Author: itvbadmin

  • Mochi Game Of The Day Review 9/10/09: Green-Gray World (Updated) An unauthorized port of an indie PC Game?

    Mochi Game Of The Day Review 9/10/09: Green-Gray World (Updated) An unauthorized port of an indie PC  Game? GAME OF THE DAY: Green Gray World: Not For Losers (a stolen game?) Note: It has been brought to my attention that this game looks and plays very much like an indie…

  • Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Castle Quest

    Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Castle Quest GAME OF THE DAY: Castle Quest Castle Quest is a side scrolling RPG by Axis Games, where you are tasked with hacking, slashing, and casting your way through seven beautifully drawn levels of bad-ass retro action. You start with just a simple…

  • Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Heat Rush

    Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Heat Rush I have been really really extra busy on a big “day-job” project that has left the corridors of 8bitrocket towers a little empty for the last few weeks. I miss doing all the game reviews and will commence with more of them…

  • Nintendo Chooses Sides on AS2 vs AS3 Battle: AS2 wins

    Nintendo released a new updated for the Wii Internet channel that supports AS2 content, but reports itself as Flash 9.  How could this be?  Well, it’s because the new support for Flash in the Wii opera Browser is actually for Flash Lite 3.1, which supports only AS2.   It looks like…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mash-up: Monday, Aug 31, 2009: Flash Game Distribution Reviews

    Flash Game Interweb Mash-up: Monday, Aug 31, 2009: Flash Game Distribution Reviews One cannot live by Mochi games alone. I burned myself out after 3 weeks of reviewing virtually every Mochi game launched (during that time frame), so I have decided to take a little detour and review the latest…

  • “B.A. PANTS’ (not underwear for the UK folks, but trousers)

    ‘B.A. PANTS’ (not underwear for the UK folks, but trousers). Note: This diatribe is only tangentially related to Flash game development. Read at your own risk.   I used to wear jeans and skate shoes to work every day. I did this for nearly 10 years even though I was an…

  • Atari Nerd Retro Gaming Interweb Mash-Up: August 24, 2009

    First off, some Nolan Bushnell stuff: A Story about uWink Hollywood , plus a story about Nolan Bushnell getting back into the game business with Battleswarm! Here is a retro style Flash named Zapataur that will help you save an actual brick and mortar arcade from extinction, just by playing…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Mochi Game Reviews,nbsp; Tuesday Aug 25, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Mochi Game Reviews  Tuesday Aug 25, 2009 Wow, what a haul today. Great games all around. This is what happens when you take a few days off.  Games covered this time: Bug Box,  Kahoots, Crazy Go Nuts 2, The Unfortunate Necromancer, Little Farm, Pirate Golf Adventure,…

  • JayIsGames.com Gives .+.palindromes.+. plus A Nice Review

    Sometimes I wonder how to get games promoted on well-known web sites.  Sometimes I wonder why some of our more high profile games seem to get lost in the shuffle.   Days like today do not make this puzzle any easier to solve.  Today, JayIsGames.com decided to post a positive review…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Mochi Game Reviews, Friday Aug 21, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Mochi Game Reviews, Friday Aug 21, 2009 For a second straight day I am doing a Mochi Review AND Site, Blog, and Game Mashup. I am a sadist, and I hate myself. I even have two games of the day today, one Mochi…

  • Indie Game I.P. Issues Start To Heat-Up

    We here at 8bitrocket.com spend a lot of time trying to educate small developers on the issues of Intellectual Property” (I.P. or IP). Why? Well, one because we love you. Two, because we both have vast experience working for major corporations that really take the issue of “Intellectual Property” seriously.…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews,Thursday Aug 20, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews,Thursday Aug 20, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.  I figured why not try to do as many of these as possible, as often as possible There is…

  • 2008 Prediction Results, Plus 10 New 2009 Predictions!

    Last year we made 10 predictions for the next 12 months It’s time to evaluate our progress and make 10 more predictions for 2009-1010 . First, the results from last year. Not too shabby. Some of the more “out there” ones(Atari and Bushnell, Sierra and the Williams) actually proved to…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews, Aug 18, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews, Aug 18, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.  I had to take a weekend break because it was my wedding anniversary. My wife was already not pleased…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 (18 Games Graded)

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 (18 Games Graded). I am still catching up with the non-featured games today. It will possibly be Sunday before I actually get to them all (sans most of the Dress Up games). There are some nice quality games, some puzzling ones, and…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Kick Ass Game Day.

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Kick Ass Game Day. All great games today! Just this batch will have you playing awesome free games for weeks. Who needs a Wii or Xbox Live Arcade with this set of gems? Pretty much all of them could have been Game of…

  • One Of The Best Mainstream Game Articles In A Long Time: The Magic of Wii Sports Resort @ IGN

    Michael Thomsen @ wii.ign.com has written what I believe is one of the best gaming articles I have ever read.  His piece, The Magic of Wii Sports Resort is notable not just for it’s structure and style, but also for its sentiment and passion.  Thomson writes about about game narrative,…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2009 (14 Games Graded)

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2009 (14 Games Graded). .Again, Wednesday seems to be “new release” day at Mochi. I couldn’t get to all the games (many of them Dress up games), but I will attempt to cover them all this week as releases slow down. 8bitrocket Featured Game…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 (11 Games Graded)

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 (11 Games Graded). My hat’s off to the Mochi staff once again for always doing a great job of selecting the Featured games. I do (once in a while) find games that I think should have been featured that the over-worked Mochi…

  • Micropayments In Flash Games: What Would You Pay For?

