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Simply Brilliant: XKCD New Map Of Online Communities
Take a look at the map. We definitely fit into the “Plains of Awkwardly Public Family Interactions”, and are nearly entrenched in “Niche Market Mountains” while actually drowning in the “Bay of Drama”, clinging to a life raft floating passed “Tech Blogs” our our way to in the giant “Sea Of Opinions”. At…
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Simply Brilliant: Keanu Is Sad / Sad Keanu Meme
This is not game related so I created an entire new category on the blog for things that I feel are “simply brilliant” and need to be shared. I would have just “liked” this to my Facebook page, but there is no like button on the page. My favorite part…
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Google Chrome App Store Will Open Soon..
The Chromium Blog has a new story today about the Chrome App Store. Here are the highlights: Developers can (and should) sign-up for a Google Web Store Payments Account (USA only right now) App Preview is now available so you can see how you app will look when the…
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Flash CS5 + Project Panel + Developer View = Pretty good way to code
I have been a Flash Develop devotee for that last 3 years. Even after I bought my Mac I made sure to install and keep Parallels updated as to not lose the feature-set I love so – Flex asset compile-time embedding, custom class and package recognition, a unified project work…
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Mobile Web Games In HTML5 – Hit and Miss
I have spent the first three days of this week working on a couple HTML5 games that will eventually make it into our book on the Canvas and will also probably show up here in some form or another (and maybe even in the various App Stores). I chose to…
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Does The Droid-X Blockbuster OnDemand Commercial Make Sense?
I have seen this commercial quite a few times and have always had a little “itch” in the back on my mind as I see it. I didn’t have much time to ponder this “itch” until this morning. I can’t find the commercial on-line (but I see it in online…
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Tutorial: Turn Your Flash Game Into A Google Chrome Web App (beta)
While the Google Chrome App Store will not be available until October 2010, you can still package-up your apps and test them as Chrome Web Apps. Google has some extensive documentation on the subject, but we are going to slice it down and show you the easiest path to success.…
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Atari Nerd Interweb Mash-up
Here are some of the more interesting Atari related retro gaming related tidbits I found while trolling across the infobaun. The Classis Game Room HD Reviews Atari 2600 Video Olympics – The only way to play pong on the 2600! (literally and hyberbole). Who doesn’t like Ice Hockey Pong with…
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The Future Of Web Games: The Google Chrome App Store
1Up.com is running a story from GDC Europe about the Google Chrome App Store. From the details provided, it looks like Google has a real winner on their hands. Here are the highlights from the article. Google Chrome App Store Launch Date: October 2010 Supported Technologies: Flash, HTML5/JavaScript, C++ Installation:…
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See It Quick: Actual Deleted Scene From Return Of The Jedi: Luke Becomes A Jedi
I know this is totally off topic, but it will probably be removed very soon. This is an actual deleted scene from Return Of The Jedi that shows Luke’s transformation into a Jedi. It’s less than 1 minute and better than Episode I-II-III combined. Note: Try this link if the…
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Space Gate Enemy Path Tutorial by Barnaby Byrne
Barnaby Byrne (Aka Badger Manufacture) has just released is latest retro inspired Flash Masterpiece, Space Gate, at Odo Games. I was some impressed with the games and the intricate enemy patterns within that I asked if he would be kind enough to explain to our readers exactly how it is…
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Featured New Flash Retro Game: Space Gate
We are incredibly proud to present our first new featured retro Flash game on the re-vamped 8bitrocket.com: Space Gate by Barnaby Byrne (AKA Badger Manufacture). As the first ever sponsored game by the wonderful new portal, Odo Games (run by Richard Hoddinott), Space Gate is one of my favorite Flash…
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Intel/TheGameCreators Game Development Contest (Dark Basic)
Intel & The Game Creators (Dark Basic) has a new Netbook Game development contest. Games must be written in Dark Basic. First prize is $5000. The competition opens on 4th August 2010 9AM GMT. The closing date for entries is 3rd October 2010 at 12PM GMT. You can check out…
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Help – Trackback spam
We are new to the WordPress world. While 99.99% of everything in this new land is awesome, there a a few annoyances. The biggest is the literal flood of Trackback link spam from “viral marketing” and “affiliate workers”. We get dozens of track-back link spam to mostly (99%) complete crap…
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RSS Feedburner Feed Fixed
One thing we forgot when we moved the site was to update the Feedburner to point to the new site. I just remembered to do it this morning. Here is the new Feedburner RSS link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/8bitrocketcomBlog …which also happens to be the OLD Feedburner RSS link…go figure 🙂
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Tutorial Mess : Please Help
In our recent move, there was simply no good way way to move over all of our tutorials. We altered the format so many times in 3.5 years, that moving them to something structured like Word Press was a huge problem. We have fixed as many issues “automagically” as possible,…
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Does The Windows 7 Phone Open-Up Silverlight Games Development?
