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Today I'm incredibly proud to announce that SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance, a side project I've been working on for the better part of the past year, is now available to download on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel.  The game is a four player local co-op twin stick shooter with plenty of other elements mixed in like an RPG class system and dozens of upgrades to tweak how your ship handles and performs.  With 36 missions, 9 survival missions, and a free play mode there's tons of gameplay to keep you coming back for more.  

Features:

  • Four unique ship types each with twelve upgradable items and six levels per upgrade
  • Story mode that arcs three planetary systems through 36 missions
  • Three modes of play including story, free play and survival
  • Original score composed by Sean Beeson (Assault Heroes, Magic the Gathering Promo Trailers)
  • The unique “Salvage System” governs scoring, upgrades, and special abilities for the players
  • Ship classes, weapons, and missions all promote cooperative play
  • Scaling difficulty based on the number of players
  • Gigantic space battles feature hundreds of on screen enemies
  • Quirky characters and dialog keep the game spirited and give purpose to the missions

To download to game all you need to do is fire up your Xbox, hit up the Marketplace and select the Indie channel.  You can also click this easy to use link and queue it up for download right now! 

SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance costs 240 

The PC version of SCHAR: BSA will be available in the coming weeks along with our first content update for the Xbox version.

Source: Marketplace.xbox.com

 
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Nick Puleo
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Cubninja
11:28 AM
7/10/2012

If you like twin stick shooters, you need to try this. If you don't like twin stick shooters, you better learn to like twin stick shooters. It's full of pew.


smurphster
12:51 PM
7/10/2012

Congrats Nick! I had fun with the beta builds, I'm looking forward to trying the finalized game.


txshurricane
1:17 PM
7/10/2012

Congratulations, guys.


Zonf86
5:00 AM
7/11/2012

Congrats!


Jhooud
2:22 PM
7/11/2012

Congrats! Added it to my queue, and I'll give it a go tonight.


R2JUGGERNATE
2:35 PM
7/11/2012

Cool.. looks fun.. will it be available on steam for PC? Or where would we need to go to find it?


bapenguin
9:26 PM
7/11/2012

It'll be available on PC. Right now Desura is the only store we have lined up for sure. Steam we'll be trying out their new Greenlight method to get on there.


Biohzrd451
1:33 PM
7/12/2012

I will check this out as my Net was just fixed today woot woot!


Shazoo
4:33 PM
7/12/2012

had some serious fun providing feedback and beta testing! Can't wait to download and recommend to all my friends!

Picked up my xbox copy just now, awesome to see my name in the credits by the way. Can't wait to coop with the wife later!


Macrocephalus
6:20 PM
7/12/2012

That's awesome, Nick! When I first saw the thread title I thought it sounded like an insurance plan. This is way better. Just queued it up, and if I finish up with work at a sane hour (unfortunately questionable) I'll definitely check it out tonight!


CoopBob
7:14 PM
7/12/2012

Tried it out. The music is AWESOME! Please pass that along to whoever did it

I enjoyed the rest of the game too. Nice, clean, crisp visuals, and I liked the ship variety and levelling, etc. Congrats guys!


bapenguin
10:09 PM
7/15/2012

Thanks Bob!

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Release Date: 08.28.2012
Genre: Twin Stick Shooter
ESRB: Teen

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