A local video game company “1BlockEast” that came out of the University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering program has come out with a video game which is on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
“Curse of Shadows” is a side scroll platform game where you are a ninja trying to get past guards. To get past them you can sneak into the shadows by using the light around you. The game reminds me of NES games like Rygar or The Legend of Kage. It does have that old NES feel where sometimes the game just screws you, which is often the draw of some of those really hard older games.
The game is just 80 Microsoft points which equals one dollar in US currency. So it’s not very much and the first 20,000 buys of the game, all of the proceeds go directly to the group that made it. So if you’d like to support some local video gamers head over to the Xbox Live Marketplace and in the Indie section search for Curse of Shadows.