    There has been a lot of discussion lately about Micropayments in Flash games. New service offerings such as Mochicoins and Gamersafe promise untold riches for Flash developers beyond sporadic licenses and advertising pennies. Both the aforementioned services have plans to limit the amount of games in the system by vetting…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 10, 2009 (26 Games Graded)

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 10, 2009 (26 Games Graded). So, I take one day off (Sunday) and the “fit hits the shan”. There are so many truck loads of new Mochi games every day, and I have no idea how portal owners keep up (if they do at…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup (including Mochi Reviews) Aug 8, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup (including Mochi Reviews) Aug 8, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.   Let’s start with the games. Here are the titles on tap for today: Mochi Game Reviews: Multitask:  Play multiple mini-games…

  • R.I.P. John Hughes

    R.I.P John Hughes. I did not think I would feel this bad the day the filmmaker John Hughes died.   The trailer above is for the “Breakfast club”, widely regarded as the best teen movies of the 80’s  It is also one of the few movies that I can distinctly recall…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, Aug 06, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, Aug 06, 2009 I know you are going to play the world tiniest violin for me, but reviewing games is hard. No matter how much I try, I’ll never be able to grade every Mochi game, as there are a flood of new…

  • Possibly The Scariest/Best Flash Game Contest Ever

    I have finally found what might be the scariest/best Flash Game Contest ever created.  Fellow Flash Game Developers, I show you this: Do you recognize that logo in the bottom-right corner?  That’s right, it’s Yahtzee Crowshaw from Zero Punctuation at http://www.escapistmagazine.com, right now the best game reviewer on the planet.…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009 Wow, what a great day full of wonderful Mochi games. Oh, we have a few mediocre games, but really, this is the most A grades I have given out. Maybe Wednesday will be the new golden day of gaming (like…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up:Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009 Here’s the deal. Don’t piss me off. You know you have pissed me off when your game aggravates me more than the FIVE (count em up), FIVE dress up games. Let me repeat that, FIVE DRESS UP GAMES! FIVE! FIVE!…

  • Clayton Grey’s Blit Layer Erase Speed Test

    Clayton Grey’s Blit Layer Erase Speed Test A super diligent and incredibly intelligent (aren’t you all) 8bitrocket reader (and now contributor), Clayton Grey has been running some tests on blitting entire screen-sized portions of BitmapData to clear the screen and re-paint.   He doesn’t have a blog of his own,…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 03, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 03, 2009 There are some pretty good games on tap for today: I just did one of these last night, so I am surprised by the overall quality just a few hours later. One game didn’t work properly, but there were no…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Sunday, Aug 02, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Sunday, Aug 02, 2009 It’s late Sunday night, the kids are finally in bed, I completed putting Clayton Grey’s speed tests onto the site, and translated Steve’s game into Flex (for asset embeds). I now have just a few short minutes to reviews games…

  • Flash Game Distribution Game Report Sunday August 2, 2009

    This is the first episode of “Flash Game Distribution: Game Report”, in which we cover the newest games coming out of the Flash Game Distribution feed. I have never really sat down to look at the FGD games, but my first impression is that the games are of fairly high…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Saturday, Aug 01, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Saturday, Aug 01, 2009 Today begins our new attempt to review every Mochi New Release and Featured game as often as possible. This will be daily for as long as we can keep it up The games now have 4 review types. 1. 8bitrocket…

  • Race To The Bottom #1: The Worst Of Kongregate

    I’ve been inspired by Jeff’s reviews of the newest Mochi games to start looking around other “UGC” (“User Generated Content” in the biz lingo) sites to try find games that so terrible they can’t be missed. The first stop, Kongregate.com. Now, let me get this out of the way first.…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, July 31, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, July 31, 2009 I love games. Doing all of these reviews is starting to help bring back a little passion for games that I seem to have lost as this has become more of a job than a hobby. These reviews are certainly…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, July 30, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, July 30, 2009 I have decided to go back to the 9 new games (not featured) today because I like torture. Actually, my hope is to find some gems missed by the over-worked Mochi staff, and the provide some constructive criticism – unless I get…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mash-up : July 29. 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mash-up : July 29. 2009 We delivered the first 3 chapters for our book on Flash Game Development this past weekend. Before I start my game and write up for the next chapter, I have been spending the week playing and many different games as possible and…

  • Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7 Featured and the 2 best non-featured games on tap for today. It’s a very strong group of games today and almost everyone will find a game that they will like to play. Yesterday was NOT a great day for Mochi…

  • Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Nine more games on tap for today. OUCH! Not much good going on today. Some fun to be had, but its a stretch. This is the worst day so far with only a couple average (C) games and one slightly above…

  • Wii Motion Plus/Wii Sports Resort : First Impressions

    I picked-up my reserved copy of Wii-Motion Plus/Wii Sports Resort yesterday at Target.  My first impression is this: No Need To Reserve It. There were many many copies, and not too many buyers.  I also noticed that Target was giving away a free game with every Wii sold.  Wow, what…

  • FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1(Updated)

    FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1 **** Update **** Last Thursday, as I was getting into my car to leave for work, someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was a Verizon technician. He took a look around and said, “Yep” conduit…