As promised in my first post about this year's Dream Build Play contest, here comes another batch of contest entries that caught my eye.
(If you don't know what DBP is, read my other post which contains a short intro: Click)
Again: While all these games are written with XNA and therefore could appear on Xbox Live Indie Games at some point in the future, since I am not involved with any of them, I do not know if/when this will ever happen...
So here we go, three more:
Magnetic Mind seems to be a 3D platformer and surely looks like it has a very large and detailed 3D world (as it seems from the video, with physics to boot) that could be fun to play around in. I haven't tested it myself, so I can't say if the game play holds what the trailer seems to promise:
Master of Belial is described by its makers as a "Team Multiplayer Action RPG game", whatever that may be. Release is currently slated for early 2010 on both PC and Xbox 360. According to their FAQ, they are hoping that maybe through the DBP contest they may land an XBLA contract, as they write: "Masters of Belial will appear either on Xbox Live! or Xbox Live! Indie Games based on the results of this years Dream Build Play contest organized by Microsoft.". Have a look for yourself:
Tribes of Mexica is an Action Puzzler that uses a match-3 pattern (although not in the standard way) to let you battle it out with attackers of your mexican tribe (I guess). Looks very professional to me graphics wise and I would like to get my hands on it to test how the game play actually works out:
I don't think our entry got in in time but everyone should check out Dungeons (horrible title I know). It's a beat em up that is pretty amusing. I am the voice of Gleobryn :P
Magnetic Mind is to similar to LittleBigPlanet for my liking, and the other two seem quite generic but considering Master of Belial is online I'd say it is the stronger of the two
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Master of Belial is a nice Diablo style game. I'd check that out too.
Tribes of Mexico also looks interesting.
Looks like the indie dev talents is getting better.