Microsoft has revealed Project Moorcroft, a new program that will bring demos of upcoming games to Xbox Game Pass.
Set to roll out within the next year, Project Moorcroft will see Microsoft pay developers to create demos of their upcoming games and bring them to the subscription service. Microsoft did not say whether there’s a mandated time-limit for these demos, or how long they will stick around the subscription service after launch.
The program kicks off with a focus on demos for indie games and helping their developers get data about and build excitement for their games.
Microsoft will let developers who make demos for Game Pass see how they perform, as well as pay them.
“We were sitting around as a team thinking, you remember it used to be you go to E3, you go to PAX, and you would go visit some of your favourite creators and they would have a piece or a level of a game that you could sit there and play, and there would be someone from the studio like right next to you in your ear being like: ‘press that button, go under there, do that stuff.’