Pew Pew Pod - Xbox Live Indie Game

Pew Pew Pod is a frantic arcade shooter with strategic influences. Four unique weapons offer endless avenues of assault against the merciless enemy forces. There are six different, unrelenting game modes that can each be played with up to four players. Be the best with our global highscore boards divided amongst the gametypes!

AVAILABLE NOW ON XBOX LIVE INDIE GAMES!
http://badeggstudios.com/devblog/pew-pew-pod/
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[matthewdoucette]

A few more criticisms to one of my favorite XBLIG games :) ... The descriptive text of each game mode, the "what to do" text, is too small, and I have a 32" LCD TV which is ultra clear. In the global boards, don't show duplicate scores for the same player, as you only have 10 spots and that means you'll have one or two players dominate the list. And just pure feedback you may find interesting: I find myself favoriting the blue weapon above and beyond everything else.

[BadEggStudios]

Thanks for the feedback - the smaller text is something we never had a problem with in our testing, but have had a few complaints in the past few days. We'll definitely include that, and the high score duplicate bit. Can't believe how many little things there still are to fix, it's our first game and we're amazed of how much is still unfinished despite the hours we spent polishing. :)

[matthewdoucette]

Also, what do the left-over "pick ups" do? are they just points, not multipliers as in geo wars?

[BadEggStudios]

They're just an extra 2 points a piece. We decided to not make them multipliers because it adds a greater element of "are those points worth the risk?" whereas the multipliers are almost always worth the risk in geo wars.

[matthewdoucette]

Just bought it... but you are locking to the 12, 3, 6, 9 directions (as does EVERY multi-dre shooter on XBLIG)... please fix this! It's something you probably got use to over developing the game, and something gamers aren't educated enough or something to notice. Please my high scores did not share, I only see my own scores. Love the game though!!!

[BadEggStudios]

Hey - the axis bit makes perfect sense! Thanks for the heads up, we'll fool around with it for an update.

As for high scores - unless you don't have a Gold Profile (workaround peer-to-peer highscores), they should be showing up.

Glad you're enjoying it. The rough particle designs were definitely influenced by MY favorite indie game. :) Really though, it is my favorite on the service so far. Great job on DecX!

[ABL36]

@BadEggStudios I like it. It's got a better style than geometry wars

[trunks6262]

my roommate's cousin worked on this game :)

[K4rn4ge]

Cool game just bought it and recommended it to my friends! Great work and looking forward to your future games.

[matthewdoucette]

I now have #1 position in all 5 game modes (Xonatron)! :)

[matthewdoucette]

@BadEggStudios My two favorite indie games so far is Decimation X and Pew Pew Poo (or is it Pew Pew Pod?)... seriously. My game and yours. And we're about to release an online/friends scoreboard update to Dec-X soon.

[matthewdoucette]

@BadEggStudios The high scores now have showed up! I'm #1 in 3 of the 6 game modes! :)