I'll admit, after watching the trailer for Phono Alliance from independant developer Soft Hope, I wasn't quite sure what I watched.  The game is described as a Patapon meets Super Mario Bros. style game.  That is, an action platformer with music and rhythym based elements.

Brett Hall, the creator of Xbox Live Community Game Joint Strike Force sat down with Examiner LA's Erik Johnson in a recent interview about the game, its development, and certification and publishing via the XNA creation system.

Microsoft launched the Community Games channel for the Xbox 360 in November. In three months, developers have released more than 180 games for the service, with over 30 featuring co-op play. It’s been hard to keep track of all the releases even for those of us highly interested in them. But in the last couple of weeks we played through all of the demos available and picked five to spend some quality time with.

I think it's human nature to want to try to create.  Whether you are creating your own art, literature, movies or games; humans have a switch somewhere in that brain of theirs that makes them creative.  Every gamer at some point as said - "I want to make a game."