Monthly Archives: March 2009

Finally, within the last couple days, one of our games reached 1,000,000 plays (as recorded by Mochiads).  Pumpkinman was one of the first games we put on Mochiads, right after the service launched. While this is nice mile-stone, it’s also … Continue reading →

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: March 25, 2009 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This time we cover a lot of articles on monetization (because that’s what I found). Maybe this is … Continue reading →

Tweening in Flex AS3 – sans MXML On Sunday night I decided to start working a new game called Blaster Mines that is a direct descendant of my 4K Game Contest Entry, Mine-X 4K. I originally thought that I would … Continue reading →

Game Poetry 4K Game Competition Post-mortems Urbansquall has posted 4 Post-mortems on games in the 4K Game Competition. Aside from my all too long entry on Mine-X 4K, you can read about Face Dodge, Falling With Style, and Grompers. I … Continue reading →

Will Nonoba GameRise Change the Landscape for Flash Gaming? I have been reading a lot about Nonoba Gamerise and I am very interested, but also a little cautious. For some reason, the Danish Company Nonoba doesn’t have quite the cache … Continue reading →

So, I was doing a search this morning to find interesting content for you guys on the world of Indie Flash gaming and I came across this relatively new site called  HeyZap. They seem to be a new distribution channel … Continue reading →

Agent Pixel 6502 #1 I have quite a few games ideas floating around that have not been implemented and I have decided to pick one up and go with it for my next real ad sponsored game. I have not … Continue reading →

Mines and Bricks in 64K? The judging for the first and second jury prizes in the 4K game competition is over. Two simply incredible entries won (A-Steroids4K and Dungeon Romp).   Unfortunately neither my Mine-X 4K (Mochi version, 4K Comp version) … Continue reading →

So I just finished added our pre-loader, title screen, mochi ads and mochi leaderboard, and some support code for those those things to my 4K games and it is now 100K! In reality, 100K is not that much, but think … Continue reading →

Wired has a nice article  about “designing under contraint”, and how it can boost both productivity and creativity. Here is a quote: “The idea of operating within constraints’of making more with less’is especially relevant these days. From Wall Street to … Continue reading →

4K Game Competition Game #2 (game spoiler) I have decided to post my contest entry also. This is NOT the exact same game as I added one line of instruction text and the Mochi Services (which bloated it to 16K). … Continue reading →

OK, here is my entry into the 4K game competition.  It’s actually 8K now with the Mochi services added. Neon Bricks 4K is take on the classic game of Breakout.  The basic rules are no different than Breakout: destroy all … Continue reading →

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: March 8, 2009 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This time we cover: A selection of blogs entries on subject ranging from Eclipse v. Flashdevelop to art … Continue reading →