February 09, 2010

Romance Maker

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 09, 2010 09:21 AM

If you are a fan of Grow-like games, you may want to give a try to Romance Maker where you have all the magic ingredients for a storybook romance.  Mix them together and see what happens. Another family-frendly game, perfect for a short coffee break! Have fun!

Push!

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 09, 2010 08:45 AM

Push! is a little puzzler from Willimas Thomas where you have to push blocks and make them all disappear. Use WASD or the arrow keys to move, press space bar to restart and enter to select shapes (when required). The game features 25 levels and includes a level editor. Have fun!

Office Escape Stage 3 – Winter Edition

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 09, 2010 08:25 AM

Office Escape Stage 3 – Winter Edition is the third and last episode of a new Room Escape trilogy sponsored by Calpis, a Japanese ready-to drink beverages company. This one takes place outside: it’s freezing,  you find yourself lost in a cave, and you’re not alone! Have fun!

Note: please be patient while the game is loading…

2/9/2010 AS3 Tutorial: Controlling the Main Timeline of a SWF Embedded at Compile-Time

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 09, 2010 07:00 AM

New Tutorials Blog Entry :

AS3 Tutorial: Controlling the Main Timeline of a SWF Embedded at Compile-Time

Today I was working a a new piece of the Essential Flash Games framework that allows sponsor swf files to be embedded at compile time and displayed before a game reaches the title screen. I am using Flash Develop and the Flex SDK, but the embed compiler directive is also available in the latest versions of the Flash IDE. I wanted to embed rather than load to ensure that the final swf file is a single self-contained unit that can be easily spread to game portals. I tried this a number of different ways to no avail. Most of the standard swf embed code works fine with assets inside the library of embedded swf, but not when trying to control the main time line of the swf itself. So, this is what we are going to cover: If you have been trying to embed swf files at compile time but cannot get your code to recognize the embedded swf, or the totalFrames attribute of the embedded swf returns 0, or if the swf only shows the final frame of your animation then read on. I had all of those problems today and more, but finally figured out a method to make this work properly.

Controlling the Main Time Line of a swf file embedded at run time.

1. Here is the asset that we are going to embed. I Embed all of my assets in a separate Library class as Static Const variables. This could just as easily be in the main document class for your game or application. I will do it the later way here to keep it uncomplicated. This assumes that the 8bitrocketlogo2.swf is in the same folder as the document class. This logo swf is a multi frame animation with 85 frames on the main time line(its just important that there is more than a single frame because you will want to see if you can play and jump to frames to ensure you have control over the time line)... [more]

2/8/2010 GamesChart's Barry White Responds (redux)

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 09, 2010 04:44 AM

New Flash Game Development Blog Entry :

GamesChart's Barry White Responds (redux)

Last week I did a some coverage ofGamesChart and it sparked a little controversy. It seems that one of the principals behind the new venture is none other than Barry White from the now defunct GameJacket. You can't forget Barry as he has the single best name in the games business. Anyway, while Steve and I had nothing but good fortune working with Game Jacket, there are quite a few who were owed money when the company finally went south. It seems that some people have also been receiving emails directly from Barry about GamesChart and he was being accused of 'spamming' people who do not want to receive this email. It is fair for people to be upset about supposed spam, especially when the terms of the Game Jacket user agreement stated that they would not sell or use the email list for anything other than GameJacket related correspondence.

So, my first question for Barry was where he was getting the email addresses he was sending to because 8bitrocket had been a long time member of GameJacket and we did not receive any spam email from him. Here is his response:

8bitrocket: Barry, we did not receive any email(s) from you about GamesChart. Where did the list come from that you are sending to?...[more]

Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!!

From Hero Interactive

by Steph on February 09, 2010 03:20 AM

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We just found out that we’ve been voted into a finalist position for the 2009 Mochi Awards!

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that you could nominate your favorite games for a Mochi Award and that Bubble Tanks Tower Defense was a contender for the best Strategy game of 2009.  We must have gotten lots of nominations!  Here’s yet another huge thanks to each and every one of you who played the game, commented on the game, nominated the game, and voted for the game.  We are truly fortunate to have such awesome fans.

