Independent Games or Indie Games & Super Meat Boy

Indie Games are games that are created by an individual person or a small group of people and this is without a game publisher finical support.  Independent games focus more on innovation but do rely a lot on digital distribution. Digital Distribution is where a game is sold online, and indie games have their own online game section on the Xbox live market place.  Most of the indie games on the market place give you two options it will say buy for a certain amount of Microsoft points or it will say trial run this gives the option to the audience to try the game out before they even buy it, it also gives a image to show the audience a small preview of what the game looks like.  Some of the best Known Indie games are Super Meat Boy, journey and Bastion. However the most Known and the most successful Indie game today created by  Mojang , Minecraft is focused on Creating and building it allows players to create whatever they want by the use of textured cubes in a 3D world.  In 2010 the game had a spike in sales of over 25,000 purchases in 24 hours. On January 12, 2011, Minecraft passed 1,000,000 purchases, By April 2011, Minecraft had made 23 million in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game, and over 1 million sales of the beta version On July 1, 2011 Minecraft passed the 10 million registered users mark. As of November 7, 2011, Minecraft had over 16 million registered users, and over 4 million purchases. As of May 25, 2012, the game has sold over six million copies on PC and over nine million copies across all platforms.

Independent games do not have what it takes to compete with AAA games and Blockbuster games this is because of the new technology being used by Blockbuster games like in games such as FIFA 13 this game uses new technology to make the players look as real as possible and to make the stadiums look like they do in reality and indie games can not stay up to date with this kind of change.  The reason more people buy and play blockbuster games is because they are more realistic and make the player feel like they are actually in the game but with indie games this is not the case and so people would rather play a more realistic game than a indie game which they will get bored and tired of, however independent games are cheaper to produce than AAA games and also Blockbuster games, due to the fact that they do not create physical copies because they are sold online this also saves money.

Super Meat Boy

Super Meat boy is an Independent Game and it is available to buy or download trial on, Xbox Live, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, this game was created by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. It is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's October 2008 Flash game Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox 360  in 2010, on Windows PCs in 2010, on Mac OS X a year later in November 2011, and on Linux in December 2011 as a part of the Humble Indie Bundle and in May 2012 as a part of the Humble Indie Bundle V.  By April 2009, it had garnered over 840,000 views at Newgrounds, and 8 million overall

The story of Super Meat boy is about a cube of meat that must go on an adventure to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl; for the evil Dr. Fetus.  The game starts off with Super Meat boy and his Girl Friend hugging and all happy the Dr. Fetus comes over and punches Bandage and kidnaps hers.  It is a platform game so as Super meat boy goes thorough different obstacles such as high mountains he must jump shooting blades a tornado of swords and every time he gets to Dr. Fetus he will magically disappear then after completing the final level Super Meat Boy finds Dr. Fetus and to his disappear Dr. Fetus is Burning the whole forest down and gets into his chainsaw machine and it gives you an extra level were you have to run from this machine while dodging flying, swinging blades and once he has hid from the machine it gets caught into the blades and destroys its self, at the end Super Meat finally confronts Dr Fetus but before h can save his girl friend he ejects from the machine and flies away with his girlfriend it ends on Super Meat boy looking into the distance while the forest is burning down and his squirrel friends are lying dead next to him. This ends the chapter.

I haven’t bought the whole game just downloaded the trial Version an in my opinion this is a brilliant game.  It is a exciting game and the trial game ends you on him not getting his girlfriend back which means that it leads the player to believe how is he going to get his girlfriend back this is a cliff hanger and this is a very good techniques used by companies in trial games because it leaves the player wondering what is going to happen and the majority of the time it will end up in the player buying the game to see what happens, this is a platform game and when I was playing it if I could not complete a level I would want to complete it more and it kept me involved with the game and kept me wanting to play it.  And it also require thinking how you are going to get past on obstacle.

This is  Super Meat Boy Official website: http://supermeatboy.com/

On this website it allows you to blog about the game, also to find about news about the new game or updates available for the game it also has a store section where it is possible to buy Official Super Meat Boy merchandise.