Nathan Fouts' one man studio Mommy's Best Games made quite a name for itself a few years back by bringing uncharacteristically high quality games to XBLIG. Such titles included: Weapon of Choice, Explosionade, Shoot 1UP and Game Type.
Pilot an experimental mech and shoot giant grenades to blow up sneaky aliens. Stomp their guts, destroy their base, and save the day! All your friends are storming the Horronym Fortress but Colonel Bouche left you to guard the supply depot. Disregarding orders you open the depot to find a gigantic, prototype mech!
FEATURES:
INFILTRATE subterranean strongholds manned by cunning bipedal aliens and their mind-blasting hellions!
Recharging MegaNades, and an earth-shaking machine gun rip DESTRUCTIBLE environments to hand-drawn bits!
Dozens of CHALLENGE-ROOM style gameplay with a zoom function that let's in you close or zooms out to see all the action!
Battle tricky aliens that can run, dodge, take pot-shots and throw grenades to blow you to bits!
2-PLAYER COOP so you can share the alien-stomping, grenade tossing joy!
Blast screen-filling bosses deep, deep down in the unexplored depths!
Multiple difficulty modes, and gameplay speed control to find just the right challenge!
New for Steam version - Steam Leaderboards, Achievements, and Trading Cards!
Hand-drawn, SILKY-SMOOTH effect animations just like Mom used to make! (If your mom was SNK)
Help Hoodie Girl fight the evil MediaBall's inane advertisements and get a new high score!
A game in two parts: First, brave your way through a confusing maze of menus, then take to the air as the indefatigable "Hoodie Girl" and blast sentient advertisements into cold, hard cash!
FEATURES:
Loop-tastic speed insanity! Every time you beat a level, the game speed increases!
Time Pulse gameplay -- Slow down time and turn enemy bullets into score drops!
2-Player co-op
Weekly Leaderboard! Show up often + Show Off your play skills!
Brand new Steam Achievements!
PARKOUR!!!
Based on a true story*!
´The world is being taken over by gene-combining beings from beyond the stars!
Hideous new creatures are popping up everywhere, and it's up to the Solus Operatives to grab their unique weapons and split some disgusting alien skulls!
High-resolution and carefully hand-drawn art style breathes life and originality into this bizarre game world.
Dynamically branching levels are tied together by an intriguing story with multiple endings, giving the player tons of replay-ability and chances to master each operative’s Weapon of Choice.
Features:
CHOICE is your Weapon! Play through non-linear levels and make dynamic in-level branch decisions!
Each playable character has their own special weapon of choice with primary and alternative fire modes! Jet-engine guns, plasma-saws, limpet grenades and more!
Rescue unique playable characters and add to total number of playable lives!
Experience Death Brushing! Unlike traditional one-hit kill games, Weapon of Choice gives you the opportunity to get out of a tight spot. Death Brushing automatically kicks in when danger is near.
Reap revenge for your downed Operatives with the Vengeance Missile!
Scale walls and attack from anywhere with the automated Spiderpack!
Replay to experience different storylines with completely distinct endings!
Rock out to original music with a heavy metal guitar soundtrack!
New for the Steam version, widescreen 16:9 format!
All new Steam Achievements--try finding the MBG pies in each level for a new adventure!
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time?
Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
Instead of stowing each 1UP you collect, each new ship becomes playable immediately, resulting in an ever-growing armada of destruction!
With your home world ruined, lead your detached battalion's charge by destroying the mechanical-tentacle hybrid attack forces responsible for your pain.
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1UPs INSTANTLY ENTER THE ACTION!
Command up to 30 ships at the SAME TIME!
2 PLAYER CO-OP play for 60 SIMULTANEOUS player ship INSANITY!
Contract your phalanx to dodge enemy fire, expand your ships to fire the PLASMA AUGER!
WEAPONS UPGRADE as you collect more ships (And they downgrade when you lose them so stay sharp!)
Sacrifice ships for a BULLET-VAPORIZING BOMB which increases in power the more ships you've collected!
Manic Shooting without all the wailing and gnashing of teeth--NORMAL GAMERS can actually enjoy this!
Hardcore? Crank up the difficulty and gameplay speed for THUMB-TWISTING manuevers!
Classic shmup design - six levels of alien lands ready for you to get your revenge!
New for Steam version - Steam Leaderboards, Steam Achievements, Trading Cards, remappable keyboard controls, and more
I guess it depends on whether you liked Double D and its style of gameplay and like the genres
tl;dr
Weapon of Choice is a side-scrolling platformer/shooter very much in the vein of Contra;
Shoot 1UP is a Treasure-like shmup where you control multiple ships simultaneously;
Explosionade is more along the lines of Super Crate Box meets Serious Sam;
Game Type is a satirical title mocking the Xbox 360's ridiculous dashboard redesign making it bewilderingly difficult to find self-published XBLIG games.
and from what I remember they were all pretty positively rated when they was xbox-only
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