The winners of the Mochi Awards will be announced at the Flash Gaming Summit next month!  We’ll keep you updated on the results.

Droplet Game Updated

From Photon Storm Blog

by rich on February 09, 2010 01:05 AM

After the blissful chaos of preparing for the Droplet 2 launch party, I finally had time to take stock and catch-up. The party was an absolute success. Both the game iLKe and I made, and the Twitter wall I coded for Gav went down a treat. The Twitter wall featured this awesome video that was projected, Bat symbol like, across Bristol’s Park Street onto an adjacent building. People in the queue (and there were a lot of them!) could send their tweets to the wall and see them displayed in near real-time. Here’s a video taken from someone there. And here’s the actual SWF that was projected (give it time to download, there’s a 3MB FLV streaming in)

Before I discuss the game – can I just say you MUST check out this montage picture of the incredible custom Droplets. They were all featured in the gallery, and the level of talent displayed in some of them is nothing short of breath-taking. There’s a whole Flickr group dedicated to the Droplets.

The game was released onto the Droplet web site the day before the party. It was also mentioned on Twitter (lots!), Facebook (lots!) and best of all could be seen running on TVs in both the store and the gallery. The footage was from an earlier build, but it still looked great, and I got plenty of compliments :)

So what’s happened since then? Well there were a couple of bugs in the game, as is to be expected with the last-minute rush we endured. Most notable of which was that the scores didn’t reset when the game was completed! So people could work their way up the highscore board a little too easily ;) Thankfully Katie spotted this one and I promptly zapped it.

There was also a display issue with the background sky scroller, that absolutely no-one noticed except me – but it bugged me every time I played it. iLKe also tweaked the level layout quite a lot, refining a few areas and making others cleaner. He also saw fit to redraw my Pause screen a little. Damn pixel gurus :) I also updated the Droplet page here on my web site, to include the missing Development details.

Anyway the new build is up on the Droplet micro site. And yes I wiped all the highscores to keep things “fair”. Enjoy!

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February 08, 2010

Record Tripping

From Jay is Games

by Blar on February 08, 2010 11:00 PM

[Platform: Flash] An experiment in concept, Record Tripping is a short game that you control using your mouse scroll wheel. Play a series of mini-games that take you through Alice in Wonderland with one very pretty presentation. The whole package is a cool little showcase of a neat idea with lovely trappings, well worth the short time it takes to complete.

Zap preview

From Gaming Your Way

by Squize on February 08, 2010 06:07 PM

Well the game is done now, so now it's time to start the submission process and obviously the pimping process.

I've knocked up a cheeky preview video clip of it in action, and it's right here.

Now I've got to do some icons, write some copy that will wow the money out of peoples pockets and take some screenies. Nearly there.

Squize.

Bold Pixel Engine: an AS3 Framework for Games

From Freelance Flash Games News

by Director on February 08, 2010 05:37 PM

Vortix Games Studios has recently announced the release of their new Actionscript 3 framework called Bold Pixel Engine. The engine compiles a number of useful classes and coding tasks commonly used in game development to give developers a streamlined engine capable of efficient and effective game creation. Already in use in two soon to be released [...]

5 Similarities

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 08, 2010 05:32 PM

5 Similarities is a challenging Spot the difference game with a twist: your goal here is to identify the 5 matches between two completely different pictures. To spice things up, you have a limited time to spot the similarities. Not as easy as it sounds! Have fun!

Robot Unicorn Attack

From Jay is Games

by LDora on February 08, 2010 05:00 PM

[Platform: Flash] Have you ever wondered what ponies dream about? It's not hay or salt licks. They dream of racing with shiny dolphins across a purple landscape, leaping to avoid smashing into stars and racking up a high score. That's right, they dream of being a magical robot unicorn! And now, thanks to this weird yet addictive two-button game from Adult Swim, so will you. Neigh, my friend. Neigh like you've never neighed before!

