Category Archives: Contests

Flash Game Competition (Stanford, Adobe, Mochi, JayIsGames & more!)

Posted on January 26, 2011 by 8bitjeff

In conjunction with the Stanford Dance Marathon / Hackathon 2011 (?!), Stanford University is throwing a three week long Flash Game competition with the theme of Benevolence.    Squize, Iain Lobb, and Keith Peters (along with Steve and I)  will be … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up With The Mochis #2: A Creeping Realization

Posted on January 25, 2011 by 8bit_admin

So while looking over the contest entries for the 2011 Mochis,   I was struck by one common emotion: despair.  Why?  Because every one of the games is so damned good.  I’m not kidding.    All of the entries are … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up With the Mochis #1: Bio Break

Posted on January 24, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Jeff and I have been asked by the fine people at Mochi Media to help judge the 2011 Mochi Awards for the Flash Gaming Summit this year.    The first order business Mochi asked from us to was to write … Continue reading →

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8bitrocket Atari Inspired 16K Retro Re-make contest winner(s) announcement!

Posted on January 17, 2011 by 8bitjeff

We had a very tough time choosing the winner(s) as every game was excellent. Some made excellent use of technology,  some were every inventive, and others made nice use of the source material as a jumping off point to push in … Continue reading →

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16K Contest : Final Public Vote Tally

Posted on January 10, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Here are the final public votes.  We will put this together with our votes and announce the First and Second place winners this week.  Thanks for playing.

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16K Contest Voting: Final Chance! (Updated)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Get your votes in for the 16K contest!  Only 2 more days. Update: I just looked at the voting logs and it appears that are some “oddities” in the voting records.   We will take a long look at the … Continue reading →

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16K Game Contest Voting

Posted on January 4, 2011 by 8bit_admin

Now it is time to vote your favorite game in the 16K contest!  Voting ends in one week (Monday, January 11th) (voting is now closed) Not sure?  Try the Games Again: 16K Lander Axe Quest BattleWire 16K DABOMB The Diabolical … Continue reading →

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16 K Contest Update : Voting Starts Next Week

Posted on December 31, 2010 by 8bit_admin

Well the holidays smacked-up hard over here at 8bitrocket.com Towers, but we are preparing for the final voting for the 16K Game contest.  We have decided to wait to start the voting until most pople are back from vacation/holiday on … Continue reading →

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PhotonStorm’s Cat Astro Phi an indie game of the week selection at Gamasutra

Posted on December 26, 2010 by 8bitjeff

Cat Astro Phi, by PhotonStorm’s Richard Davey, is one of the brilliant games selected this week for the Gamasutra “Best Of Indie Games”. Cat Astro Phi is a masterfully crafted, retro-inspired, maze-based exploration-adventure-shooter that should please any game player, especially … Continue reading →

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Play the 8bitrocket 16K Atari Retro-Remake Entries

Posted on December 21, 2010 by 8bitjeff

The deadline has passed for entering a game into the 8bitrocket Atari Inspired Retro-Remake contest. We have received a number of high-quality entries. You can play each at the links below. Voting will start later in the week and run … Continue reading →

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7 hours left to enter the 16K Atari Inspired Retro-Remake Contest

Posted on December 20, 2010 by 8bitjeff

It is currently 5:00PM PST. We have already received a number of very well made games, so the competition is fierce.   It is so fierce that I have decided to also give a copy of our book, the Essential Guide … Continue reading →

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Atari 16K Retro Remake Contest Nears Final Date

Posted on December 17, 2010 by 8bitjeff

This Sunday evening, at 11:59 Pacific Standard Time,  is  the deadline for entries into the 16K Atari Retro Inspired Re-make Contest. We have already received a number of very well made entries, so the competition is fierce. Good luck, and … Continue reading →

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16K Atari Inspired Retro Re-Make Contest Update

Posted on December 9, 2010 by 8bitjeff

Here is the latest news on the contest: The biggest news is that we are going to extend the contest end date until Sunday 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time December 19th. This will give everyone the entire weekend to find time … Continue reading →

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Indie, Web , Flash, Retro Game Development Interweb Mash-up – Dec 5, 2010

Posted on December 5, 2010 by 8bitjeff

16k Contest Update We added a new Sponsor and prize to the 16K game contest.  There are 10 days left to get your 16K game in. We have already received a couple games from Ace The Super Villain, so he is … Continue reading →

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8bitrocket 16K Contest Update: New Prize Added!

Posted on December 1, 2010 by 8bit_admin

So we are now 15 days from our 16K contest deadline.  We have had a lot of interest and we are expecting some really neat games to play.   Today we are announcing a new prize to Grand Prize package. … Continue reading →

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What Can Be Made In 16K? Atari 5200 16K ROM Games

Posted on November 23, 2010 by 8bit_admin

Here is some 16K inspirations for you.  The following are videos of some Atari 5200 games made in 16K or less.  The ROMs for these games fit on a 16K cart.  the games used the plethora of hardware features available … Continue reading →

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Announcing the 8bitrocket 16K Retro Re-make Contest ** Small Rule Update

Posted on November 19, 2010 by 8bitjeff

Note (12/8/2010): The Prize package has been extended and the end date moved to December 19th at 11:59Pm PST. Note (11/19/2010): We have modified the rules slightly to help with file size issues. The HTML wrapper file will not longer … Continue reading →

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Atari Haunted House – Wii Contest Winner

Posted on October 23, 2010 by 8bit_admin

We’d like to congratulate Syd Lexia for his winning entry in our “Wii Atari Haunted House  Contest”.  We asked readers to describe an Atari 2600 game that they wouls like to see remade in the 21st century by Atari.  Here … Continue reading →

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Review : Atari Haunted House – Wii : Plus Win A Copy!

Posted on October 4, 2010 by 8bit_admin

Note: This is the first a new series of articles where we review new games from a retro/viral/indie/web game developer/technical writer perspective.  Since we are not a game review site, we don’t want to review every game out there, but … Continue reading →

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