Author: itvbadmin

  • Work in progress: A Generalized Game Engine with AS3 in Flex

    Work in progress: A Generalized Game Engine with AS3 in Flex So, I made the move to Flex about a month back, and have spent most of my time experimenting with how to create a generalized Game Engine. I started with the idea that I would combine the use of…

  • Blast-a-thon retro evolved Hey Hey Shooter Classic added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase

    Blast-a-thon retro evolved Hey Hey Shooter Classic added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Hey Hey Shooter Classic is a  fast and furious top-down shooter game reminiscent of Geometry Wars Retro. Be sure to check out the achievements and get to the top of the leader boards!  – Developer: Nate Pacyga.…

  • $100,000 Flash Game Revenue Experiment (updated!)

    $100,000 Flash Game Revenue Experiment (updated! now with 25% more free content!)I stumbled upon the APMID web site this morning. APMID stands for Accumulate Profit Margin Investment Destroy  (I have no idea either). The author (unnamed on the post) is attempting to make $100,000 from casual viral Flash games. The…

  • Exceptional Quality Atari ST Remake, Abominaball Added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase

    Exceptional Quality Atari ST Remake, Abominaball Added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Here is the description straight from author, Richard Davey: Defuse the bombs in the right order in this 50 level arcade puzzle game. Don’t touch the wrong bomb or take too long, and be careful how you plan…

  • Finally: Two New Books About Video Game History Set For Release

    Finally: Two New Books About Video Game History Set For Release If you have followed my ranting on this subject, you will already know that I love books about video games and video game history (i.e not strategy guides) and that I don’t think there are enough of them being…

  • Tutorial: Using MP3 Files In Flex 3 with Flash Player 9.x

    Tutorial: Using MP3 Files InFlex 3 with Flash Player 9.x This tutorial will explore several different methods to use MP3 files in Flex 3. We will cover simple loading and embedding, as well as strategies for seamlessly looping MP3 files. Some of these concepts can be used for Flash CS2/CS3…

  • A new Whirled Contest?

    I wrote about and tested www.whirled.com a few weeks back. It is a slick system by which game developers can create single and multiplayer games, and also earn money with them through micro transactions. They have a new contest that just started and will run for three months, and possibly…

  • The Classic Atari USB Joystick Review

    The Classic Atari USB Joystick Review My first real video game experience was on an Atari 2600 at a neighbors house in 1978.  Although I had played some Apple II games, had a cheap Pong knock-off, and was familiar with the arcade games of the time, the 2600 was the…

  • GameStorm! Podcast #13: Site update and GameStorm Classic Revival!

    This week we clear out our backlog of podcasts with GameStorm #13.  (We say #14 in the podcast but that is because we recorded the Atari Nerd Podcast #1 before this one) This podcast includes a discussion about our web site and a ton of classic GameStorm! action. Check it…

  • Atari NerdPodcast #1!!! **BONUS!!**

    This week we unveil another new feature for 8bitrocket.com: The Atari Nerd Podcast!  We have decided that Atari fanboys need a podcast all their own and Jeff and I are only too happy to oblige.  This one has been in mothballs for a couple weeks. It’s very rough, and we…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 1, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 1, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. I took last week off, so there is a lot to cover: Efficient Multiple Object Collision Detection with groups; Using Game Entities for in game objects; Doom in…

  • New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #2: 8bitjeff season 2 start

    New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #2: 8bitjeff season 2 start Note: New Star Soccer 4 (NSS4) is a brilliant independent game by Simon Read. It was released on Windows and Mac platforms in early November and I am spending some of my free time with it, grinding out a career as…

  • Outstanding shoot ’em up Polarity added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase

    Outstanding shoot ’em up Polarity added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase WOW! And that’s a pretty powerful WOW! Thomsampson, Jeb (www.stimunationgames.com),  Vengeance (www.gamesgamesgames.co.uk) and Squize (now at GamingYourWay www.gamingyourway.com)  teamed up to put this game out a while ago, and it has just hit Mochi.  We couldn’t be more happy…

  • Happy Thanksgiving from 8bitrocket.com

    If you are not from the USA, then you might not be aware that today we celebrate a holiday we know as Thanksgiving. You can read wikipedia to find out the details on what is basically a harvest celebration.  It is all of those things, but to most of us…

  • Fresh Kill : Spike Arcade Edition

    Fresh Kill : Spike Arcade Edition  Spike.com, the web arm of Spike TV has launched an arcade filled with games that they claim are just for men (women will get a kick out of some of t these too I am sure).   The arcade currently contains 5 titles that…

  • Flex Files: Sound Exploration – Loop an Mp3 with a ByteArray?

