July 19th, 2010
The free update to Square Off is now up for Peer Review and should only be a few days away from release. We have finally finished all of the bug fixing and testing required to get the game released with the level of quality that you expect from Gnomic games. Here is what some xbox peer reviewers have been saying so far…
“Nice Job!!! No evil checklist issues, fun and addictive gameplay!!!” – Jennifer (Beta Cell 3D)
“You put alot of effort into this for a free update…” – QuimbyRBG
“Pass, Great Job!” – DigitalDNA
“… that’s a lot of effort put in for the fans (since it probably won’t result in as much of a sales spike as effort put in). Not that there’s anything wrong with that – it’s admirable, but surprising.” – Arrogancy Games
“Oh yeah this game rocks! PASS PASS PASS” – Jeremy (JForce Games)
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June 5th, 2010
Sale Price? Sold!
Since we managed to shift 5000 copies at $3, we’ve decided to drop the price to just $1, which is ridiculous value (in our opinions). There are many reasons for doing this, the main one being that on the Xbox Live Indie Games services, $1 seems to be the sweet spot for getting sales and snowballing the popularity of your game. We’re calling it a “sale” for now, as if it doesn’t work out we may put the price back up in 3 months.
The Free Update
We’re still working on this. It contains loads of improvements and fixes, particularly for the deathmatch mode. Here’s a little teaser screenshot of the new final level:
Good work Adam, it looks really pretty.
New Team Members
We’ve had some extremely valuable new people join our team. Josh Stewart has blessedly offered to take on the role of Lead Tester (aka QA and admin guru). He’s set us up hosted SVN for source control and an online bug tracking system which has been incredibly useful. He’s also proved quite proficient at finding bugs. I seriously never imagined there could be so many bugs, but at least they’re all logged with detailed descriptions and even screen shots and videos. Nice work Josh
Ben Schroeder has also offered to help on the testing and coding side. For now he’s mainly helping with testing and bug reporting, but he has an Xbox which is extremely helpful as it means someone other than myself can test the Xbox specific features. When we start work on the next project, he’ll bring his substantial skills to bear on the code.
Hacked!
You may have noticed this. There were a few days when our site was down because a wordpress exploit had allowed some script kiddie to infiltrate and overwrite our homepage with some Jihadi nonsense! That was a bit of a fright… thanks Josh for helping get it all back to normal.
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May 10th, 2010
Hey all, don’t let the quietness on the blog front fool you, behind the scenes we have been hard at work planning our next move and an update to Square Off! There will be some bug fixes and some cool new additions to the game for free!
We will reveal all when we release it soon so stay tuned…
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April 9th, 2010
negativegamer.com by Jon “Pendelton” (-1/-10)
” It’s got a somewhat quirky story, hand-drawn graphics, a touch of dual-stick shooter and a multiplayer component. More than any other game I’ve seen on the service, it does these things well.”
Many thanks to Jon for taking the time to review our game!
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March 27th, 2010
Co-optimus.com by Katrina Pawlowski (4.5/5)
“Great music, quirky, awesome animations and art, 4 player co-op and aliens. What more do you need?”
Thanks Katrina and Co-optimus! I also did a developer interview recently with Shin Hogosha, check it out on ForceDisconnect.com.
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March 15th, 2010
Thanks to Ashley King, aka Overlordror for taking the time to play and review our game: http://gamerlimit.com/2010/03/indie-spotlight-review-square-off/. She scored it a healthy 8/10.
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February 12th, 2010
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February 11th, 2010
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February 11th, 2010
Thanks to Dhalamar of www.WastedSeconds.com who posted this review. It’s not quite as gushing as some of our other reviews but it is fair. He’s one of those gamers that doesn’t dig local multiplayer, so the lack of Live online multiplayer was a huge drawback for him. Sigh, back to the network coding it is then 
I’ve also been scouring the ‘net and found another couple of reviews that popped up quietly. Thanks to juice from www.XboxLiveIndieGames.co.uk for this sweet review and also thanks to user reviewers Emuholic (again) and wargamer17 for posting reviews at http://www.XblaRatings.com.
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January 29th, 2010
You can now find links and excerpts for all the Square Off reviews in once place. The latest entry is a very thorough review at digitalquarters.blogspot.com by Shin Hogosha. Thanks Shin!
Oh, and thanks to mattplaysvideogames for talking about us (7:00) in his video blog. For that he scored himself a free Square Off code to give away. See here if you’d like to win it.
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