Ah, Xbox Live Indie Games. A home to cheap "massage" apps, Pong clones, Bejewelled wannabes and more zombies than you can shake a shotgun at.
Or is it?
There is a lot more to the service than these stereotypes: 2010 saw a total of 875 games released on the platform, spread across virtually every gaming genre and often offering a bizzare and/or wonderous take on established conventions.
How do I know this? Simple: I've played them all. And while I'm still questioning my sanity - and it may have taken me the best part of a month to clear the last of the 2010 backlog - I'm now able to look back at a full year of XBLIG games. And here's what I found...
(and if you want to see all of these and more, feel free to head over to http://www.xboxindiegames.co.uk/ - comments are welcomed!)
XBLIG 2010: the ten best games
(or: the games which I'd use to showcase the platform, in alphabetic order)
Apple Jack:
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