submission. Certain things like having the game crash when pulling a memory unit out of the console whenever the player is promoted to select a storage device is cause for a fail and so the coders are already fixing these bugs, nothing we can't easily solve though thankfully.
The game title may also have to undergo a change as Latin isn't allowed within a XBLA Indie Games' title, this seems to be a bit of a hit or miss affair though and 'could' be alright in the end without the change, we'll have to wait and see.

These bugs aside all the reviewers so far on the App Hub site have enjoyed the game's different modes, variety of weapons, looks and it's overall gameplay. Thanks to everyone for their feedback as well as anyone else that's reviewed the game so far.

Already we've learned a lot about what to do and what not to do for when "Other World" is due for release. Despite the hiccups, this has still be an awesome way for us all to learn what to look out for and how to better prioritise what we need to fix before sending a game off to it's final review, hopefully it'll be a bit smoother next time :D

At very worst this is likely to delay the release of "Infans Solaris" by another week so we'll keep you posted on when the game will be out.

Tuesday 5 April 2011

First Review

Got our first XNA reviewer look at the game before they put it on sale. Good news, no major problems that causes the submission to fail so that's a good sign, still a few things the guy recommended changing, thankfully all of them were things we were all aware of and intent to alter in the game's first patch.

Just have to wait for a few more of the XNA reviewers to look at the game and then it'll go on the marketplace :D

Friday 1 April 2011

Price drop

Just done some compression and had a word with Microsoft and they'll let us sell Infans Solaris whilst being over the limit a little but they will need it for up to another week, it's all good though at least it's coming out soon.

So Infans Solaris will only 80MS points when it comes out, bargain at that price :D