This Wednesday: Band of Bugs crawls onto XBLA (ick!)

by Christopher Grant { Jun 18th 2007 at 2:25PM }

Fresh from 2007's Independant Gaming Festival, and hot on the heels of the open call for 2008, NinjaBee's indie strategy title, Band of Bugs, is crawling onto your Xbox Live Arcade plate this Wednesday, joining the enterprising dev's other XBLA titles, Outpost Kaloki and Cloning Clyde. For the going rate of 800 MS Points ($10) you'll get a story-based campaign, a four-person multiplayer mode with Xbox Live support, a built-in level editor (you can share levels with friends, pretty cool!), and another reason to drag your Xbox Live Vision cam out of the junk drawer (it's supported in multiplayer modes).

Gallery: Band of Bugs (XBLA)

Tags: BandofBugs, NinjaBee, XBLA, XBLAWednesday

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kite @ Jun 18th 2007 2:46PM

It might be my imagination, but it reminded me of fire emblem...

Then again, I love this kind of games, so I would be tempted to try it out.

Mike @ Jun 18th 2007 3:01PM

Try $5 and I'll consider it MS. >sigh<

sheppy @ Jun 18th 2007 3:04PM

Mike, your post reminded me of Cagcast 79. Where Wombat says "I never thought we would see a day and age where $10 for a game seems too expensive, but congrats guys! You did it!"

Joe Smith @ Jun 18th 2007 3:30PM

Wow, $10, ooooo -- how am I going to eat AND get this game???

Jeez, you'd think they were charging $100 or something. Let's see, for $10 I could buy 2/3 of a CD, or half a DVD, or 3 Lattes, or lunch.

Somehow, I think that I can swing $10 for a cool fun game from a small indie developer without having to make my kids go hungry.

Bc @ Jun 18th 2007 3:34PM

What is that song in the game? I want it!

cool8man @ Jun 18th 2007 3:50PM

First people complain that there aren't enough games being released for Xbox Live Arcade, then when there are plenty of games released people complain that the games cost too much. It is impossible to please everyone. I think if you've made a brand new game charging $10 is reasonable. Charging $5 for old emulated arcade games is what seems unreasonable to me.

Vidikron @ Jun 18th 2007 4:02PM

@6

I agree to a degree I have no issues with new games being $10. These games don't make themselves... and the devs need a cut after MS takes their fees.

BUT I also think $5 for old re-done classics is fair as well. On XBLA these games have had enhancements... updates graphics (original available too), leaderboards, achievments, and most have online play. $5 seems fair to me. The people charging to much are Nintendo. They just drop ROM on emulators with zero enhancements and charge you $5+ for them.

AC-91 @ Jun 18th 2007 4:07PM

@ Pricing

I think $10 is VERY reasonable. A game like this is easily worth $15, but nobody would buy it like that. Have you seen the features on this? Look on the left hand side of the Xbox.com game page to check out all it supports. There are 50 levels!! User created content!!!

@ BC

I think the song is from the game! Great stuff.