Microsoft announces first 25 indie games for the Xbox One

This week the gaming community turns its focus to GDC. The annual conference for game developers will play host to a few announcements from Microsoft. Nosotros're looking forward to hearing about DirectX 12 and how it'll impact gaming on the Xbox One, Windows Phone and Windows 8 in the near futurity. That proclamation takes place in ii days, but Microsoft did share some fun Xbox Ane news today. Microsoft has only 25 indie games that are coming out on the Xbox One.

Remember ID@Xbox? Information technology's the cocky-publishing program for Xbox One that will help indie game makers. It'll aid indie developers put their games on the Xbox One without the help of a publisher. Effectively cut out the middleman and allowing more great games on the Xbox One.

Today at GDC, the ID@Xbox team has shared news most 25 games that are coming to Xbox Ane through the self-publishing programme. Here are those 25 games and a description explaining each.

"1001 Spikes" past Nicalis – This hardcore side-scroller features precise controls and a degree of difficulty that ways starting with 1001 lives is not at all a guarantee you can make information technology through the game! Every level is custom designed to be beaten… barely. The game likewise includes co-op and cutthroat multiplayer modes.

"Calibre x Racing Series" by Bongfish GmbH – "Calibre 10 Racing Series" is a spiritual successor to "Harms Way." The game is entirely multiplayer in a new experience that combines action-packed racing with fast-paced offset person shooting.

"CastleStorm" by Zen Studios – It's Knights vs. Vikings in "CastleStorm," a super genre brew-up of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! "CastleStorm" features a story-driven solo campaign, a custom castle editor, online multiplayer, co-op modes, and more than.

"Chariot" by Frima – "Chariot" is a humorous physics-based couch co-op platformer in which a brave princess and her suitor acquit a funeral wagon through ancient mines, fending off swarms of looters while amassing riches, to coffin the King'southward remains in a worthy aureate-filled tomb.

"Chuck'due south Claiming 3D" by Niffler – From the design veteran behind the classic game "Scrap's Challenge," comes "Chuck'south Claiming 3D," a fiendishly addictive puzzler that'southward packed with features that volition tease the brain and claiming the fingers.

"Contrast" by Compulsion Games – "Contrast" is a 2d/3D adventure game, set in a surreal, 1920s, film noir dreamscape. Yous must help Didi explore the mysteries surrounding her family, past using your ability to shift at volition betwixt the 3D world and your 2D shadow.

"Divekick Improver Edition +" by Iron Galaxy Studios – "Divekick" is the earth's first-e'er ii-button fighting game! Now anyone tin experience the thrill of fighting games without memorizing complex combos and finger-contorting button presses.

"Forced" by BetaDwarf ApS – One- to four-actor co-op arcade adventure with puzzles and tactical elements. You lot are cast every bit slaves in the toughest fantasy gladiator schoolhouse of them all, condemned to fight equally a gladiator and eventually win your freedom.

"FRU" by Through Games – "Fru" is a Kinect-based puzzle platformer in which the player utilizes both a joystick and their torso to control the game. In fact, in "Fru," the role player'southward silhouette is used to reveal what lies beneath the world at first glance. "Fru's" gameplay changes according to the actor'southward shape, pose and movement.

"Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition" by DrinkBox Studios – "Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition" is an activity-packed, second brawler/platformer that alternates between the worlds of the living and the dead.

"Gunscape" by Blowfish Studios – At its heart, "Gunscape" is an FPS construction kit: A game with solid action gameplay, a welcoming arroyo to map edifice and a huge toolbox of iconic weapons, monsters and level elements that can be extensively combined to create new and exciting gameplay experiences.

"Habitat" by 4gency – "Habitat" is a space-themed strategy game set in Earth's orbit, where you lead a team of engineers to salve humanity by building a infinite station out of an orbiting wasteland of space junk.

