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Ultimate Unscramble #2:Countries And Flags (2010)
The Ultimate Unscramble Series Continues! This time you must unscramble the names of countries. Be sure to use the Flags hints…
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Balloon Saw (Essential Flash Games book demo) (2010)
Game Demo From Essential Guide To Flash Games Book (2010)
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World’s Worst Jigsaw Puzzle Collection Launches
Today we announce the launch of a set of 20 games that took us less than 40 hours to complete: The…
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Blaster Mines
Survive each level by blasting all of the mines in the 360 degree scrolling sector. When your shield is depleted, your…
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Tutorial (AS3): Using Fonts Embedded At Compile-Time
Tutorial (AS3): Using Fonts Embedded At Compile-Time I am continuing to explore the use of external assets embedded at compile time…
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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…
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AS3 Tutorial: Controlling the Main Timeline of a SWF Embedded at Compile-Time
AS3 Tutorial: Controlling the Main Timeline of a SWF Embedded at Compile-Time Today I was working a a new piece of…
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GamesChart’s Barry White Responds (redux)
GamesChart’s Barry White Responds (redux) Last week I did a some coverage of GamesChart and it sparked a little controversy. It…
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I Just Want To Say This: I Love Flash!
I’ve been spending the last year or so looking and/or forced to develop in other technologies thatare not Flash. I’ve seen…
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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…
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New 8 Bit Weapon Sony Loop Library
New 8 Bit Weapon Sony Loop Library We make a lot of loop-based music here at 8bitrocket. One of our favorite…
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Ill Advised CIO Magazine Article Asks: “Is it Time for the Web to Abandon Flash?”
Ill Advised CIO Magazine Article Asks: “Is it Time for the Web to Abandon Flash?” Bad information can be annoying, but…
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Updated! GamesChart (Game Jacket Guys Get Back Into The System?) – Barry White Responds
Updated! – Barry White Responds. GamesChart (Game Jacket Guys Get Back Into The System?) Barry White left a message below with…
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Essential Flash Games Book: Flak Cannon Plus Game Play
Here is a short video of the “Plus” version of “Flak Cannon” from the “Essential Guide To Flah Games Book”. …
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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. …
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Apple/Adobe/HTML 5 Saga: Who Is Big Brother Now?
Apple/Adobe/HTML 5 Saga: Who Is Big Brother Now? Well, I never expected to be writing about HTML5 years before it will…
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Ultimate Unscramble #1: HTML Color Words (2010)
Learn arcane HTML coding as you play a mediocre word game! Swap letters to unscramble the words. Pay attention to the…
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8bitrocket Video Gripe-Cast: HTML 5, Flash and The iPhone/iPad
8bitrocket Video Gripe-Cast: HTML 5, Flash and The iPhone/iPad In this Podcast full of sour grapes and gripes, Steve and Jeff…
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Why Does Apple Hate Flash: The HTML 5 Canvas Might Be The Answer
Why Does Apple Hate Flash: The HTML 5 Canvas Might Be The Answer Many people on the web have been questioning…
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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…
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Tables Turned: One Of My Favorite Game Jounalists Interviews Me
Last week I spent over an hour talking with one of my favorite game journalists, Tom Chick, about one of my…
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Video: Mochi Media’s Jameson Hsu Answers Our Question About Shanda And Developer I.P.
<object name=movie width=425 height=344 > Millionaire Tycoon Jameson Hsu From Mochi Media removes his monacle for a bit to talk about…
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iPad Flash Support For Web Sites? Apples Fumbles This One Badly
So it looks like the new iPad, the one that apple claims is the “Best Way To Surf The Web”, does…
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Mochi Media Bought By (Alleged) Ex-Chinese Gold Farmers? (updated)
Update: Jameson Hsu of Mochi Media confirmed yesterday (1/27/2010) that Shanda does not intend to do anything with developer I.P. that would…
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Down The Road – Before The Corruption: An Overly Sentimental 40th Birthday 8mm Film Retrospective.
Down The Road – Before The Corruption: An Overly Sentimental 40th Birthday (today) 8mm Film Retrospective. This video includes 8mm film…
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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…
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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…
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Ever Wondered What Some “Reviewed” Book Pages Look Like? No? Too Bad.
Have you ever wondered what the pages of a book look like when they are in the middle of being reviewed…
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Flash Game Developer Jens Winterstein Digs Into Our Music Loops For “Running Blue”
We just recieved this nice email from Flash Game Developer Jens Winterstein. He recently dug into our library of free music…
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The office politik: Twilight v. The Atari 800
The office politik: Twilight v. The Atari 800 Ok, so I really want to write something about Flash games or indie…
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I Play/Read All This Stuff At Once???