Microsoft recently released the beta of the Windows 7 development tools, and Silverlight is big part of that release. Silverlight can used in conjunction with the XNA framework which gives Windows 7 Mobile apps access to Xbox Live, among other features. As well, (and as it should be), Windows 7…
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Contest: Jay Is Games Casual Gameplay Design Contest #8
Design a game that incorporates the theme Sandbox . It doesn’t have to be complex nor large in scope. You may use any browser-based technology platform Due date: August 1, 2010 Contest Site: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/06/game_design_competition_8.php
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Contest: Kongregate is going mobile
Here’s your opportunity to contribute to the mobile world. Adobe and Kongregate are working together to bring you the Mobile Flash Game Contest with Adobe Flash, which we’re giving away nearly $30,000 in prizes! We are hoping to engage users with fun games as part of a rich Internet experience…
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Contest : Flash Game License “Cell Your Flash Game”
The rules are simple: submit a high-quality Flash game that can be played and enjoyed on Android 2.2 smart phones. You can enter a brand new game or port one of your existing games, and you can enter more than one game in this contest. By entering, you agree to…
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Contest: Mochi Media – Mobile Gaming Contest with Adobe
Mochi Media and Adobe are putting on a Flash game contest and extending through the fall. You may remember that Mochi was one of the first to develop a mobile site for Android with Adobe’s new Flash player. Well, this ‘Made for Mobile’ contest is for developers to create games…
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Flash v. HTML 5 For Video? The YouTube API Blog speaks out
Flash v. HTML 5 For Video? YouTube API Blog speaks out I have spent the better part of the last month re-teaching myself Javascript (the OOP type this time around) and taking a dive into the HTML5 canvas. Steve and I are working on a book about the canvas so…
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The Retro Roms Blog – An amazing source to find new games for old tech
I stumbled across the Retro Roms blog today. This is a great site that focuses on new games for retro hardware. It also has some great general posts on the subject. Here are a couple of the ones that kept me around longer than I have time for: Dr. Mario…
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Strong Adobe CS5 Sales Show The Battle For Hearts And Minds Is Far From Over
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Adobe sales at $905 million for the first part of this year. Here is a nice quote: “…Apple’s stance does not yet appear to be deterring purchasers of CS5…“ What does this mean? It means that the corporate buyers, the ones with deep pockets…
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Apparenty, 360 “Natal” is Named “Kinect”, And Apparenty Someone Jumped The Gun On Talking About It
It’s now official (maybe) that the Xbox 360 “Motion Control” device, once named “Natal” will be named “Kinect”, and apparently we are not supposed to know this yet. The USA Today game “blog” (column, whatever) went with a story about it today, that now looks like this: Oops. Someone jumped…
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Mochi Creates Android Games Portal, Answers Our Burning Questions, Almost Makes Us Forget Apple
Yesterday, Mochi Media announced a dedicated games portal for the Android phone, m.mochigames.com: “The site, m.mochigames.com will feature more than 25 games and will be available upon the release of Google’s next version of Android (“FroYo”) phones. The site features mobile-optimized versions of puzzle game Biomass, card game Magic Towers…
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Flash 10.1 On Google TV, Chrome OS, Android Makes Apple Look Silly And Petty
Adobe announced the Flash 10.1 Beta today, and then went ahead and told everyone why it is so awesome. When Adobe is not on the ropes defending Flash from Steve Jobs’ shots below the belt, they are pretty good at explaining why Flash player 10.1 is so good. Here are…
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Why Google Rocks: Pac-Man in Google Banner (with co-op Ms. Pac-Man mode).
