INDIE GAME MAKER ISSUES

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IG Maker Sux, well my opinion i didn't purchased it just tried the demo :P its poor.
But yes it can export to xbox live arcade so you may use it for that.

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there is one game on xbox that uses indie game maker, but it was made by the people who programmed indie game maker. also, i haven't seen anyone beyond the program creators using IGM for xbox development.

to clarify on this a little further even though very few people here care about 360 development, an easy game maker for xbox 360 is almost useless because of the peer review process. so you might be able to make a game using something like indie game maker (enterbrain makes this), but you won't be able to pass review without more detailed knowledge of the 360 framework (xna) and the community standards. this means you will not be able to distribute your game.

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it has nothing to do with discrimination, the way the rules are set up just make it difficult for someone using an easy creation middleware to pass review. there are a few standards that you need to manually code in to get past peer review, along with other things that most beginner developers wouldn't think about when making a game (title safe area, proper text sizes, content rules). using something like IGM suggests the person making the game doesn't know as much about programming, hence why they are using IGM to begin with, but then they will fail review because they don't have the knowledge needed to pass and fix their game.

for example, let's say you made a game in IGM with saving. you'd fail because you don't have a standard save set-up, because you need to be able to handle the user pulling out the memory unit multiple times while saving, which would crash the game. someone using IGM probably doesn't know how to do this, if they did, they probably wouldn't be using IGM to begin with (p.s. i heard IGM isn't great).