I noticed yesterday that I have too many games being played and books being read at exactly the same time. All…
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R.I.P. Art Clokey: Creator of “Gumby” and “Davey And Goliath”
Art Clokey was one of the masters of “stop motion” animation. He is best known for the “Gumby” cartoons. Gumby :…
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Writing A Technical Book: The Stuff No One Tells You
We are finishing-up the final parts of the book “The Essential Guide To Flash Games“. The Amazon release date is wrong,…
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Flash Retro Game Inspirations: Atari 2600 Outlaw
Flash Retro Game Inspirations: Atari 2600 Outlaw (Atari 2600 Outlaw in the great Stella Emulator) I literally have an entire pile…
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Tunnel Panic
Tunnel Panic is very simple game. As your ship flies through the retro, 8-bit tunnel, simply press the space bar to…
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My Interview with Arnie Katz (Co-Founder Of Electronic Games magazine) Up At Gamastra
My interview with Arnie Katz is now up at Gamasutra. If you don’t know who Arnie Katz might be, here is…
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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…
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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,…
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8bitrocket’s Five Favorite Retro Inspired Flash Games of 2009 Podcast
8bitrocket’s Five Favorite Retro Inspired Flash Games of 2009 Podcast We’ve featured and reviewed many games this year. Over the next…
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Planet M.U.L.E First Impressions
Our first impressions of the Planet M.U.L.E, the online playable 2009 update to Dan Bunten’s classic Atari 800 game, M.U.L.E. http://www.planetmule.com…
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.+.palindromes.+. plus
Unscramble The Palindromes…Plus! Now with more palindromes, including palindrome phrases and better re-play features.
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idkwid.com “Flying Blind” video tutorial…
A simple tutorial for playing IDKWID.com’s game “Flying Blind”. (http://www.idkwid.com)
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Flash Game Blog Interweb Mash-up Video Podcast Dec 12, 2009
Flash Game Blog Interweb Mash-up Video Podcast Dec 12, 2009 I decided to have a go at doing a Mash-up as…
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8bitrocket.com IDKWID.com Mochi Game Review blowout!
Today we cover our new favroite Flash Game developer, idkwid.com. I believe idkwid stands for “I Don’t Know What I’m…
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8bitrocket Reports On the Mochimedia 2009 Survey Results + IKDWID.com Preview
We report on the Mochimedia.com Flash Games Market Survey.
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Mochi Flash Game Review 12/10/2009
5 More games Mochi games reviewed: Bloons Tower Defense Baby’s Christmas coloring 8bit Little Killer Disney Puzzle 3 in 1 Dark…
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Mochi Flash Game Reviews 12/9/09
Mochi Flash Game Reviews: This time we have a new style where the games are highlighted only with voice overs. We…
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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…
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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…
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The greatest song ever written? Code Monkey By Jonathan Coulton
Code Monkey – Jonathan Coulton I’m not sure what else to say. I’ve listened 10 times in a row…
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Retro Game Insipration Podcast #1 : Atari 7800 Food Fight
Retro Game Insipration Podcast #1 : Atari 7800 Food Fight I am planning to make a new “re-skinnable” game engine based…
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AS2->AS3: Making A Click And Stick Christmas Tree Designer In AS2 and AS3
In my last tutorial I focused on the differences in managing the mouse in AS2 and AS3 and how to create…
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AS2->AS3: A Simple Drag And Drop Game plus Hiding/Showing/Changing The Mouse Pointer
One of the things designers love to do in the Flash IDE is change the mouse pointer. This was a pretty…
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Essential Flash Games Book Chapter 12: A Viral Game In A Day
Essential Flash Games Book Chapter 12: A Viral Game In A Day I know a lot of people do it, but…
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8bitrocket Game Review-Cast : Nov 20, 2009. Flash Game License and Mochi Reviews
8bitrocket Game Review-Cast : Nov 20, 2009. Flash Game License and Mochi Reviews Flash Game License Games: You must have the…
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…palindromes… (2009)
unscramble the palindromes. click any two letter tiles to swap positions. each level contains up to six words. you have 30…
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Essential Flash Games Book, Chapter 11 – An Optimized Scrolling Blaster
Essential Flash Games Book, Chapter 11 – An Optimized Scrolling Blaster Chapter 11 is by far the longest chapter in the…
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Bruce On Games: You don’t want to work in the video game industry
This is great! The same Bruce who is fighing off a libel lawsuit aginast makers of Evony (read: Bruce appears to…
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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…
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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…
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Optimized Game Timer Loop Update #2
Optimized Game Timer Loop Update #2 Ok, so I spent the weekend (well the free-time part anyway), looking at the timer…
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8bitrocket Mochi Game Review Video Pocast: 11/06/09
8bitrocket Mochi Game Review Pocast: 11/06/09 We review about 8 games, and Steve touches his hair far too often, as…
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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…
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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…
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8bitrocket.com Games Demo Reel: 70 games in 3.5 minutes.