Why Google Rocks: Pac-Man in Google Banner (with co-op Ms. Pac-Man mode). To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the awesome (even more awesome than ever) Google has magically placed a Javascript version in their home page banner. By clicking on the “Insert Coin” button you will start up a…
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The internets is full of smart, beautiful people…actual complaints about the Google Pac-Man Doodle (edit)
The internets is full of smart, beautiful people…actual complaints about the Google Pac-Man Doodle (edit) The Google Doodle will only be live as Pac-Man for the next few hours(approx after the Champions League Final Tomorrow). I read a few blog entries on the anniversary celebration and some of the comments…
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Google Chrome Web Store: Finally, A REAL Place To Sell Flash Games To Consumers?
Maybe I’m the last to find out about these things, but The Google Chrome Web Store looks like the first really promising way to monetize web apps written in Flash, HTML 5, Silverlight, etc. It appears to work on the sample principle as the iPhone store, but make apps available…
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Virtual Pinball , An LCD Cabinet: My Pinball Dreams (Nearly) Realized?
I love pinball, and the last few years virtual pinball games like Pinball Hall Of Fame: The Williams Collection has satisfied some of my thirst for classic, kinetic, pinball action. However, there is nothing better than standing-up and playing a real pinball machine. However, the days of pinball machines are…
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Listen to Steve Woita On The Retronauts Podcast!
This comes via Gaming After 40. Frequent 8bitrocket.com visitor, Atari veteran, Flash game developer, Steve Woita talks about his work at Atari Games/Tengen on the the latest Retronauts podcast. It’s great to hear his voice, and hear is take (as well as his colleagues) on his time at Atari Games.…
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Apple in Anti-Trust Violation?
I read a small blurb in the local newspaper today (The Daily Breeze – yes, that’s the actual name of the paper) that states Apple might be in anti-trust violation over the rule that only Apple tools can be used to create iPod, iPad applications. This is a facet of…
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Random Thoughts: Should Google Buy Adobe?
Here is a random thought I had this weekend: Should Google buy Adobe? Will they buy Adobe? Here is why I ask. I appears to me that Google is the odd man out when it comes to development for its’ own mobile platform. Microsoft is going proprietary with their Windows…
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The Myth Making Of Nolan Bushnell: The Malcolm McLaren Of Video Games? Updated:
For many years, I naively believed that Nolan Bushnell invented the modern video game. I be lived he created the first video game company (Atari in 1972), I believed he created the first home video game (Atari Pong), and the first cartridge based game system (The Atari 2600). I believed…
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8-bit YouTube Retro Video Interweb-Mashup
8-bit YouTube Retro Video Interweb-Mashup A few people have sent over video links in the past couple weeks. I decided to take a look through YouTube for other various 8-bit, game/pop-culture and other 8bitrocket style videos for today’s mash-up. First up is a Lego / 8-bit mashup (sent by Alan…
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Nolan Bushnell once again is part of Atari!
