I re-submitted Beat IT! with new box art and price. It passed review again and is shown on this site in the Game Catalog with the new box art, but I didn't get an email saying it had passed, and the box art hasn't changed on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Does anyone know why?

This is really interesting: http://www.retronator.com/XboxPopularityMeter/Community

Beat IT! is now 80 points because it was a launch title and has recently only been selling about 15 a month. If you had a product in a shop like that, you would drop the price too. Supply and Demand. It used to be 200 points because that was the minimum, but now that there's 80 points, it only makes sense to drop the price.

[quote user="Nick Gravelyn"]For what it's worth, XboxIndies.com is not, nor do I intend for it to become, a review website. We plan to feature and highlight games we like, but we're not a review site. We're just a catalog, news feed, and a twitter account. :) [/quote] I think it's hypocritical that my post got ...

I dropped the price of Beat IT! to 80 points, to revive the sales and try it out (at 200 points I'm on about 15 sales per month). Lets see what happens...

I got an Email today saying [Quote] Game Approved: Beat IT!‏ Dear MonsuneMoon, The XNA team is delighted to tell you that your game has been approved by your fellow Creators. You should see the game appear within 48 hours of the time of this message on the Indie Games area of Xbox LIVE Marketplace. ... [/Quote] Is that just ...

They did this in the conkers bad fur day remake. I think they just used a screen aligned 2d sprite.

Your problem is that the picture is too big. 5000x4800 is huge. Try splitting the image into tiles. then you need to check which tiles are on the screen and only render them.

MonsuneMoon means "Monsoon Moon" from the Mighty Boosh. I had to spell it like that because the real spelling was taken. "I rain down the pain, I’m Monsoon Moon, I’m coming atcha like a beam, like a ray, like a laser, don’t try and stop me I’m quick. Like lightning. I’m frightening. Oowww! Chika-chika!Yeah? You want a piece of ...

Look up A* (or A Star) pathfinding. Its the simplest most effective method in my opinion.