So at this point I am pretty sure that the people who are on the approval committee for Xbox Community Games are trolls. Last time I checked, I found a game that was basically a re-skinned XNA coding example. That means they took pre-existing code written by developers at Microsoft (designed to help fledgling coders understand how to do certain things), changed some textures, and tried to sell it.

I check now, and I find this thing called "Urban Art Gallery". It's... a scrolling list of twenty or so "urban art" images. Most of them being solid black silhouettes of women against bright color patterns. We're talking the sort of stuff that you can do in Photoshop in ten minutes. And, of course, they are trying to sell it.

I mean, wow. I get that there was a recent report that Community Games don't sell, and all, but this is actually a little bit sad. The entire reason there's supposed to be an approval committee at all is to make sure that things like this don't make it out for sale. Of course nobody's going to buy your silly Photoshop gallery or your awful driving game. Community Games need to move past WELCOME TO MEXICO and more towards Carneyvale Showtime.

Let's see some more quality! Do we really need five Community Games whose only purpose is to vibrate the controller?