During the Xbox Live Indie Games panel at GDC, a who’s who of XBLIG developers (James Silva, Nathan Fouts, Robert Boyd and Ian Stocker) talked about their experiences, successes and failures self-publishing on the service. Perhaps of more use to budding XBLIG developers are some facts about the service, including the revenue split between Microsoft and the developer, as well as some gameplay restrictions.
For anyone who publishes an Xbox Live Indie Game, Microsoft takes 30 percent of the revenue, leaving 70 percent for the game maker. Even more interesting are some of the restrictions for games. James Silva of Ska Studios said it’s impossible to have an XBLIG title where the player kills nazis, for example.
“That’s like an inherent human right that’s been taken away from us,” Silva said. “We grew up on killing Nazis.” Silva then went on to provide an anecdote about a game concept he had, about a burly mountain man who hunts people, but it turns out XBLIG isn’t murder-friendly, either.
We’ve followed up with Microsoft for some more information on the guidelines of Xbox Live Indie Games.
XBLIG facts: Nazi-killing a no-no, revenue a yes-yes originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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