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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 24, 2009
Summary Sentence:
Sophomores Selling Audiball Game
Full Summary:
Many students like to play video games, but Literature, Communication, and Culture sophomores Holden Link and Cory Johnson, and College of Computing sophomore Ian Guthridge are selling their own game. Audiball was launched for sale during the first week of Xbox Community Games in November.
Holden Link, Cory Johnson, and Ian GuthridgeMany students like to play video games, but Literature, Communication, and Culture sophomores Holden Link and Cory Johnson, and College of Computing sophomore Ian Guthridge are selling their own game. Audiball was launched for sale during the first week of Xbox Community Games in November.
Link and Johnson are studying Computational Media, a joint degree program between Literature, Communication, and Culture and the College of Computing. Guthridge is studying computer science. Their idea for Audiball came last February when the Georgia Tech's Honors Program Student Challenge Fund enabled them to attend the Game Developers Conference.
"We realized that some four million people have an Xbox 360 and a guitar controller, but there was only one type of game that can be played using that," explains Link. "So what we did was to require the guitar controller to be used in a completely different scheme."
While developing their game, Microsoft announced the launch of a community games section to allow designers to create for the New Xbox Experience. This encouraged the students to push their boundaries. "We knew the theory of creating the game. We knew the algorithms, we knew how to code, we knew about object-oriented design. We knew all these things from books and projects we'd done before, but it's very different when you implement a project to this scale," said Johnson.
Audiball launched on New Xbox Experience under the company name Indiecisive Games, an homage to the difficulty the three had in selecting a name as well as their love of the indie spirit. They are in the early stages of developing a new game to be bigger in scope than Audiball. Audiball can be purchased in the Xbox Community Games site on Xbox Live for 200 Microsoft points ($2.50).