2/8/2010 I Just Want To Say This: I Love Flash!

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 08, 2010 03:44 PM

New Flash Game Development Blog Entry : I've been spending the last year or so looking and/or forced to develop in other technologies thatare not Flash. I've seen Python, Google App Engine, Silverlight, HTML 5, PHP, Drupal, Joomla, C Num. , Coco, Android Java, and even Unity. While all of these technologies have their, there is one thing they are not:

Flash.

There is a reason why Flash saved the internet in 2001. It's ubiquitous, cross-browser compatible, and 99% of the time, just works. It allows designers to be designers, and with AS3/Flex, allows programmers to be programmers.

I played with HTML for many years before I discovered Flash. Programmed in C/C++ for many years before I found Flash. Flash is the best of those worlds and more. I read a lot of technosnobs who do not like Flash. To bad. Flash saved the web by making it accessible to marketing (where the money is), designers, and by making it interactive and enjoyable to everyone who uses it.

Anyway, I love Flash. That's all I have to say.

123Bee – Deep Sea Cage Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 08, 2010 03:16 PM

Gun Game 2 Dev Vid #2: Object Sprites

From FlashChaz.com

at February 08, 2010 12:00 PM

Just a short one here, but a development video nonetheless! Please make sure to subscribe to both my Twitter and YouTube channel for INSTANT updates! Just a short video here showing you a couple of the destructible items that will be in the game. As we're currently in development, expect alot ...

Shrink 2

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 08, 2010 09:04 AM

In Shrink 2, you shrink the walls as the shapes move, but don’t let any shape touch an orange side or you will have to restart the level. This second version is more challenging than the original, and features 25 levels in total. Level 24 is a tough one! Have fun!

Granny’s House

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 08, 2010 09:03 AM

Granny’s House is another Room Escape game from RogueJoker. “It’s your weekly visit to Granny’s house, and as usual Granny is driving you nuts with all her demands. It just goes on and on. You need to get out before you go mad or die from exhaustion.” Have fun!

Call Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 08, 2010 08:55 AM

Call Escape is a nice looking Japanese Room Escape game from Factory 112. For an unknown reason unless you read Japanese, you find yourself locked in a room where you  notice an hibernation capsule. What happened here and how to escape? Good Luck!

Mobile Monday

From Jay is Games

by JohnB on February 08, 2010 05:00 AM

[Platform: Mobile (iPhone, iPod Touch)] One secret fact about iPhone games is that they can make you do weird things. Tilting the device to steer a car, for example, seems innocent enough, but when you're operating a flying taxi cab or flinging enemies up into the virtual sky, it's easy to get carried away. But you know what? Who cares if you look like a weirdo. You're having fun, and that guy making fun of you is not.

February 07, 2010

Bold Pixel Engine Released

From Vortix Games Blog

by Vlad on February 07, 2010 07:23 PM

Hi all! Great day today! We are releasing Bold Pixel Engine today. Along with this release we are also opening our YouTube channel. Is that nice or what? Visit our Bold Pixel Engine Page for information and download and our YouTube channel for the first glimpse of it. See you later…

Sarah Maribu and the Lost World

From Jay is Games

by grinnyp on February 07, 2010 06:15 PM

[Platform: Download (Windows)] Embark on a hidden object adventure to a lush, mysterious, and strange uncharted jungle island. Despite the flaws there's a lot of hidden object fun to be had with Sarah Maribu and the Lost World. Just sit back and enjoy the wild, illogical, yet dazzling adventure through the island of misfit dinosaurs. Just tell them Grandpa sent you.

Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 07, 2010 05:50 PM

Take on the role of a lowly stagehand in an opera company tasked with solving a deadly mystery!

The Opera troupe is invited by the reclusive Count Vladd Vansig III to his small hamlet to perform a special Opera for him.

Strangely, there are no villagers to speak of except for the Count and his caretaker.

Over the course of the night, people go missing and are killed!

Use your Hidden Object skills to find out the identity of the killer and escape the village alive in Nightfall Mysteries – Curse of the Opera!

