Nova Scotia Business Inc., a business development agency who assists local companies and attracts international companies to Nova Scotia, Canada, created a company profile of Xona Games.  We wanted to share pieces of it with you:

Xona Games:

Xona Games is an indie game studio in touch with true fans. The company focuses on video game development for Xbox 360, PC, and Zune. Xona Games is currently working on an Xbox 360 game, and have plans to port it to the PC and Zune.

Competitive advantage:

Xona Games is an indie game studio in touch with true fans of the game’s genre and actively engages in fan opinion during development which avoids common pitfalls. The company researches what works instead of implementing ideas in hopes they work.

Xona Games avoids commitments to final release dates and deadlines. The game’s quality is first priority and is never sacrificed via marketing pressures.

Xona Games philosophy is “power to the player”. Aspects of a game become the gamer’s tool, and the company designs the best tool possible, which maximizes gamer accomplishment. This allows quick and advanced skill development and maximizes gamer satisfaction.

Ultimately, Xona Games is trying to make the most fun game possible, in the given genre.

Let us know what you think (contact us).

Current Project:

Xona Games is currently working on Duality ZF, an Xbox 360 video game.  Fee free to preview Duality ZF with our promotional materials, or contact us for interviews. 

Also See:

• Duality ZF (official 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 game site)
• Duality ZF Forums (hosted on xbox.com)
• Xona Games (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo)
• Xbox LIVE Indie Games* (xbox.com, Xbox Forums)
• Imphenzia Music (creator of the Duality ZF soundtrack)
• NSBI (Nova Scotia Business Inc.)

*Xbox LIVE Indie Games formerly known as Xbox LIVE Community 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.