Check out these vids of upcoming XNA games

[RadarScope1]

These are supposedly coming to the Indie Games tab on Xbox Live. User-made using the XNA Game Studio software. They just dropped prices on all of these games down to $1, $3 and $5 (was $2.50, $5 and $10 - not many were $10, though).

Dust, a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler style game:



and a randomly generated platformer that looks tough as nails called Cloudberry Kingdom. Looks ripped directly from those insane Mario homebrews:



Both look like some 2D fun. I really want to see some straight retro goodness on the Indie Games portal. I'd take some cool new 8 and 16-bit experiences for a buck or three, easy.

[corn619]

Dust looks great too bad its download only. They should really make disc compilations of these downloadable games.

[RadarScope1]

The rub is, we wouldn't be getting it all if the easy, cheap, DL pipeline didn't exist. So I guess it's a trade off.

[corn619]

The rub is, we wouldn't be getting it all if the easy, cheap, DL pipeline didn't exist. So I guess it's a trade off.

Not start this debate again but, I'd be willing to pay a little more to own them on disc then to lease them cheaper on my 360.

[RadarScope1]

I'm sure you're not the only one (as we've seen elsewhere here ).

Publishers should do it. The problem with these games is they TRULY indie, made by guys in their spare time for the most part, or as a very small start-up company with just two or three people. I can see even a small pub on the actual XBLA level like the Behemoth doing it, say after their next game comes out, and they could offer a three-in-one disc or something.

Anyway, I really want to see more of Dust. It look great but somehow the combat seems just a bit shallow judging from this very short clip.

[dlmvii]

The rub is, we wouldn't be getting it all if the easy, cheap, DL pipeline didn't exist. So I guess it's a trade off.

Not start this debate again but, I'd be willing to pay a little more to own them on disc then to lease them cheaper on my 360.

I'm sure most everybody here would agree - but with games like these, there probably isn't a very large market, so it makes much more economic sense to do them as downloads - if they sold boxes at a storefront they woul dnever break even.
On another note, Cloudberry Kingdom looks awesome! Now I have 2 xblcg (xblig now, i guess?) to buy, when they come out. This, and DUality ZF (which supposedly will come out someday)

[nickfil]

Dust looks great. Thanks for the heads up.