Xona Games

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Xona Games
Company type Private
Industry Video games
Founded2008
Headquarters Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Key people
Jason Doucette, Matthew Doucette
Number of employees
2
Website xona.com

Xona Games is an independent Canadian video game developer founded in 2008 and headquartered in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] [2]

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Games

The company makes shoot 'em up games, targeting primarily Xbox LIVE Indie Games and Xbox LIVE Arcade which are especially popular in the Japanese market. [3] The company and many of their games have won awards, including the Rogers Small Business Big Idea Contest. [4]

Games released by Xona Games:

YearTitlePlatformPublisherNotes
2010Decimation X Xbox 360 Xona Games#1 in Japan [5] [6]
2010Decimation X2 Windows Phone 7 Xona GamesLaunch Title [7] [8]
2010Decimation X3 Xbox 360 Reverb Communications
2010Score Rush Xbox 360 Reverb Communications #1 in Japan; [12] [13]
2012Score Rush Turbulenz Turbulenz
2012Score Rush MP Turbulenz Turbulenz
2016Score Rush Extended 撃点 PlayStation 4 Reverb Communications
  • 80 Metacritic; [14]
  • #64 Best PS4 Game of 2016 [15]

Additional games in development by Xona Games include a new version of Score Rush, Decimation X4, and Duality ZF. [16] Xona Games was announced as an official ID@Xbox Xbox One Developer. [17]

Awards

Xona Games' games has won a total of $190,177.83 in contests, [18] [19] including the $100,000 Innovacorp I-3 competition [20] and the $50,000 Tizen App Challenge. [21] Decimation X3 was named one of the top Xbox Live Indie Games by Official Xbox Magazine. [22] Duality ZF was a finalist in the 2010 Dream.Build.Play contest, ranking #5 worldwide. [23] [24]

References

  1. ↑ Chisholm, Colin (12 January 2012). "Silicon Hali". The Coast . Halifax, NS. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "N.S. brothers produce Xbox game". CBC News . Nova Scotia: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Xona Games Interview Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine , indiegraph.net
  4. ↑ Moreira, Peter (3 February 2014). "ENTREVESTOR: Xona Games on winning streak". The Chronicle Herald . Halifax, NS. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  5. ↑ JAPAN'S #1 TOP RATED #1 BEST SELLING XBLIG: DECIMATION X, xona.com
  6. ↑ インディーズ ゲーム - Xbox.com, web.archive.org
  7. ↑ Andrew, Keith (3 January 2011). "Xona Games' Jason Doucette on what Microsoft needs to do to help indies on WP7's Marketplace". Pocket Gamer . Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  8. ↑ Why it is necessary to to test my iPhone app on actual iPhone device, stackexchange.com
  9. ↑ DECIMATION X3 #1 BEST SELLER IN 4 COUNTRIES, xona.com
  10. ↑ インディーズ ゲーム - Xbox.com, web.archive.org
  11. ↑ Indie Games Winter Uprise, web.archive.org
  12. ↑ SCORE RUSH #1 AND #2 BEST SELLER IN 3 COUNTRIES, xona.com
  13. ↑ インディーズ ゲーム - Xbox.com, web.archive.org
  14. ↑ Metacritic - Score Rush Extended - PS4, metacritic.com
  15. ↑ Metacritic - Game Releases By Score - PS4, metacritic.com
  16. ↑ Our Games, xona.com
  17. ↑ New Developers Sign On to ID@Xbox, xbox.com
  18. ↑ Awards, Honors, & Accomplishments, xona.com
  19. ↑ Prize Money & Funding, xona.com
  20. ↑ Innovacorp Announces I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition Winners Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine , progressmedia.ca
  21. ↑ Tizen App Challenge, developer.tizen.org
  22. ↑ The 16 best Xbox Live Indie Games, oxmonline.com
  23. ↑ "XNA Dream.Build.Play". Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 20 Jan 2010.
  24. ↑ Lumi wins Dream-Build-Play 2010 Challenge Archived June 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , armlessoctopus.com

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