  • Spooky atmosphere.
  • Dangerous mystery.
  • Solve the case!
  • Get the Strategy Guide!

Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera walkthrough!

WindowsPlay FREE for one hour or Order the FULL version
Mac OsNot available

The Impossible Quiz Book 1

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 07, 2010 04:24 PM

The Impossible Quiz Book is the next installment in the Impossible Quiz series created by Splapp-me-do.

The new Quiz Book is expected to come in three “huge and frustrating” parts, each one featuring 50 questions to answer.

Part 1, Close Encounters of the Furred Kind was released last Summer.

Part 2 is expected to be released later this year.

Have fun!

Play The Impossible Quiz

Play The Impossible Quiz 2

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

From Photon Storm Blog

by rich on February 07, 2010 10:00 AM

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Escape from Entrance

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 07, 2010 09:41 AM

After Escape from the Daily Room 3D, Lunar Rainbow, Marron + (plus), Strawberry Cafe Escape, Pineapple Escape Plus, Flower Escape, Heart Escape 3, Sora Room Escape and many more, here is Escape from Entrance, the latest Room Escape game from StrawberryCafe.

You find yourself trapped in a residence hall entrance: you can’t get in, and you can’t get out!

Have fun!

Escape from Entrance walkthrough (thanks Sol!)

Escape from Entrance video walkthrough!

Paradise Quest

From Jay is Games

by grinnyp on February 07, 2010 12:00 AM

[Platform: Download (Windows)] Gorgeous to look at, easy on the ears and with a fun new twist to the old match 3 dynamic, Paradise Quest is tons and tons of match 3 fun, with enough side tasks to break up the gameplay and keep it feeling fresh. Entertaining, educational, and fun for the entire family.

February 06, 2010

Weekend Download

From Jay is Games

by JohnB on February 06, 2010 06:20 PM

[Platform: Download (Windows)] Sometimes you don't want an epic story or 80 hours of gameplay out of your game. Sometimes you just want to mess around, experience something quirky, and call it a day. All of the games below are extremely short. They're "just 'cause" games, because the only reason you play them is just because you can!

Cover Orange 2

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 04:56 PM

By Johnny K, the author of Ragdoll Cannon and Roly-Poly Cannon, and Anton Koshechkin, here is Cover Orange 2, the sequel to the physics-based puzzle game Cover Orange.

The goal remains similar in the sequel: you will have to protect, not one but two smileys from the deadly rain in 25 brand new levels.

Just use your mouse to place all objects and wait for the cloud to pass by.

The biggest change with Cover Orange 2 is that it comes with an external level editor with which you can create your own levels and share them with others.

You can also send in your creation to the contest jury to have a chance to be featured in the next release. And the best part is that there’s $4000 total prize money awarded to the winning levels!

Have fun!

Cover Orange 2 video walkthrough!

Epic Adventures: La Jangada

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 03:04 PM

Help Minha save her father from the gallows in this 19th century epic Adventure Hidden Object game based on Jules Verne’s novel La Jangada.

Find evidence spread around the Jangada.

Search for clues to unravel the mystery of Joam Dacosta’s past and solve intriguing puzzles as you travel through the great Amazon.

  • Immersive atmosphere.
  • Uncover the truth.
  • Help Minha save her father!

Epic Adventures: La Jangada Walkthrough!

WindowsPlay FREE for one hour or Order the FULL version
Mac OsNot available

1 Penguin 100 Cases

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 02:53 PM

Oh no! Pengoo’s alarm clock didn’t go off and he didn’t hatch in time!

Journey with Pengoo the penguin inside a fishing net to New Zealand, and stick with him as he struggles to find his way back home.

Surprises are in store as Pengoo meets up with colorful characters and mystical creatures, each with their own problems.

Solve mind-bending puzzles and kooky conundrums in this charming Hidden Object game!