    Flex Files: Sound Exploration – Loop an Mp3 with a ByteArray? After reading through all of the documentation on loading and embedding sounds in Flex Framework swf file, I have come to the conclusion that Adobe has been and continues to have its collective head in the sand when it…

  • The 56k Connection : PigRace Review

    The 56k Connection : PigRace Review http://www.picasogames.com/games/pigraceBy PicasoGames Today we go to the farm – it’s time to race and your pig is entered. PigRace is an easy, good-looking game that involves navigating your piggy through various obstacles to get to each level’s finish line.  Using the tried and true…

  • 3d Space Shooter Star Force added to 8bitrocket Retro Showcase

    3d Space Shooter Star Force added to 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Star Force,  a very well made 3d first person perspective space shooter has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase. In the game, you pilot a space fighter against hordes of enemy pilots, asteroids and other baddies. It has the…

  • Keeping up the pace

    Squize, over at Gamingyourway.com has posted a heart tugging piece on Cessation Time Distortion – the brain’s way of dealing with addiction after you have stopping feeding it what it wants. Squize is currently fighting his addicting to nicotine, having quit smoking a week ago. We all have something that…

  • 6 new music clips added to the 8bitrocket royalty free music library

    function DHTMLSound(surl) { document.getElementById(“dummysoundplayerspan”).innerHTML=”http://+surl+“; } function DHTMLSoundLoop(surl) { document.getElementById(“dummysoundplayerspan”).innerHTML=”http://+surl+“; } function stopSound() { document.getElementById(“dummysoundplayerspan”).innerHTML=””; } function downloadSoundLoop(surl) { var locationString=”sounddownload.aspx?”+surl; //alert(locationString); location.href=locationString; } 6 new music clips added to the 8bitrocket royalty free music library I spent the only fee time I had this Saturday creating 6 new music clips…

  • A Musical Interlude: One Of The Best Song’s I’ve Ever Heard

    I’ve been getting into 60’s punk lately and I “found” this gem from the L.A. 60’s punk/garage band Love fronted by Authur Lee.  If you thought the MC5 and Iggy Pop were the only precursors to 70’s punk, think again (“Seven And Seven is” from “De Capo“, Electra 1967):

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 20, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 20, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This time we cover The Casual Collective; Playing Flash games at Maximum Size; A fantastic Atari ST Remake; Smart Game Interface Choices; Kongregate’s Kred system; Box2d Tutorials; The…

  • Alpha And Omega: Phantasy Star and Fallout 3

    OK, so I back-slid to Phantasy Star I last weekend after trying in vain to enjoy Phantasy Star II and Phantasy Star III.  The later games have not aged-well, but, even though I can’t stand some of the “puzzles” (too much repetition involved) of the first Phantasy Star title, the game…

  • GameStorm! Podcast #12: Flex, Holiday Game Wrap-Up, Game Endings, etc.

    In this week’s GameStorm! podcast we talk about a Flex, Holiday Game Wrap-Up, Game Endings, and more.   Have fun. You can download the podcast here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/podcasts/gamestorm12.mp3

  • Unique shooter, Split ’em Up, added to the 8bitrocket retro showcase

    Unique shooter, Split ’em Up, added to the 8bitrocket retro showcase Created by Mochi user, mattS, Split ’em Up is a top notch retro shooter. From the eye pleasing gradient arcade font to the retro music selection, this one is pure retro class.  It’s a very fun, unique shooter with…

  • Google Analytics Adds Flash Tracking

    Today on the Google Analytics blog they announced a full suite of new features that can help track viral Flash content.  These features go far beyond their previous offering, which was simply a JavaScript pass-through.  You can check out the new features for yourself over here: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/11/want-to-track-adobe-flash-now-you-can.html

  • Flash Maximizer – New Firefox Plug-in for full screen gaming

    The Flash Maximizer 1.06 has been released on the Firefox Ad-On page. Here is the description from the site:–This small extension for Firefox allow you to “maximize” Flash games (and other Flash content) by clicking a button in the toolbar. The Flash content will be reloaded in the full browser…

  • No Flash On iPhone? Is Apple Becoming Microsoft?

