Think the new Xbox 360 Dashboard makes it easier to find content? Tell that to indie developer Mommy's Best Games (of Serious Sam: Double D fame), who has taken to releasing a title mocking the inability for the console interface to effectively find Xbox Live Indie Games.
It's called 'Game Type,' and its thumbnail sports a picture of a hooded woman performing a jump kick - a generic picture that's just good enough for Microsoft to place on its Game Marketplace front page. Oh, the irony. Costing 80 Microsoft Points, the game is a co-op side-scrolling shooter - but the trailer appears to make a lot of fun of the Xbox Dashboard as well.
In a mock press release on the company's website, lead designer Nathan Fouts said, "I've been thrilled Microsoft created the special Dashboard tile just for our game. It's such a terrible name which I created as a placeholder while starting the project.
"With the incongruous stock photo of a woman in a hoodie doing a jump-kick, and the forgettable 'Game Type' title, it's good to know Microsoft was advertising our poorly-named game, and not trying to label the console's entire digital game storefront. Otherwise, it'd be a horrible match that would simply make no sense and generally lead fewer gamers to find the store and browse on their own terms."
Watch the trailer below.
It's called 'Game Type,' and its thumbnail sports a picture of a hooded woman performing a jump kick - a generic picture that's just good enough for Microsoft to place on its Game Marketplace front page. Oh, the irony. Costing 80 Microsoft Points, the game is a co-op side-scrolling shooter - but the trailer appears to make a lot of fun of the Xbox Dashboard as well.
In a mock press release on the company's website, lead designer Nathan Fouts said, "I've been thrilled Microsoft created the special Dashboard tile just for our game. It's such a terrible name which I created as a placeholder while starting the project.
"With the incongruous stock photo of a woman in a hoodie doing a jump-kick, and the forgettable 'Game Type' title, it's good to know Microsoft was advertising our poorly-named game, and not trying to label the console's entire digital game storefront. Otherwise, it'd be a horrible match that would simply make no sense and generally lead fewer gamers to find the store and browse on their own terms."
Watch the trailer below.
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