8bitrocket.com Launches Retro Flash Game Hall Of Fame
8bitrocket.com Launches Retro Flash Game Hall Of Fame
Today we launch our newest feature: The 8bitrocket.com The Retro Flash Game Hall Of Fame. We here at 8bitrocket.com love to find and play great retro-inspired Flash games. As we build-out our "Next Generation Retro Game Portal" we wanted to make sure that we did not leave any great games under the pile as we add new games to the site. Because of this, we decided to create a "Hall Of Fame" to highlight the best games in this genre. We start today by
inducting 5 games into the Hall Of Fame. These are 5 Games that we feel are the best examples of
retro
inspired games made in Flash.
Of course, there are many others games that are good enough for this list, and many of them will make it into the hall of fame in due time. However we cannot induct every game. That is why we have created the "Retro Stars" award. Any game that makes it onto our site is instantly a "Retro Star". The designation means that we have chosen the game out of piles and piles of games that come across our desks, as one of the best retro inspired games that currently exists in the realm of viral Flash games.
So without further ado, and in no certain order, here are five inaugural inductees into the 8bitrocket.com Retro Flash Game Hall Of Fame:
Magma : Magma is an exceptional Bomberman inspired game from Red Rooster Games. While this is a very nicely made game with crisp visual and solid game-play, we have inducted it into out Hall Of Fame for this reason: It gets more plays than any other game on our portal! For this reason alone it deserves it's place in our pantheon of greats.
Sky Patrol is an amazingly fun action shooter by the Edis Brothers who run ezone.com . These guys make tons of great games, but in our opinion, this is one of the best. The game is a 16-bit graphical era take on Konami's Time Pilot. The controls are smooth, the explosions are satisfying, and the game play is awesomely addictive. Plus, since Time Pilot
is one of our all-time favorite games, this one was a shoe-in.
Gamma Bros. from Pixel Jam is one of the finest examples of 8-bit pixel design used to create a compelling and deep game experience. The unique game play involves controlling both Gamma Bros. ships at the same time, while using two sets on controls: WASD to fire and the <- arrow keys-> to move. This game simply screams for an arcade cabinet with dual Robotron joysticks (we can only dream). The graphics are very Minter-esque with a bit of Atari 8-bit Synapse (Fort Apocalypse, Zepplin) thrown-in for good measure. In all honestly, we at 8bitrocket.com bow to the pixelated majesty of Pixel Jam's creation. To us, they represent the top of the heap in pixel
art game design.
Abominaball from Photon Storm is a fantastic
re-creation of an Atari ST Public Domain classic. Photon Storm has emerged (in
one year) are a premier developer of retro and modern Flash games. This retro
classic puzzler with modern clean graphics, top notch level design, and
wonderfully designed interface will have you gaming well into the night to
figure out the key to all 50 levels. You can even put in the "8bitrocket" level
start code for an ST/AMIGA demo style visual treat. Flattering will get you some
where in the 8bitrocket arcade!
Law Of The West Pinball from Gaming Your Way
is of of the best examples of late 80's, early 90's video pinball ever put
into Flash form. It doesn't hurt that we are Old West-ophiles here at
8bitrocket, having been brought up on a steady diet of Clint Eastwood in our
youth. That, combined with our fascination with video pinball in the 90's
(before there was anything else retro to play) makes it a perfect game for our
first five inductees. This title features pinball action on a vertically and
horizontally scrolling playfield which allows the table and ball size to look
realistic and play just like a real table.
That's it for the first set of Hall of Fame inductees. Please email us at
info[at]8bitrocket[dot]com if you have a game that you would like considered for
the Arcade (Retro Star
award) and maybe for a Hall of Fame award in the future.
Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 29, 2008
Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 29, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers.
This time we have:
A new version of Flash Develop; More dev diary and playable demos from Squize; A
very informative Zobieland game postmortem; Creating games with Papervision 3D;
Using Bitmapdata for collisions in a side scroller; The best sites to learn and
discuss Flash; Does your Browser History depict your gender? Whiflash is finally
launched; A Sudoku creator / solver in AS3; Emanuele's in game ad tests, and
more.
Flash Develop 3.0 RC 1.0 is released!
The
latest version of the incredible piece of software has been released. (Donate
to them). It includes new Zarjaz such as Live Syntax Error Checking for AS3,
Smart contextual event type completion, and a lot more exciting code head stuff.
Squize's X is coming along very nicely
Over at the
Gamingyourway.com site, Squize has posted some
new builds of his Asteroids (rocks) / Geometry Wars (control) blaster,
X. It is very fun,
looks great and should be a great addition to our
Retro Arcade
if and or when it can be distributed.
Creating A Game With
Papervision 3D
Mochiland has published a very cool new
article by Iain Lobb that is more discussion than tutorial on the merits of
Papervision and the process needed to make a game with it.
Photon
Storm celebrates the holidays with an Atari ST inspired demo
Rich
posted this last week, but I am just coming out of a post x-mas stupor and
am finally posting about it, it will also go into my
Atari Nerd
Round Up this week. The music for
his x-mas
card / demo was taken directly from an Atari ST chip tune.
Using
BitmapData for collision detection in an art-based side scroller
Mark, over at the Ickydime blog, has some very
interesting new posts on his side scroller game engine. He is creating a
game that needs fluid animation and large characters, so he doesn't want to be
stuck into tile based or even grid based collision checks. His has some good
ideas about how to accomplish this.
Mr Sun's list of tutorial sites
Freeland Flash Games How To Make A Hit Zombieland Postmotem I have have always been intrigued by Sudoku, but never tried it enough to be Does your web browsing indicate your gender? Hatu's Whiflash launched As always, visit Flashgameblogs.com/a> for your daily dose...
for Flash
I'm happy to see Mr. Sun make a comeback to the world of
blogging, and his latest entry is a very nice collection of the
11 best sites (with tutorials, message boards, etc) for learning Flash/a>..
Freelance Flash Games
has a new feature on
how to make a hit game. The list features 7 good tips for making games on
any platform.
Zombieland
is one kickass game. It reminds me of some of the best NES side scrollers from
yesteryear. You can check out the postmortem on
Gamingyourway (and a link from
Game Poetry).
good at it. Here, Emanuele gives you a
nice tutorial on how to write a solver in AS3. He also has a
nice write up on the results of his own in-game ad banner tests. He got 2
Paypal donations!
A few weeks back I saw this
link posted at the I'm
Still Here blog, but didn't have a chance to check it out. Tom says that he
is 100% male, but because I can't use my computer for too many traditionally
MALE internet activities (what with the little kids running around all the
time), the site seems to think that I am at least 36% female. Pretty funny. It
is based on browser history (which I tend to clean out a lot). These are
the sites it recognized and listed as making me 36% female: Facebook, Yahoo,
Google, and Miniclip. These sites made me 64% male: IMDB, Weather, and Bestbuy.
I have been monitoring the
progress of this game for a few months because it reminds me of a few 8/16 bit
classics that I used to love playing (Gateway
to Apshai,
Temple of
Apshai) also some modern console games (Baldur's
Gate Dark Alliance).
It has
finally been launched on Newgrounds. I also plan to add this to our
Retro Arcade when (and
if) I can.