Well, **** me sideways.
By all accounts, ECHS BACHS struggles to bring starter kits to the level where they are candidates for release onto the service. At least he is putting forth effort.
This release, by contrast, just smacks of extreme cynicism on the part of R3dDr4g0n – who has already proven to be a more than competent developer with Petank Party. Flooding the service with re-skinned starter kits may snag a few sales here and there, but will only lower the over-all level of quality in Community Games and confuse customers to boot.
2060 Cyber Racer is slightly more visually appealing than Blueprint Racer 4D and seems to run a bit smoother, but that’s all that’s worth saying about it.
This title was 200 Points at the time of writing this review but has since been reduced to 80 Points.
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This service really needs a better and more strict submission method. I’m not saying “crappy” games shouldn’t be pubilshed, I’m saying things like that shouldn’t.
Fuck you R3dDr4g0n…
+1
Unfortunately, Microsoft has stated that we cannot reject something just because it’s a reskinned Starter Kit. As long as something works, even if it’s complete crap quality-wise, it cannot be rejected. There are some of us that won’t approve submissions like this, but there are enough people that will approve anything that stuff like this will inevitably get through.
I don’t mind when people shoot themselves in the foot. But stop shooting everyone else’s feet!! ARG.
That’s the issue here. If he’s going to sod off and develop for a another platform then just do it and stop trying to fuck it up for all the other developers.
I like having all these weird games and starter kits submitted out of spite. It gives the community games channel how do you say, the human touch.
I’d say we should have an XNA Racer for every color of the rainbow.
I can’t wait for Skybluepink Racer
I can’t wait for the Natal version where you can change colors on the fly.
Make rainbow shapes to change colours! Shake a leg to add shaders.
It’s the future, I tells thee.
Maybe it’s a form of retro-active Karma that this guy’s Petank Party game didn’t sell?
If I had that guy’s programming ability I’d be a rich guy right now. It’s a shame that someone decides to waste their talent in this manner.
I think his work is an ingenious parody of the title of “And Yet it Moves”, adequately he should call his project “And Yet it Sells”. After this AND his rumble program he’ll soon control the top 10 using only programs that people “in the know” hate!
so the rumble massage clone is from him too? good to know…
This service could be potentially a very good platform for us all indie developers, a sort of more free answer to the XBLA one, but it’s crushed to the flood quality and sales wise by some of the developers themselves!
I really think we should start a petition or something to have a barely minimum of quality rules and raise a bit the bar for submissions.
I’m really not saying “crappy” games shouldn’t be published, or we’ll lose the sense of freedom the service offers, but they need to be original stuff, changing textures to a starter kit making it also a lot uglier than the starter kit itself damage us all, the service itself and the gamers, as a lot of developers will rush to develop a broken or stupid game in the sea of crappy products instead to focus on more polished ones.
User ratings are due soon. They’ll help things along the way, but it’s still an uphill struggle for devs right now (and I’m not talking financially as that’s not really the aim of the CG, I’m more referring to getting noticed in the first place).
yes, i know that… that’s also partially fault of how the dashboard is designed too, the CG service has too many entry and who ever bother to browse the games by letter?
(Oh also, i LOVED both the two synso, are you working on an xbox version?)
Me. I only ever browse by letter if I’m browsing. I find the categories to be useless.
But I know I’m odd.
There is a 360 version, yup, my input has been minimal in the extreme. It’s the work of the ever excellent Andy Noble
Dunno what’s happening with it yet though, not my call.
you can get noticed if you have a “hook”… to a degree. One issue is that the long-tail approach is not good, because although there is a “browse” to find any game, it’s not REALLY used in general, because it’s so bare-bone.
User Ratings may not help immediately. It depends on how MS implements it.
Blueprint Racer 4D creator, ECHS BACHS, is complaining about this now…
http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/32623.aspx
…so perhaps it wasn’t a complete waste of time after all.
so is he complaining because he was the *first* asshole to sell a starterkit instead of making a game and he thinks he retain some sort of copyright on the idea? hilarious but sad at the same time…
Now *that’s* comedy.
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Look, I know most of you hate the game, but does anyone know the racing song’s title? or the artist, at least. any help you could give would be appreciated. post the link to the song if possible, plz.