SCRUM follow up

To follow up with my last post,  The use of SCRUM was successful for our project.  We went through a total of 3 sprints, with the last sprint being dedicated to “shipping” the game.

 
We had a few problems with having too much work, but everyone stayed on task, and we finally shipped on time, though we had to crunch through the weekend to do so.

Biology Battle Site update

On our official Biology Battle website, we’ve been busy adding content.  Trailers, screenshots, and explaining the gameplay mechanics.  So if you want to see the game without actually downloading it to an xbox, take a look at the site.

We just updated our Biology Battle pages with lots of content!   Click here to access the Biology Battle page, and then click the Game Guide drop down for all the goodies!

Scoring Mechanism

Not sure how we calculate your score?  This section explains it all in detail. Click here to see Scoring Mechanism

High Score Walkthrough

If you are scratching your head, wondering how on earth some of these people get scores of 100 million or more,  wonder no more!  In this section we show you all the tricks of the trade. Click here to see High Score Tips

Game Modes Guides

Want a little more info about all the game modes (lots of them!) in the game?  Here we explain them all.

Hello! Since we have finished launching Biology Battle, we finally had some time to update the screenshots and trailers on our site! please take a look! These show off the actual gameplay on the xbox360!

My favorite thing about the new look of Biology Battle is the fluid/smoke particles. Very impressive to me, and we wrote it What’s your favorite part of the new game or it’s video?

Biology Battle has officially been launched on Xbox Live Community Games!

If you have an xbox, you can download it directly from microsoft here.  (yes, you can download it to your xbox from a website!)

Are you are interested in seeing the history of Biology Battle?  Here’s a visual history of it’s year in making…

PS: we took down the PC demo for now, because it’s really just a tech demo, the Xbox version is much, much better.   Over the next week we will put an updated PC demo up, so don’t worry PC gamers, you’ll be able to see it soon too

-Jason

Jason was recently interviewed by Gamasutra: Topic – Interview: Novaleaf’s Swearingen talks injecting Biology Battle onto XNA Community Games , and appeared on their front page!  (also on GameSetWatch) In this post Jason talks about the costs involved in starting up a game studio, and the impact of doing so in the Kingdom of Thailand.