Nolan Bushnell once again is part of Atari! It seems that Atari co-founder and all-round 70’s icon of arcade amusement and fun (think Pong, Atari 2600, Asteroids AND Chuck E. Cheese) has been re-added to the present day Atari’s board of directors. Gamesutra has a nice article about this interesting…
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Jeff at DRUPALCON Monday
I will be attending Drupalcon tomorrow for one day to give a short presentation. My day-job used Drupal to create a new site that has been very successful and I am going to lock-step with my Open Source brethren for a day and let the LAMP/DAMP soak into my bones.…
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Ace The Super Villain’s Alloy Tengu 2 DX Featured on the Yo Yo Games Site
Ace The Super Villain’s Alloy Tengu 2 DX Featured on the Yo Yo Games Site No, it’s not a Flash game, and it isn’t even playable in a web browser (yet), but The Yo Yo Games site (the makers of Game Maker Software) have featured the fun cool, scrolling blaster…
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Awesome Content Aware Fill Function in Photoshop CS5
Awesome Content Aware Fill Function in Photoshop CS5 This is such a cool function. This will certainly make the jigsaw puzzle and dress-up game makers excited at the possibilities! All kidding aside, this is why Photoshop costs $799!
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8bitrocket Aprils Fools Interweb Mashup: April 1, 2010
8bitrocket Aprils Fools Interweb Mashup: April 1, 2010 – Slashdot adds chat roulette features to it’s discussions! – Where does Topeka end and Google begin? – Giant sea creatures invade Yahoo news – The absolute best use for an iPad – as the screen in an arcade cabinet – An…
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Mochi Game Development Fund Poll
Are you going to take advantage of the Mochi Game Development Fund? Voice your opinion in our poll.
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Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-Up: March 22, 2010
Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-Up: March 22, 2010 Fizzy.com and the Fizzy Game Developer Network The Fizzy.com GDN has new eCPM per play rates that have doubled in the recent weeks. The rate per play on a normal Flash game that you upload (with Mochi ads if you want them…
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Poll: How Long Should The Flash Gaming Summit Be Next Year?
I have to tell you, after going to FGS (Flash Gaming Summit) on Monday, the rest of the week has been a complete drag. I can’t “get over” meeting all the great, serious Flash Game Developers out there, and finding out how much we had in common. I know the…
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Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-up: March 9, 2010: Flash Gaming Summit Edition
Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-up: March 9, 2010: Flash Gaming Summit Edition The 2010 Flash Gaming Summit was a great day all around (with a few strange exceptions). Today’s mash-up will be based on things we saw and people we met during this long day Who we met: Untold Entertainment…
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Classic Gaming Expo Returns in 2010!
I’ve been “off” retro games for the past few months. I gave them up for lent (actually, I gave them up after some ex-classic gaming a-hole personality decided that the well received interview I did with him was not good enough for him). I still like making and playing “retro…
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Poll: Which Platform Have You Had The most “Success” Developing On?
Another Thursday Poll over at our Ning Community. Here is the question: Which Platform Have You Had The most “Success” Developing On? Tell us your answer!
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Video: An Adobe Employee (somewhat awkwardly) Discusses Flash/HTML 5/Apple with Mashable
In an interesting video with surprisingly “marble-mouthed” audio (rivaling only our own terrible productions) and very nervous looking participants, an Adobe employee discusses Apple/Flash/HTML 5/Mobile/etc. with Mashable.
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Flash Indie Game Interweb-Mash-Up: March 1, 2010
Flash Indie Game Interweb-Mash-Up: March 1, 2010 First off, Steve and I will be at the Flash Gaming Summit next Monday, so I hope to put a few faces to names, etc. Ning Community 8bitrocket is now part of the Ning community social platform. We did this to help create…
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Poll: How Irritated Are You Tech Pundits Who don’t Understand Flash?
Poll: Poll: How Irritated Are You Tech Pundits Who don’t Understand Flash? Here is a good example of a popular tech pundit who talks about Flash, but doesn’t seem to understand it. Bob Cringely, I guy I have respected and followed for more than decade, has weighed in on the Flash/HTML…
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Tell Us About Your Latest Flash Project
After you take the “Flash Development Tool Survey“, why don’t you tell us about your latest project? Yopu can do it all over here: http://8bitrocket.ning.com/forum/topics/what-is-your-newest-game
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Survey: What Are Your Preferred Flash Development Tools?
