Duality ZF 98 percentile rank and
#1 Xbox LIVE Community Game on GameTrailers.com.

Our April 2009 Trailer of Duality ZF has finally made it to GameTrailers.com.  The HD version has a rating of 8.9 with 17 votes  and the SD version has a rating of 6.7 with 23 votes.  Our average rating is 7.5 with 36 votes with an overall rank of 179 out of 8,649 game trailers, a 98 percentile rank.  This means 98% of the game trailers are rated lower or equal to ours.  Our overall Xbox LIVE Community Game rank is #1 of 26, or 100 percentile rank.  As good as it gets!  (These stats were updated on May 29th, 2009.)  Feel free to rate our video appropriately. 

This is our first mainstream game marketing.  Our previous marketing has targeted Xbox LIVE Community Games (XBLCG) and indie games fans.  The typical "gamers who love to hate games" have started to comment.  We will deal with such negativity as it comes, and listen closely to not miss hidden gems in the voices of the critics.  Some of the ignorance, such as comparing Duality ZF to a flash game, may be a fault of our presentation.  It may also be a fault of low frame rates and resolutions of online videos.  Our HD trailer received a much higher score than our SD trailer (8.9 vs. 6.7) and even the HD trailer fails to convey the smooth 60 frames per second action of our game.  2D games suffer more from low frame rates in trailers than 3D games.  I think the human mind is more capable of filling in the missing details in a 3D game because they closer match reality.

I challenge anyone to show me a flash game comparable to Duality ZF.  The most amazing flash shoot'em up game that comes to mind is Raiden X by Go0gley, a remake of Raiden II.  Is there one better than this?  If I receive enough submissions, I will post a list of the most comparable flash shoot'em up games to Duality ZF.

Also See:

• Duality ZF (official site)
• Duality ZF April 2009 Trailer (video)
• New Duality ZF Screenshots
• Duality ZF FAQ Answers

External Links:

• Duality ZF on Xbox Forums (xbox.com)
• Xona Games (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo)
• Xbox LIVE Community Games (xbox.com, Xbox Forums)
• Imphenzia Music (creator of the Duality ZF soundtrack)
• GameTrailers.com
• Raiden X (official site, game)
• Raiden II (Wikipedia)

About the Author:  I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning, team-of-two indie studio concentrating on "intense retro" games (Xbox LIVE, PSN, WiiWare, and Windows PC). We've released Decimation X (XBLIG), a 1-4 player shmup, #1 best selling and #1 top rated XBLIG in Japan. We're working on Duality ZF (XBLA), a groundbreaking 1-4 player shmup, which placed #1 in Canada and #5 in the world in Microsoft's Dream Build Play 2010 contest. It features dual play, the ability to control two fighters at once, and a massively upgradable 32-stage spread/laser weapon system. 4 player dual play allows up to eight fighters at once.  Many of these features are never before seen shoot'em up firsts. Both games feature beautiful electronic Imphenzia soundtracks.  Help spread the word with our official dualityzf.com and decimationx.com websites.

P.S. Watch out for Score Rush (official website scorerush.com), another 1-4 player shmup. Coming soon to XBLIG.

*Shmup also known as: shoot'em up, 2D shooter, scrolling shooter, space shooter, spaceship shooter, retro shooter, etc.