Zombiez 8 My Cookiez - first details

As you may have seen over on the front page I've put up the first vid from Zombiez:







Indiegames.com have picked up on the vid and like what they see :)

Interview on Armless Octopus

I had the pleasure of chatting with Dave Voyles over on Armless Octopus, you can find the interview here, or listen here.

Interview on Casual Gamer Weekly podcast.

I had a chat with Reg and Rich over on Casual Gamer Weekly, talking about the industry, Fitba, CL10 and the upcoming NLL, check it out here http://casualgamerweekly.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=603427

NLL Lacrosse 2010 - Kotaku coverage

There's been a couple of great articles over on Kotaku following the announcement of NLL Lacrosse 2010.

http://kotaku.com/5506761/indie-sports-game-unites-developers-dream-with-a-leagues-ambition

and

http://kotaku.com/5508839/with-a-video-game-a-small-league-gate+crashes-the-big-time

both are excellent articles and well worth a read.

NLL Lacrosse 2010

The next Triple B Game, NLL Lacrosse 2010 has now been officially announced by the league. I'm delighted to be working once again with Carlo at Crosse Studios, on what is a first for the Xbox Indie Games channel, an officially licensed sports game. For anybody who doesn't know the NLL, it's a professional indoor lacrosse league featuring 11 teams around the US and Canada. The new game is in its final testing stage and we're aiming for release on or around April 30th.

#16 Best selling Indie Game of 2009

Pretty good from only 6 weeks of sales :) Full list over at Major Nelson :

Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)

1 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
2 Avatar Drop
3 RC-AirSim
4 Headshot
5 Miner Dig Deep
6 Rumble Massage
7 Who Did I Date Last Night
8 Kodu Game Lab
9 Avatar Golf
10 Aquarium HD
11 myFishtank
12 Head Shot 2
13 DrumKit
14 A Perfect Massage
15 The Impossible Game
16 Inside Lacrosse's CL2010
17 ZP2K9
18 ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition
19 The Drinking Game
20 Physics Sandbox

Great article over on Kotaku

Yeah! We made Kotaku :)

http://kotaku.com/5419536/sticks-up-lacrosse-breaks-into-the-xbox-360

Excellent reaction to CL10

So CL10 has been out for a week now and sales have been excellent - we're #1 best selling Xbox 360 Indie Game in the US and Canada at the moment. The reaction of the lax community to the game has been overwhelming, they are loving it - we've been rated over 2000 times in the US alone with a rating of over 4.5 stars, currently ahead of Portal, Gears of War 2 and Geometry Wars Evolved. There have also been great comments posted on our Facebook page, here's just some of them:

Alex Konigseder: thank you so much for making this game. i have been waiting for a game for lacrosse since i started playing 6 years ago. and finally some one did. this is the best sports game i have ever played thank you so much!

Chris Sullivan: Cant wait for 2011!

Andrew Buligan: Awsome game. So worth the 5 bucks. Love the graphics. It's sooo realistic. All in all great game.

Nick DeSanctis: just got it. great work guys. i love it! great start!

Stefvon Facey: So i was having the shittiest of the days today then i came home and got this and have been in a great mood ever since. thanks for the game you did a great job on it can't wait to see the future of this game now that you have opened the door

Neil Jackson: awesome game. easy to pick up and easy to play. love it

Mathew Goggins: I love this game - I'm addicted... THANK YOU CL2010

Mikey McGraw: Playing it as we speak best game EVER!!! Ima stop playing cod just to play this im wrecking it up with some huggeee hitss mann its insane GO IRISH!!!


Loads more great comments & reviews check them all out on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/collegelacrosse2010?v=info#/collegelacrosse2010?v=wall

Inside Lacrosse's CL2010 - OUT NOW!!!

Yes, the game has made its way through peer review and is now out and available for download and purchase. Find it in your 360 dash at Indie Games->Browse->Sports & Recreation (or in New Releases for the next few days) or if you prefer to set it up to download from your PC head over to Xbox Marketplace here.

Hope you enjoy the game, and please don't forget to rate the game after you've played it.

Progression Video

Carlo's put together a video showing the progression of Lacrosse throughout the last 6 months - from Fitba to Inside Lacrosse's College Lacrosse 2010. It's funny to look back at the game and see it changing. One word of warning - you might want to turn your speakers down a touch, the musics a bit LOUD!

Fitba Patch - Out Now!

Fitba's been updated with a new version, which has now passed peer review and is available for download. Here's what's new...

Fixed occasional crash in network game when player is sent off.
Added option to alter length of games.
Added option to pause or manually control rotation of player in player editing.
Fixed juddering when the goalkeeper is kicking from hands on client in network game.
Dont allow client to join server if server is running a different version to the client.


Upating to the latest version is currently a bit clunky in the community games channel. You have to manually delete the game from your 360 and download it again. Apparently this is a process that is going to be improved "soon".

Developer Interview for Cranky Gamers UK

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Fly for Cranky Gamers UK, discussing Fitba, making games with XNA and all the fun and games that's involved in getting your game out on Community Games.

Head over here for the Cranky blog or over to iTunes to listen to the interview.