  • Over 90 levels.
  • Funny storyline.
  • Guide Pengoo home!
WindowsPlay FREE for one hour or Order the FULL version
Mac OsNot available

Gazzyboy – Killer Room Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 01:45 PM

Dragonfly Island Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 11:31 AM

Dragonfly Island Escape is a nice looking (and quite easy) Japanese Room Escape game from Karabina-7. You end up on a friendly desert Island (the welcome sign is a nice touch), with no idea how to get out of here. Luckily for you, your golf swing is awful… Have fun!

Dragonfly Island Escape video walkthrough!

Valentine and Cupid

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 06, 2010 10:28 AM

New Game Droplet Released

From Photon Storm Blog

by rich on February 06, 2010 10:20 AM

This game was created to celebrate the launch of Series 2 of the awesome little Droplet vinyl toys. iLKke and I took the Droplet characters back into an 8-bit NES style era, complete with platforming action, colourful scenery and a truly micro bipbop vibe.

Read more about the game, and of course play it on the Droplet page :)

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February 05, 2010

The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect

From Jay is Games

by LDora on February 05, 2010 11:30 PM

[Platform: Download (Mac, Windows)] What if history's greatest discoveries never happened? What if it was all because of a butterfly and one very sloppy time traveler? When Helen's grandfather manages to set the modern age back into the stone age after one careless time jaunt, Helen takes it upon herself to set things right. Travel throughout history in this colourful hidden object game and make sure things happen the way they should, unless you like the idea of living in a mud hut. And we're pretty sure those don't get cable.

Zoo Transport

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 09:44 PM

Zoo Transport is a physics-based game created by Israel Alvarez Carrion and Xavier Heras Divison where your goal is to help the penguin transport Company “to carry all animals to the next zoo.” The game features 40 levels of various difficulty to test your skills and your nerves! Have fun!

Zoo Transport

From Jay is Games

by LDora on February 05, 2010 09:35 PM

[Platform: Flash] How many crates could a penguin stack if a penguin could stack crates? You're about to find out. There isn't a human in sight, so it's up to you and our fine flippered friend to transport crates of live, bouncy, feisty animals to the nearest zoo with only your stacking skills, a battered red pickup, and a physics engine on your side.

Mochi Haiti Relief Fund donates $5,000 to Red Cross!

From MochiLand

by Alexander Shen on February 05, 2010 06:17 PM

Hello all!

Recently, Mochi Media has started a Haiti relief fund to provide donations to the American Red Cross. Developers were given the option to share earnings from their games with the relief fund with Mochi Media matching that amount. All I can say is that the generosity of the developers in the network is truly astounding!

From donations across over 50 developers, we will be donating a total of $5,000 to the American Red Cross to help aid the efforts in Haiti. We couldn’t have done this without you or your support. We’d like to extend our appreciation to everyone and all the help you’ve provided!


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2/5/2010 Matt Barton Interviews The Creator Of the Choose Your Own Adventure Series

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 05, 2010 05:44 PM

New Required Reading Blog Entry :
Matt Barton, author of Dungeons And Desktops and co-author of Vintage Games has posted a very cool interview with one of my heroes, R.A. Montgomery, the creator of the classic 80's 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book series.

M-Bot: The Game

From Jay is Games

by Blar on February 05, 2010 04:00 PM

[Platform: Flash] M-Bot: The Game is a gorgeous, shiny, frenetic gem of a 2.5D shooter with style to spare, where you pilot M-Bot through the urban ruins of the Newgrounds community to disable spambots and make the world safe for friendly posters everywhere.

First Poll of 2010!

From Hero Interactive

by Steph on February 05, 2010 03:50 PM

I just realized the other day that we haven’t had a poll since the end of 2009!  I guess my brain fell out or something.  Sorry!

Note: There is a poll within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

Pinda Paddo Goes Green

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 02:11 PM

Pinda Paddo Goes Green is the latest installment in the Pinda Paddo Adventure series created by Anneke Heerma. “When Paddo and Patty saw the documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore, they realized that they has to do something to save the Planet!” Have fun!

