February 18, 2013
2/18/2013
As of this moment, Short Circuit is about 58% of the way through peer review. The last few reviews have literally had nothing negative to say about the game. In fact, one of the most recent reviews stated that they had gone all the way through the “Evil List” and found nothing. For you non-indie developers, the “Evil List” is a list of tests that developers reviewing a game should perform upon a game in an attempt to make the game crash or give specific errors. They are common issues that result in failing reviews for most indie games. The fact that my game passed all the evil tests, means that there is a very low chance of it actually failing the review process now. At any rate, the game only needs a few more positive reviews and it will be ready to publish on the Xbox. I’ve decided to not allow it to automatically publish once it’s approved, instead I’m going to select the date upon which it will be released. I think that I will be able to give away the codes for the game before I actually make it available on the Xbox Marketplace, and if so then I’m going to host and close out the lottery before I release the game so that the winners will receive their codes at least the day before I release the game. Yes, that means they will be able to play Short Circuit before everyone else.