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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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