OK, now for our first survey.We’d like to know what your preferred tool set is for Flash development:Head on over to here to take the survey. (Is this a cheap tactic to try to get you to check out our new forums and social interaction features? Yeah, probably).
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Flash Inter-Web Mash-Up Feb 15, 2010: The Mail bag.
Flash Inter-Web Mash-Up Feb 15, 2010: The Mail bag. I have received an interesting array of emails over the last 2 weeks, some good, some bad, some CGA with speaker sound… (all of these are the good ones). Ace’s Retro Picks: First let’s take a look at some New Grounds…
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Matt Barton Interviews The Creator Of the Choose Your Own Adventure Series
Matt Barton, author of Dungeons And Desktops and co-author of Vintage Games has posted a very cool interview with one of my heroes, R.A. Montgomery, the creator of the classic 80’s “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series.
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PurpleFloyd’s HTML 5 Canvas Platform Game Running On An iPod Touch With Touch Controls
Purple Floyd just contacted us to tell us that he has created an iPod Touch/iPhone compatible version of his platform game. You can see it running in the video above. What does this mean? Well, it means that very soon developers can make games that are formatted to the iPod…
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8bitrocket Inter-Media Mash-Up: January 28, 2010
8bitrocket Inter-Media Mash-Up: January 28, 2010 Its no secret that I have had my head buried in the proverbial sand over the last month, slogging through page after page of revisions on the book we are writing. I have not had too much time to visit blogs and have not…
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Flash Indie Game Review Mash-up: January 19, 2010
Flash Indie Game Review Mash-up: January 19, 2010 I am going to “clear” out the notebook (so to speak) and review a list of games that people have sent me over the last few weeks. I have not had time to do reviews in that time, but I as encourage…
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Today Only: 100% Of Your Purchase At Popcap.com Goes To Haiti Relief
Today only, you can load-up on PopCap.com games (some of the best games ever made) and every penny you spend will go to the Haiti relief effort. If you have been waiting around to buy such games as Zuma, Book Worm Adventures, Heavy Weapon, Feeding Frenzy, Peggle or Bejewelled, today…
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Merry Retro Gaming Christmas Inter-web Mash-Up from 8bitrocket.com
Merry Retro Gaming Christmas Inter-web Mash-Up from 8bitrocket.com Here are some retro-gaming Christmas treats for your viewing / reading pleasure. First some Christmas related retro gaming commercials and then some retro gaming Christmas stories and finally a survey of some of the new Mochi Flash Christmas games I could find.…
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What Happened To Silverlight Games? (Or, Why Flash Is Still The Platform Of Choice For Web Games)
As you may recall, we started this year experimenting with technologies beyond Flash. First, we started to review iPhone games because, well, my wife got an iPhone Touch and I wanted to start looking at the games and explore the possibility of making them. Next, we looked into Microsoft Silverlight.…
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Mochi “Doofus” and “Talent” game reviews of the day: Dec 8, 2009
Mochi “Doofus” and “Talent” game reviews of the day: Dec 8, 2009 Today we are going to pick two Mochi games to review. One will be the “Talent” game. This game will be my favorite game of the day. The “Doofus” game of the day will be one that needs…
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GameSetWatch Tackles Indie And Fan Clone Games + What Do Gamers Think Of Microtransactions?
Sometime I feel like we are talking into thin air when we discuss intellectual property issues and indie/Flash games. It just seems like no one really cares, or just looks the other way. However, today GameSetWatch.com has a very interesting article that tackles this topic named Analysis: Clone Games &…
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Indie Flash Game Development Inter-Web Mash-up: November 12, 2009 (including Mochi Reviews)
Indie Flash Game Development Inter-Web Mash-up: November 12, 2009 (including Mochi Reviews) This week I have paid some extra attention to checking out the games by some of my favorite developers (Robot Jam, Long Animals, and Alillm). I also have a set of Mochi game reviews and a lot of…
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8bitrocket Flash Game Distribution Game Review Podcast 11/11/2009
In This podcast we review 8 games. We also learn how to use Chroma Key! (but we need to use it for something better). Also we have some more techincal problems (lighting?!?!?) but the games are pretty good this week, so who cares? Games Reviews This Week: Revert to Growth…
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Tutorial: Using The Open Source CamStudio to Record Flash Game Play Animations
We have found the need to take screen animations of our games lately, but were at a loss on how to do it cheaply and easily. That was until last week, when we found CamStudio, an Open Source utility for capturing video. CamStudio is a very interesting piece of software. …
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SFXR native in Mac OS and AS3!