Gazzyboy – Drainage Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 01:35 PM

Mishap: An Accidental Haunting

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 12:40 PM

The Burtons have just moved into a beautiful new home, which just happens to be haunted.

Now it’s up to you to help them deal with some particularly unfortunate ghosts as you search for Hidden Object through beautifully illustrated rooms.

Help the Burtons survive the paranormal and take back their home in Mishap: An Accidental Haunting.

  • Unique minigame showdowns.
  • Relive tragic tales.
  • Take back the Burtons’ home!

Mishap: An Accidental Haunting Walkthrough!

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Cocoa Room Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 12:17 PM

Sarah Maribu and the Lost World

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 09:05 AM

Sarah Maribu is off to explore an island full of Dinosaurs!

After her grandfather tips her off to this ancient land, Sarah is off on a wild adventure!

Upon arrival, her husband Michael goes missing and must be saved! Track down the dinosaur-worshipping natives and get Michael back!

Collect incredible treasures and explore a mysterious island full of puzzles and Hidden Objects, in Sarah Maribu and the Lost World.

  • Incredible Treasures.
  • Tricky puzzles.
  • Save Michael!
  • Get the Strategy Guide!

Sarah Maribu and the Lost World Walkthrough!

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Mac OsNot available

One Button Bob

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 08:51 AM

One Button Bob is a single button action game developed by Tom Vencel where your goal is to help Bob avoid “a bunch of nasty traps and baddies to find a treasure.”

According to the author, One Button Bob was inspired by c64 classics like Hunchback and Pitfall.

How many clicks will it take you to take out the final boss and get to the treasure?

Enjoy this one while it lasts!

Have fun!

Flash512 – Dream House Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 08:15 AM

Dream House Escape is another Room Escape game from Chinese site Flash512 (Toys Room Escape, Escape Ancient China Room, Sing Escape Hotel and more). You find yourself trapped in a big house with with a lot of rooms to explore and a unique goal: escape! Have fun!

Note: Click the left hand button to start the game…

Escape Game Sasaesan (Nursery)

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 08:03 AM

Escape Game Sasaesan (Nursery) is a Room Escape game from Kagiana, the author of Captain Duck, Old Hotel, Escape the Nursery and Monster 2. In this one, you find yourself locked in a room with no idea what you are doing here Try to find some useful items and escape! Have fun!

Escape the Bookstore 2 – Bookstore Dystopia

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 05, 2010 07:22 AM

Escape the Bookstore 2 – Bookstore Dystopia is the second installment in the Escape the BookStore Room Escape series created by Dina Gjertsen, also author of Halloween Escape, Convenience Room Escape, Escape from the Laundromat, Seven Rooms, Six Rooms and more.

“Back in the bookstore. But someone is trying to burn it down! Escape before you are overcome by the fumes, yo.”

Have fun!

Escape the Bookstore 2 video walkthrough!

Link Dump Friday

From Jay is Games

by LDora on February 05, 2010 05:00 AM

Need some sunshine in your day? How about bright colours, bizarre imagery, and a monkey in an iron barrel? That's right, this week's Link Dump Friday celebrates the weirdly wonderful games of the World Wide Web. Point-and-clicks, defense, physics, puzzles, all for you, dear reader. So hold tight to your no-nonsense socks if you value them, because this one is going to knock them right off with cuteness.

February 04, 2010

Babylon Sticks: Unbearable

From Jay is Games

by blahsum on February 04, 2010 09:00 PM

Have you ever appreciated how important Flash games are for distracting us from every day's hellish existence?

2/4/2010 New 8 Bit Weapon Sony Loop Library

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 04, 2010 08:44 PM

New Flash Game Development Blog Entry : New 8 Bit Weapon Sony Loop Library

8bitweapon.jpg

We make a lot of loop-based music here at 8bitrocket. One of our favorite tools is Acid by Sonic Foundry (and now Sony). Sony always has new sets of loop libraries to fill the need for unique and new game music construction. For the first time ever they have a library by the great 8 Bit Weapon. This library can be used with any loop-based music software and all full studios suites that import and use wav formatted files.

