As I mentioned last month, I am taking part in the fourth game development contest on the SA Forums. I haven’t posted a new entry since then so it’s about time I posted what I’ve come up with so far! The Game: Clicky The theme of the game needs to be ‘Dealing with the devil’ [...]
Tag Archives: My Games
Graphics vs Gameplay for Monetary Worth
While writing my previous post about where Flash games are going, I started to think about graphics and how they apply to peoples’ perceptions of games. We look at modern games on consoles and ooh and aah about how pretty they look. We then plonk down a nice amount of cash (usually £40-50 here) to [...]
SA GameDev Contest
Another game development contest on the SomethingAwful forums! The theme is ‘Dealing With The Devil’ which should present some interesting possibilities. I’ve got the month of June to come up with something finished so expect a result before July! My initial idea is some sort of game where you have a top-down view of a [...]
Where are Flash Games going?
Flash games, Indie games and casual gaming in general are all doing very well at the moment, Flash games in particular being in a very good place for developers. The tools required to develop in AS3 are readily available (there are very good paid tools available [Flash IDE, FDT, Flex Builder] and it’s possible to [...]
The Last Stand: Why it works
The Last Stand By Chris “Con” Condon, this game pits you, the player, as a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. The aim of the game is the survive as long as possible in order to be rescued, fighting off waves of zombies as you do so. You control your character using the WASD keys to [...]
10 most played Flash Games
I saw over at gigoam.com that they have a list up of the ten most played flash games on the mochi network in 2008. Most of the entries are pretty predictable but one of them was really strange: Paris oh Paris. The game consists entirely of throwing fatty foods at Paris Hilton to fatten her [...]
Fantastic Contraption
I just came across this game today (http://fantasticcontraption.com/) and had a blast with it. The gist of the game is you have an object and need to get this object to the goal zone. This is accomplished by constructing crude machines out of a number of component parts available to you that will (hopefully) propel [...]
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