SFXR native in Mac OS and AS3! I installed Windows 7 on my Bootcamp drive this last weekend. There were a few pitfalls, such as getting BlueTooth devices to work properly (black magic), but it was mostly painless. To start up work on the games book again, I needed to…
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Indie Flash Game Development Inter-Web Mash-up: November 3, 2009 (including Flash Game Distribution Reviews)
Indie Flash Game Development Inter-Web Mash-up: November 3, 2009 (including Flash Game Distribution Reviews) There is a lot of cool new stuff to cover, so with no further delay here is a survey of my favorite sites, games, and blogs. We start with some Flash Game Distribution reviews: Flash Game…
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Editorial: Two Big Kids On The Block In The Viral Flash World
When Jeff and I were little, we lived on a block with a lot of other kids. Of all those kids, there were two bigger ones that we tried to be friends with: Justin and Travis. Both had good qualities and bad ones too. Justin was a pretty nice guy,…
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Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-up (plus Mochi Game reviews): October 6, 2009
Flash Indie Game Interweb Mash-up (plus Mochi Game reviews): October 6, 2009 I have a lot of updates that I have been putting off, so I will try to quickly squeeze them in here today… Book Update: Working on a book is hard. No whining here, just a statement because…
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Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Arthropod Armada By Rocketslap
Mochi Game Of The Day Review: Arthropod Armada By Rocketslap Arthropod Armada is a very well done side scrolling blaster in the R-Type genre. Instead of a piloting a space ship an organic alien underworld, you are a flying bug soldier on a mission to defend your homeland from evil…
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Flash Game Development Interweb Mash-Up: Sept. 27, 2009
Flash Game Development Interweb Mash-Up: Sep. 27, 2009 It has been quite an interesting 3 weeks since the last mash-up. The new ‘day job’ web site launched after 9 months of corporate hand wringing, scope changes, and development disasters. It came out nicely, but is still keeping me slaving…
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Mochi Game of The Day (Sept 28, 2009) – Star Fish by Photonstorm
Mochi Game of The Day (Sept 28, 2009)- Star Fish by Photonstorm Star Fish made it to Mochi today. I saw a pre-release of this little gem a few weeks back and have been anticipating it’s release on Mochi. It is a high quality casual game that you would expect…
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Adobe MAX, L.A. Oct. 5-7
http://max.adobe.com/widget/MaxWidget.swf I just learned yesterday that I am going to Adobe MAX in L.A. in October. There are only a few sessions that I want to attend, so if anyone wants to meet and talk Flash, Games, Flash Games, or anything else, drop me a line. Unfortunately, as it stands…
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The Scariest/Best Flash Game Contest Ever : Revisited – UPDATED!
Almost 2 months ago we reported on what we thought might be the scariest/best Flash Game Contest ever created. The Stonking Great Game Contest From The Escapist Magazine: Well today we received an update about the contest. It seems that they have upped-the-ante a bit by adding a bunch of…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up : September 14, 2009 (9 new games reviewed)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up : September 14, 2009 (9 new games reviewed) First impression mini game reviews covering a variety of the latest Mochi games. The grading has been toughened up a bit because the quality of games has reached a new level in the last few months. I have…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-up:’Monday July 27, 2009
Mochi Game Review Mash-up: Monday July 27, 2009 Mochi "First Look" game reviews. Every day brings a new crop from the Mochi gods, let’s hope yours is there and its not crap. I have now added my own designation to each game as a FLASH game or a Game Made…