The cost is $39.99, but is you are into making music (especially retro music) or games, it is a invaluable library to build with.

Escape Fever – Boom Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 04, 2010 07:52 PM

Boom Escape is a Room Escape game by EscapeFever the author of Dark Room Escape, Smallest Room Escape, Mystery Island Escape, Nut hunter and many more. “There are no doors in this room and the room contains explosives. Escape the room with a boom – no boring keys!” Good Luck!

Boom Escape walkthrough (thanks monte!)

2/4/2010 Ill Advised CIO Magazine Article Asks: 'Is it Time for the Web to Abandon Flash?'

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 04, 2010 06:44 PM

New Flash Game Development Blog Entry :

Bad information can be annoying, but bad information in the hands of decision makers can be downright dangerous. An article that was posted today by CIO magazine is just such a thing. The article is entitled 'Is it Time for the Web to Abandon Flash?', and it gives current I.T. decision makers some very very bad advice about Flash and HTML 5. (much more after the jump, including vitrol, graphs and funny stories involving coyotes: read on!)

123Bee – School Bus Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 04, 2010 05:37 PM

School Bus Escape is a Room Escape games from 123Bee. “Imagine yourself a School boy forgetting to get down from the school bus, as you doze off sitting in the last seat. Even the driver didn’t noticed you were still in the bus. He left the bus and closed the doors!” Good Luck!

School Bus Escape video walkthrough!

2/4/2010 Updated! GamesChart (Game Jacket Guys Get Back Into The System?) - Barry White Responds

From 8 Bit Rocket

at February 04, 2010 05:14 PM

New Flash Game Development Blog Entry :

Updated! - Barry White Responds.

GamesChart (Game Jacket Guys Get Back Into The System?)

Barry White left a message below with some very detailed information on GamesChart.

'I do just want to point out that we are in veryearly Developer Beta, so there''s lots of things that haven''t beenadded yet and we''ve still got to include more category charts on theAPI and also launch the Publisher Beta. That''s the main reason why allthe games are being directed back to GamesChart.com ..not because it''sa pyramid scheme. In fact, if all goes to plan - I would be over themoon if none of the games ever linked back to the main site :P'

  • Every game that has the GamesChart API embedded in it is tracked by GamesChart
  • The API also loads in a series of dynamic charts that actually display within the Flash game itself
  • The most popular games each week make their way to the top of the charts
  • Any gamers who click on a game listed in these charts is taken to play that game on another portal
  • Publishersuse an advanced pay per click bidding system to purchase this trafficand drive users back to their own sites to play the games they have bidon
  • Games need to be uploaded to the Publishers portal before they can receive traffic (big upside)
  • Developersreceive up to a 50% revenue share of any outbound clicks generated fromwithin their game should they choose to display it (also fullblacklisting available)
  • Publishers also receive 10% of total revenues generated from any GamesChart enabled games featured on their site

  • ...[more]

Gazzyboy – Biology Lab Escape

From Free Game News

by Eric on February 04, 2010 02:57 PM

Biology Lab Escape is another Room Escape game from Gazzyboy. In this one, you play a student who find himself locked in a biology lab. First mission: turn on the light! Once it’s done, look around closely, search for useful items and eventually escape from the lab! Good Luck!

Cageroom Escape

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by Eric on February 04, 2010 02:41 PM

Cageroom Escape is another Room Escape game from Gamershood. For an unknown reason, you find yourself locked in a weird room, full of weird stuff. Look around closely, search for some useful items, free the animal in the cage and eventually escape from the Cageroom! Good Luck!

Cageroom Escape video walkthrough!

Mechanical Commando 2

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by LDora on February 04, 2010 02:00 PM

[Platform: Flash] Got mech? Time to suit up in Mechanical Commando 2, a fast and frantic top-down shooter from Berzerk Studio featuring lots of enemies, lots of bosses, lots of missions, and lots and lots of bullets. With achievements and upgrades galore, it's enough to satisfy the trigger happy space marine inside all of us.