Duality ZF will compete in Dream Build Play 2009 Challenge

We are going to submit Duality ZF, our Xbox 360 arcade shoot'em up, to Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Contest, Dream Build Play 2009 Challenge.  Wish us luck.

Back to Dream Build Play 2008:

That's 2008, not 2009.  Many loyal fans from the start will remember that we entered a two month alpha demo of Duality ZF into Dream Build Play 2008.  We never placed, but it turned out the judges were looking for near-complete to completed games, not game prototypes as Duality ZF was back then.  Two shoot'em ups that placed in DBP 2008 were Weapon of Choice, a Contra-style shooter which placed third and is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and Zeit², a time-travel space shooter which placed in the top 20 and is yet unreleased.  It shows there is still hope for the arcade-style shoot'em up genre.

Preview Duality ZF / Interviews?

Preview Duality ZF with our promotional materials.  Contact us for pre-release interviews.

Also See:

• Duality ZF (official xona.com developer site)
• Duality ZF April 2009 Trailer (video)
• Interviews (Xona Games, Duality ZF)
• Duality ZF Promo Materials
• New Duality ZF Screenshots

External Links:

• Duality ZF (official dualityzf.com game site)
• Duality ZF Forums (hosted on xbox.com)
• Xona Games (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo)
• Xbox LIVE Community Games* (xbox.com, Xbox Forums)
• Imphenzia Music (creator of the Duality ZF soundtrack)
• Weapon of Choice
• Zeit²

*Xbox LIVE Community Games soon to be renamed to Xbox LIVE Indie Games.

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.