Nintendo of America has launched a special page on the publisher’s online Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS eShop highlighting independently developed games available for download on the platforms.
According to NOA Business Development Manager Dan Adelman, the publisher has lowered barriers for independent studios to distribute their titles via the Nintendo eShop, working to “make it as close to frictionless as possible” with “really low cost of entry and a really smooth process.”
“The Nintendo eShop is always a work in progress,” added NOA Licensing Marketing Manager Damon Baker. “We’re (also) going to have off-device availability for eShop sales at some point. All of us feel that discoverability is going to be increasingly more important.”
The site features over 1,000 “new, classic and indie” titles including such as SteamWorld Dig, GunMan Clive, Moon Chronicles, Cave Story and Attack of the Friday Monster.
NOA also announced last October that the publisher plans to include MonoGame Framework in the Nintendo Wii U development platform. MonoGame Framework, an open source version of Microsoft’s XNA 4 Framework, streamlines the creation of cross-platform titles.