"Hyper Light Drifter" by Centre Car – "Hyper Light Out-of-stater" is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the all-time eight-flake and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

"Information technology Draws a Carmine Box" by Other Ocean – "It Draws a Blood-red Box" is a chaotic viii-player eSport jumping jetpack future arena ball game that is as inspired past "Bomberman" and "Smash Bros." equally it is past cans of soda, paint-by-number books, and driving 5 miles faster than the speed limit.

"Nutjitsu" by NinjaBee – "Nutjitsu" is a superlative-down, arcade-manner game for Xbox One. Players have control of the ninja squirrel on his quest to reclaim his association's honor. Featuring two game modes, 5 power ups, 25 ranks, three distinct enemies and 15 levels, this HTML5 based title is coming to your dojo in early on spring.

"Pinball Arcade" by FarSight Studios – "Pinball Arcade" features verbal recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern Pinball® and Gottlieb® together in one game. Every flipper, bumper, sound result, and brandish pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing item.

"Q.U.B.East. Director's Cutting" past Toxic Games – "Q.U.B.Due east. Director's Cut" is a outset-person game that faces the player with a series of brain-teasing puzzles. The player uses loftier tech gloves to dispense different types of cube in the environment – unravelling conundrums ranging from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

"Riptide GP2" past Vector Unit – Featuring dynamic racing on fully interactive h2o surfaces, "Riptide GP2" sets the gold standard in modern water racing games. Take control of rocket powered hydro jets to race through futuristic cityscapes, bung yourself off sky-loftier jumps and bust out dozens of expiry defying stunts.

"Roundabout" by No Goblin – "Roundabout" is an open world driving puzzle game where you command a constantly rotating limousine! Selection upwards passengers, discover cloak-and-dagger collectibles, take on dangerous missions, and autumn in honey while reliving the 1977 rise to fame story of Georgio Manos.

"Sixty Second Shooter Prime" past Happion Laboratories – "Sixty Second Shooter Prime" is a twin stick shooter with a sixty-2nd time limit. This new Prime version brings a graphics upgrade, a new soundtrack, infinity mode and social leaderboards.

"Spectra: 8bit Racing" by Gateway Interactive – From new studio Gateway Interactive and Chipzel (the amazing chip-tune artist behind the "Super Hexagon" music) comes "Spectra," a fast paced retro style racing game destined to get your heart pumping and examination your skill similar no other!

"Strike Suit Cipher" by Born Ready Games – "Strike Suit Zippo: Director's Cut" is a space combat game that throws players into huge, intense space battles where the very fate of Globe rests on your dogfighting skills.

"Super Fourth dimension Force" by Capybara – "Super Time Strength" is an action-packed platformer with a time-travelling twist! Have control of upward to 16 unique characters, and battle across half-dozen different fourth dimension periods, from the long-agone past to the far-away future.

"The Final Tinker" past Mimimi Productions – In a world where creativity has given manner to conflict, a young street child living in the slums of Colortown seeks to restore the spark of imagination to his hometown. A mannerly blend of modern platforming and multicolored style, "The Last Tinker" is a i-of-a-kind risk.

"Wulverblade" by Darkwind Media – "Wulverblade" is a side-scrolling brawler created in the spirit of the arcade greats. Information technology's 120AD and the Roman army has seized control of Britannia. Their goal: march northward and conquer the island with brutal and encarmine efficiency. The v,000 stiff 9th Legion are preparing for war, but little exercise they know what lies in wait for them.

We're very excited to meet these games in activeness and can't expect to actually play them on our Xbox One. Last month we showed you guys and gals two of those games – Nutjitsu and Worms Battlefield. You actually don't accept to wait for Nutjitsu on your Xbox One to play it. The game is currently available for download in the Windows Store for your Surface and other Windows 8 machines.

Personally I'k really happy to hear that Hyper Light Drifter is coming to the Xbox Ane! I've been watching the progress of that game since information technology was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Cheque out the trailer below to see the game (yeah I know that'southward the PS4 version of the promo, but it's the best out at the moment).

The games above volition be available in the Xbox One game store in the coming weeks. Nosotros'll definitely keep you posted on the status of these games.

What indie game are you looking forward to the near on the Xbox I?

Source: Xbox Wire

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