After making the last video podcast, the most enjoyable part turned out to be capturing video of some of our games.…
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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…
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8bitrocket.com Video Podcast-Essential Flash Game Book Games Preview
8bitrocket.com Video Podcast-Halloween Edition. In this edition we preview the games from our forth coming Flash game development book, Essential Flash…
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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,…
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A Youth Well Wasted: Lee Bradly Bogs His Youth In Video Games
UK game journalist Lee Bradly has been writing an on-going blog chronicling his youth playing video games. His series, A Youth…
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Kill Screen: A Video Game Magazine That Aims For The Mature Mind
If you are like us, you constantly lament the demise of great game magazines like Electronic Games and Next Generation. Those…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: October 26, 2009 (10 new games reviewed)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: October 26, 2009 (10 new games reviewed) Games Reviewed: Street Fighter 2: CE, GraveShift 2: The Sewers,…
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Essential Guite To Flash Games Book: Pre-Order
This has been up for a couple weeks but were waiting some confirmations to post it. You can now pre-order the…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up October 20, 2009 (11 new games reviewed)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up October 20, 2009 (11 new games reviewed) I wanted to do a full blog and site mash-up…
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Essential Flash Games Book Ch.9: Dice Battle! A.I.Battle Puzzle Game.
Here is an alpha sample screen of the game “Dice Battle” from the “Essential Flash Games” book. This game builds upon…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up : Oct 14th, 2009 (Games where things shoot at other things day)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up : Oct 14th, 2009 (Games where things shoot at other things day) These were always my favorite…
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Essential Guide To Flash Games Book: Chapter 10: A tile-based scrolling driving game
Essential Guide To Flash Games Book: Chapter 10: A tile-based scrolling driving game I put the finishing touches on the game…
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Jeff Minter’s Grid Runner Revolution PC Review
If 8bitrocket.com had it’s very own “Mt. Rushmore” containing the faces of four video games designer/developers who have influenced us the…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: October 7, 2009 (11 Games Reviewed)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: October 7, 2009 (11 Games Reviewed) Today the game selection kind of made me feel like I…
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Adobe Max Report #2: Adobe Takes On Mochi With their Own Game Distribution, Ad Serving, and Monetization (updated)
Ok, Adobe Max day #1 was even better than Day #1. Here is a run-down. Adobe Distribution First off, we were…
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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…
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Adobe Max Report Day #1
OK, so here are my notes from Adobe Max Day #1: 1. Biggest News: Flash On The iPhone. This does not…
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Game Macropayments: A Developer Subscription Model?
I was thinking about this on the way home yesterday, and I thought I would run it up the old 8bitrocket.com…
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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…
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Essential Guide To Flash Games Book: Recursive Function Puzzle Game.
I just finished this last night, so I’m a bit excited about it (or is that exhausted)? Anyway, I wanted to…
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Essential Guide To Flash Games Book: Chapters 4 , 5: Flack Cannon
Here is another short preview of our book The Essential Guide To Flash Games from Friends Of Ed. The first real…
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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…
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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.…
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Essential Flash Games Book #2 (chapters 6 and 7)
Essential Flash Games Book #2 (chapters 6 and 7) I have just completed (finally) chapters 6 and 7 of our upcoming…
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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…
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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…
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Email Of The Month
We get all sorts of email requests here. Most of them are from reasonable people who need help or ask questions. …
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Mochi Game Video Reviewcast #1!!
Reviewcast! We review a bunch of the latest Mochi games and you get to see them in action! (kind of) OK,…
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Essential Flash Games: The Book #1
Essential Flash Games: The Book #1 One reason that there have been fewer tutorials, mash-ups, reviews, etc on the last few…
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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…
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The Dark Spire: Super-Old School 8-bit computer RPG on the DS: A Perfect Flash Game Candidate?
When people talk about “old school” role playing games these days, they are usually referring to Final Fantasy or Dragonquest or…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
