I think it's helpful to look at Google Play. They used to have a "New Apps" category, where all new apps would be shown. That was important, because it gives a chance for a new, unknown app or game to get discovered, even without marketing.
But they…
The categorization is intentional. That's how the people at OUYA are handling curation. It's a pretty cool system, actually - read more about it here: http://i.imgur.com/xnLMWKy.png?r
This is how their curation system works, Glenn. Read more on joystiq's piece mirrored here: http://i.imgur.com/xnLMWKy.png?r
Basically, all games start off equal, in the sandbox. From there, it has to prove it's a good game to get into one of the ot…
Congratulations to everyone on the OUYA team and all the developers who've launched a game!
On that note, can someone post screenshots of the store, or a list of the available games?
Piers said:
Having worked on Rift I can say with certainty that what mlang says is true. Trial and error, but you'll get there I'm sure :)
Wow, OUYA is just jacked up full of old Trion dudes, isn't it? Just how many of you guys did Cha…
Well, I'm glad that got resolved! I've been hoping Pug would get that sorted for a while. Don't know what else happened, but Piers, you get things done.
Episode 3 is up! We finish our coverage of the CREATE game jam entries, including the Star Fox-esque "Sky Arena":
OUYA Radar - Episode #3
@Shiels
We've got a lot of games we want to cover, but we're always looking for new stuff! We'd need gameplay …
I think you're talking about the font for the menus, and I'm not sure about that - though you can look fonts up online easily.
If, however, you're asking about the OUYA's logo, the font for that is something very similar to Chica Gogo NF. It's a che…
I've been a big fan for a long time, but it's been hard showing your game off to people. All of your videos were quite lengthy, and all the cool aspects of your game were spread out over a ton of different videos. It was hard to show a lot of the go…
Oh, and of course there's always the usual suspects for indie press. Pixel Prospector has a great list for this:
http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-indie-game-sites/
I'm the lead editor over at http://www.OUYAGamingSource.com/. We're definitely going to be reviewing games, and we've already been covering a lot of OUYA titles, including the CREATE game jam entries. We're making a serious video series, too. Check …
Well, two things. For one, consider the source of the quotes. One of them is by a medium-level guy giving a presentation to a couple dozen people. The other quote was given by the CEO at a massive public press event.
The second thing is that I don't…
New quote from Uhrman from yesterday: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3962898/ouya-julie-uhrman-interview-dice-2013Verge: "OUYA will filter for pornography, not quality"
On whether the market will fill up with low quality games:"It's a possibility,…
I definitely like the "read games" idea. It reminds me a bit of the "Remind me again later" button that just got added to Greenlight on Steam.
Sure, some people will game the system with false updates, etc, but not everyone will, so it would still h…
Very interesting, thanks for the link, Dreamwriter! I'd been curious to see more from some of the recent meet-ups, so that's just the kind of video I was looking for. :)
@Dreamwriter:I think part of the idea is to include tools in the ODK to help developers handle game saves, thus actually making it easier, not harder. It's possible there is a middle-ground, though; include a standard save-game model that is as easi…
I thought there was a thread on this forum about this issue, here it is: http://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/6/technical-requirements-checklist-for-odk
"Yes, we will have a requirements list at launch, but we don't have a list yet. Our goal is to keep …
Where did you hear that, Dreamwriter? Everything I've read from them since the beginning has said the exactly opposite. They're going to let on any game that fulfills a few very basic requirements, such as having some free-to-play portion, and not b…
@Shiels, the point isn't really whether you promoted your game before or not. Either way, you're supposed to make a NEW game for this competition. If you've already been working on it before the competition was announced, it wouldn't be fair to ever…
Well, OUYA, Inc. is certainly a corporate entity. You can look up their info on the online government corporation databases. But it would probably be easier to write about if you didn't have to say "Today, OUYA released the OUYA." ;)
Yeah, I very much want to know if OUYA is claiming ownership of your IP for anything you submit in this competition. It wouldn't be too bad if it was just a normal game jam. But they're really positioning this contest as something where you'll make …
Well, that's really quite disappointing. It won't make a world of difference, but... still.
Since overclocking is purely software... is it in any way realistic to think OUYA might issue an update that would juice up the system a bit? It seems incred…
This thread seems like it could lead to discussion that would tread dangerously close to the possibly illegal (regardless of intent) discussions that were going on in the "Price point, what's yours?" thread. Of course, I am not a lawyer so I can't g…
WillzZz said:
Who sets the categories, how about any gamer with common sense?I do realize you're being sarcastic here, but maybe this isn't such a terrible idea. I'm a huge fan of tags. I think letting users create and set any tag they want f…
Oh cool! I've been watching you guys, waiting for this. :) The sonic spin dash-style gameplay looks quite fun, and the less block "OUYA version" mock-up looks much better. Hope you manage to pull that off!
Hicsy said:
This also means that OUYA must have ability to purchase easily - so the default button on game's landing page is 'install' and maybe optionally one publisher-set 'default' purchase button - the rest hidden in a subfolder
This sou…
Kill Screen responded on twitter and cleared this up. Sounds like it is a proper game jam after all. :)https://twitter.com/KillScreenMag/status/289774174170402817
"Kill Screen @KillScreenMag@bluecollarart @playouya we will clear this up soon when …
Now a dev from Kactus Games tells me they were told the exact opposite. https://twitter.com/B_doggio/status/289607233690542081Screenshot of the e-mail: http://i.imgur.com/0lCFw.jpgThis is what it says:"We're going to beef up the language in the offi…
