{"id":435,"date":"2008-02-21T02:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-02-21T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:11:40","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-the-democratization-of-game-distribution-peer-review-community-all-the-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/02\/21\/xbox-live-arcade-the-democratization-of-game-distribution-peer-review-community-all-the-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade: The Democratization of Game Distribution, Peer Review, Community, all the Good Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=417\">speculated<\/a>, Microsoft today announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference<\/a> that they will open XNA and Xbox Live Arcade to developers.<\/p>\n<p>It is called Xbox Live Community games and was described like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Developer makes and submits an XNA game using their \u201cdeveloper\u201c\u00b4profile.<\/li>\n<li>The game is \u201cpeer reviewed\u201d by other developer to be screened for misuse of IP and \u201cobjectionable content\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Game is made available to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details were spare on monetization, but the titles shown did say \u201climited trial\u201d etc., so there seemed to an economic model in place.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the good-guy rhetoric used: <strong>Community <\/strong>(obviously), the <strong>democratization <\/strong>of development and distribution, <strong>peer review<\/strong> (academia). As always, there may be some devil in the details.<\/p>\n<p>The other interesting thing was that the games shown really did have an indie aesthetic &#8211; \u201clow-fi\u201d hand drawn graphics, offbeat themes. In other words, it seems that we do have an audience for games with an indie sensibility.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I felt that half of the barrier for &#8220;indie games&#8221; was not distribution but the lack of an audience, and now it does looks like the \u201cYoutube\u201d phenomenon: Low production values, the feeling of something different, but a personal connection to the creator.<\/p>\n<p>Indie has arrived, hasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As speculated, Microsoft today announced at Game Developers Conference that they will open XNA and Xbox Live Arcade to developers. It is called Xbox Live Community games and was described like this: Developer makes and submits an XNA game using their \u201cdeveloper\u201c\u00b4profile. The game is \u201cpeer reviewed\u201d by other developer to be screened for misuse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/02\/21\/xbox-live-arcade-the-democratization-of-game-distribution-peer-review-community-all-the-good-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xbox Live Arcade: The Democratization of Game Distribution, Peer Review, Community, all the Good Stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}