For more information, click here.

The new version includes a few fixes with the “Live Free” and “Die Hard” Trophies, and also a few extremely minor bugs with the AI, and a new intro cartoon!

All you need to do is download the new version from the Xbox Live Marketplace.  Your Topscores and Trophies will remain intact!

Here is a bit of a change list:

• Added “Hide Texts” option (remove the various text in the game that might clutter the screen for uber players)
• Added rank in the score descriptions (so each score entry you see what your appropriate global rank is)
• Fixed DieHard and LiveFree achievements (see above details)
• Added Cartoon intro
• Rearranged “Play” menu
• Fixed minor AI related crash (too many of red growing minibosses caused game to crash)

During this holiday event, players can compete their scores/ranks with other players globally in the 5 categories and win a Microsoft Point.

Click here to see the challenge details

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.

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.

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?

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

It’s come a long way, from being a Geometry Wars clone, to today, just 19 days from it’s launch on Xbox Live Community Games.

SCRUM

About a month ago, we switched to SCRUM, an agile development methodology. This was so we could optimize our schedule to work towards what was then an “unknown launch date” for XBLCG. Only a few days later, the November 19th go live date for XBLCG was announced, so we had tangable dates to work towards.

We are using sprints of 2 weeks in durration, with the last sprint set to end November 14th, and as our last sprint, it focuses on polishing everything to 110%. especially gameplay mechanics.

We are currently on our 2nd to last sprint, ending tomorrow. This sprint we are finishing up the remaining major feature work: the global leaderboard and the last multiplayer versus level.

After launch i’ll spend some time to do a post mortum of the game, and include some more in-depth technical details, but for the next 19 days I’m in crunch time, and so wont be around much to enjoy this grand old internet