Effective today, developers cannot purchase or renew annual memberships in the program, though active developers may continue building their games until a year from now, Sept.
On that date, all publishing to the Indie Games Marketplace on Xbox will cease. For consumers, games on the Indie Marketplace still will be available for purchase until it closes "around September Xbox Live Indie Games was an initiative that began with outreach to developers in , a year after the Xbox 's launch.
It debuted to the public in late as "Xbox Live Community Games. On that console, Microsoft's indie outreach has been replaced by the ID Xbox program, a more formal and managed approach to finding, publishing and promoting independent games. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
Thanks to Microsoft's incorporation of indie games, many amazing titles are now available on the Xbox One. From old classics to modern masterpieces, there's a little bit of everything when it comes to indie games. Despite the lack of support from major publishers, indie games have delivered some of the best games of this generation.
Overcooked is some of the most fun you can have with a party game. Up to four players can work together to make meals, trying to coordinate in some of the most hectic ways possible. The premise is simple enough, with a charmingly basic story and art design. The one thing about Overcooked is that it's a game were to make it as fun as possible, you want to get some friends involved.
Overcooked is most fun when there are more people in the kitchen, enhancing the hectic experience to great effect. One of the most innovative first-person shooter games, Superhot is a fantastic indie game that originated as a browser game.
The full version offers some of the most unique mechanics the genre has ever seen. When you're not moving, the game will go into slow motion giving the game strategy elements to plan out your next moves. These mechanics make Superhot incredibly fun, and worth space on your hard drive.
It's rare for a first-person shooter to make such bold moves to the formula, but it's something Superhot did to great effect. Dead Cells is a roguelike game that has something for everyone. It takes the incredibly popular Metroidvania style of games and adds in roguelike elements to make for one of the most fun games in the genre. For the unaware, a roguelike is a game where everything is lost after death, forcing a restart of the game while the layout of each area is randomized.
Dead Cells, like all roguelikes, is an incredibly easy game to pick up at any point. No run is ever quite the same, giving Dead Cells a ton of replayability. If you're a fan of platformers, Celeste is a game that should be in your game library.
The pixel art is beautiful, with incredibly tight controls to make for some of the most fun platforming you can have. Celeste has won a multitude of awards, including one for Best Independent Game at the Game Awards in With a genre that has fallen off in recent years, Celeste fills the hole that platformers left behind.
ID Xbox games are sold digitally in the Windows and Xbox One stores alongside all other games, and have access to the same discovery tools: Recommendations, Trending, a curated Spotlight section, and more. Only titles that want to feature the full set of Xbox Live features, including Achievements and Multiplayer, or that want to be featured in the main Xbox One store are required to be part of ID Xbox.
If you are interested in publishing with a smaller set of features, the Xbox Live Creators Program might be the path for you. For Xbox One titles, we have release managers who will help you navigate the certification process, and we provide clear documentation on certification requirements, such as acquiring ESRB or other ratings. For Windows games with Xbox Live, the cert process is quick and simple.
Feel free to contact us via email or follow us on Twitter! We aim to answer all email and tweets in a timely manner, but we appreciate your patience if circumstances mean we have to take a bit longer to reply. If you want access to the full set of Xbox Live capabilities, be featured in the main Xbox One store, or receive dedicated marketing and development support, you will want to be part of the ID Xbox program. And of course, all developers are welcome and encouraged to join ID Xbox to get the latest news for independent game developers from Microsoft.
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