    Just when I thought I was going the right way by ditching windows for the Max OSX, a story like this appears on wired today: Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone “Allowing Flash ‘ which is a development platform of its own ‘ would just be too dangerous…

  • The 56K Connection: Fisherboy review.

    Fisher Boy,  http://www.box10.com/fisher-boy.html California wildfires have caused more than 60,000 people to be evacuated from their homes and we’ve had 3 days of constant television coverage of the devastation.  Although I’m not in any imminent danger, soot and ash is flying through the air covering everything with a layer whitish…

  • Free Flash Game Development Tool Kit

    Free Flash Game Development Tool Kit My latest quest has been to create both a Windows and Mac Free Flash Game development tool kit. I have heard some rumors and horror stories about some of the popular free tools available, so I decided to take a look for myself and…

  • New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #1: 8bitjeff mid season 1 report

    New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #1: 8bitjeff mid season 1 report Note: New Star Soccer 4 has been released by Simon Read and his team at Newstargames.com. Being a supporter of both the world footie game and independent computer games, especially Read’s Masterpiece, New Star Soccer 3, I have been…

  • iMac Gaming: Playing Fallout 3 With A Boot Camp Partition.

    iMac Gaming: Playing Fallout 3 With A Boot Camp Partition. Note: iMac gaming is a blog about playing games on a 24″, 2GB dual core iMac running at just about 3 ghz with an NVidia 8800 GS graphics chip. When I made the big Mac switch back in August there…

  • Superb Retro Shooter Hallows Revenge Added to The 8bitrocket Retro Showcase

    Superb Retro Shooter Hallows Revenge Added to The 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Play it now in our Retro Showcase: Created by Mochi developer, Earthwind, in their words: You must defend Earth against the invading fleet of Hallow, a remote planet where Halloween is the normal way of life! The citizens of…

  • Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 11, 2008

    Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 13, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This time we cover a new online game creator; A new blog just about good games; An Interview With Game Jacket; Flash CS4 in the wild; Gimp Shop;…

  • Flex Files: Tutorial – Flex 3 HelloWorld in FlashDevlop

    Flex Files: Tutorial –  Flex 3  HelloWorld in FlashDevlop I have decided to start exploring the world of developing Flash games outside the Flash CS3/CS4 IDE. This makes sense for me because I rarely use the time line or the drawing tools inside Flash. Also, I am itching to use…

  • Late To The Game: Phantasy Star II : Oops Onto III

    I started Phantasy Star II last night on the GBA.  I played for about 20 minutes and decided I had enough.  Why?  2 things: 1. You cannot [Save] any where.  Why was this taken away from the design of Phantasy Star I?  The GBA version should have added this, but did…

  • A new Whirled?

    A new Whirled? I get a lot of press releases, and while I read them all, I rarely spend the time to post an entire entry about a single one. Sometimes though, something special arrives and I feel the need to investigate it and tell you guys what I have…

  • Late To The Game: Sorry, Phantasy Star Is NOT One Of The Best Games Ever Made

    I hate to do this. I like to keep these blogs as positive as possible, but in this case I just can’t do it. I am finished with Phantasy Star. I did not finish the game mind you, but I have finished my time with it. I ran into another…

  • The 56K Connection: Olive War ‘ Attack 1: Veggies from above review.

    The 56K Connection: Olive War ‘ Attack 1: Veggies from above review. Editors Note: Marz Nolte is the newest 8bitrocket editorial team member. She brings a much needed female voice to the pages of this site. And yes, she does really only have a 56K modem. Olive War ‘ Attack…

  • Retro Blaster – A look back (and forward), plus a new high score.

    Retro Blaster – A look back, plus a new high score. The first independent Flash game I ever released on the harsh Flash gaming public was my Asteroids/Blasteroids loving tribute called Retro Blaster. It was finished after many false starts, and well before Mochi or GameJacket allowed us to derive…