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« on: September 23, 2008, 05:49:52 AM »

Microsoft's Dream Build Play contest ( http://www.dreambuildplay.com ) closes tonight at midnight, and, since they force every entry to post a video on the horrid MSN video - we get to see clips of every single entry. There's a nice prize setup (40,000, 20,000, 10,000, 5,000) and it also is a nice preview of stuff we might see on Community Games.

If you search for "xna" on http://video.msn.com and arrange 'soapbox videos' by date, you'll see over 300 submissions; all of them indie games. Or if you go to http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/Gallery.aspx ; you can see a gallery of these games as they are actually entered.

I made this thread as a discussion to talk about some of those entries as well as a kind of get together for anyone here that entered. My entry is An Awesome Game...and I know of a few others that visit here that may have entered.

Some of my favorites are:

Pulse Galaxy:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=2e230bbb-354e-47d9-b08d-26c3972187a9

Music Painter:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=0408074e-4fac-4ae8-903c-83c751532d09

Clean Up:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=fdcf2a44-4855-4325-891f-95bf021dbdd0

Being:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a9e179e9-ed6f-473e-b63d-456c6a77c3b9

and Smashell:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=391c21d5-5b9f-40fa-b062-bb5fda6464b

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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2008, 06:01:16 AM »

Here we have one of the richest companies on the face of the planet, and they make you sit through f$%&ing commercials before you can watch a video on their crappy video portal which they're ostensibly trying to position as a YouTube rival.

Sometimes you really wonder what those guys are thinking.
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2008, 06:56:47 AM »

Everyone I've seen who submitted a video to MSN video for the contest has complained about having to do it.
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« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2008, 08:41:49 PM »

Here we have one of the richest companies on the face of the planet, and they make you sit through f$%&ing commercials before you can watch a video on their crappy video portal which they're ostensibly trying to position as a YouTube rival.

Sometimes you really wonder what those guys are thinking.

I believe that most of them also wonder what they are thinking. I know someone who worked at Microsoft, and she was just as baffled by them as anyone else.

As an aside, arrogancy, the reason why this thread may have gotten fewer replies than the MUA one is that it's a lot of information all at once. My post was just a link to a strange video, which is easy to reply to. Here, it's more challenging to reply to because there are links to a lot of different games, it has no obvious focus. I'm sure if each of the games had their own thread they'd each probably have more replies than this thread, it's just a psychological issue of having too much information in one post.
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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2008, 08:56:10 PM »

I wasn't speaking of just here, like I said, it just triggered a response to a general apathy I've been seeing across the Net in various people trying to raise awareness of some of these titles.
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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2008, 09:03:47 PM »

In that case, another reason could be that they aren't playable by the public. It's hard to get excited about something that you can't even play unless it's a big-name game with lots of hype (like Braid and Aquaria had).
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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2008, 09:41:13 PM »

Music Painter looks like an interesting idea, but in execution I'm not sure it's up to much. Good for them for trying something new though.

Everything else looked like derivative arse.

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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2008, 09:59:14 PM »

Gah. That MSN video site is a mess. Who had the idea to make a tiny, blurry, right-justified video player completely overshadowed by everything else on the page? And it's freezing every few seconds for me as well. Lips Sealed

The dream build play site isn't any better. The next arrow overlaps the links for pages 6-10, and the 32 pages stretch off the screen. It lumps just 9 games at a time, sorted by title or creator (only useful if you know what you're searching for) with tiny poorly stretched screenshots and no indication of gameplay unless you expend the energy to go into each game. And of course, thumbnails go to a screenshot instead of the laughably tiny game information. And all there is a little blurb. No link to the (apparently required) gameplay video. No link to the creators' sites.

Heck, I had trouble finding An Awesome Game on that site. Wasn't expecting it to be titled AAG, have most of the title cut out, and have a drawing of blurry cleavage as its thumbnail. (Trying to make sure you're on the first page, eh? Not as shameless as the ones who put periods in their acronyms, I guess.)
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« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2008, 10:10:42 PM »

The next arrow overlaps the links for pages 6-10, and the 32 pages stretch off the screen.

I just had to take a picture of that.



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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2008, 03:53:02 AM »


Heck, I had trouble finding An Awesome Game on that site. Wasn't expecting it to be titled AAG, have most of the title cut out, and have a drawing of blurry cleavage as its thumbnail. (Trying to make sure you're on the first page, eh? Not as shameless as the ones who put periods in their acronyms, I guess.)

In submission, the title wouldn't fit. Although I am taking advantage of the 360s naming scheme.
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