Duality ZF April 2009 Trailer breaks 20,000 views
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Our Duality ZF trailer has broken 20,000 views on YouTube.  The recent surge of traffic from Dream Build Play searches (we placed 2nd in Canada and 7th overall) pushed us over the 20k barrier.

If you count our Vimeo views the trailer received over 22,000 views in total.  A tip for indie game developers is to always point everyone to the same trailer.  Don't point half of them to YouTube and half of them to Vimeo, and don't point anyone to both.  Pick the trailer that is most popular naturally, by anyone searching for your game, and spread that trailer around.  The view count is an indication of importance to newer viewers and you want to maximize it.

Duality ZF will be coming to Xbox LIVE Indie Games soon.

Also See:

• Duality ZF (official developer site)
• Dream Build Play 2009 Top 20 (Video Trailers)
• Interviews (Xona Games, Duality ZF)
• Duality ZF Promo Materials

External Links:

• Duality ZF (official game site)
• Duality ZF Forums (hosted on xbox.com)
• Xona Games (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo)
• Dream Build Play (Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Contest)
• Xbox LIVE Indie Games* (xbox.com, Xbox Forums)
• Imphenzia Music (creator of the Duality ZF soundtrack)

*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.