By Jeff Fulton Star Castle was one of thee very first arcade games that Steve and I (along with Eric Barth) became addicted to in the early 1980’s. There was a simplicity to the design and the objective that made it as addicting as any other game made in the…

By Steve Fulton Atari announced the semifinalists for their Pong Developer Challenge today, and Producto/8bitrocket Studios made the cut!   Now we have to actually make the game we designed.   I can’t wait to get started!

According to Pocket Gamer, Atari is overwhelmed with entries (87 in all) so they are delaying the announcement of the semi-finalists until May 1st.   This gives me an extra week to formulate bizarre Atari dreams and worry myself sick before we hear the news.   With 87 ideas floating…

Tomorrow, Atari announces the semi-finalists in their Pong Developer Challenge.   I had planned to create a demo for the contest, but instead, got sucked into writing a design document that took me the better part of a week, and the demo never materialized.  I felt really good about it,…

I just found  out about this today: Lost Cast: HTML5 Game Development Podcast from the guys over at Lost Decade Games.   They have been creating podcasts since last November, and so far they are really good!  You should go check them out.

By Steve Fulton In 1982, during the halcyon days of the original Atari, Bob Stein worked with pioneering computer scientist Alan Kaye in the Atari Advanced Research Labs.    One of their projects was to imagine the future of encyclopedias.    In a set of incredible images from 30 years…

I worked all weekend on our submission for the Atari Pong Developer Challenge, and just submitted it a few minutes ago  Even though there were complaints  from some people about the terms and conditions for the contest, ultimately we decided it would be a fun and challenging project to tackle.…

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By Jeff Fulton   Our HTML5 Game Development Poll Results are in!  With had a huge response, so thank you very much.  The poll confirms to us that more and more new developers are planning to use HTML5 this year and that the HTML5 Canvas and related technologies are the…

ASV Interwebs, Go! (I’m already starting to see why you stopped doing this every week) Abobo – http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587787 – A gargantuan NES tribute parody with classic NewGroundsian sarcasm, hyperbole and violence. Abobo is supposedly an NES character who was never allowed to exist because he was too violent and ridiculous.…

By Steve Fulton We found out about Grant Skinner’s CreateJS project a few weeks ago, and were instantly excited to start writing about it for the second edition of  HTML5 Canvas.      The libraries he is helping to create will go a long way to help make Canvas development…

Coming on the heels of Adobe’s Premium Features for Flash (developers will be required to pay Adobe 9% of revenue above $50,000 if they use certain high-tech features), comes a new, upcoming feature for Adobe flash CS6.0 : Metered Usage For ActionScript. Announced today, Adobe will start charging developers per…

Google’s April Fools “joke” this year is an 8-bit looking map style for Google Maps.    Not only does it look great, but I could so easily see myself traveling around on these things, killing monsters on my quest to be the Avatar.  In fact, Google should hire Lord British…

I have been meaning to start these up again and cover the world of games, retro, etc, but time has not been on my side. Ace SV is filling the gap though and sent this over today. Dragon Age – but in Flash with hexagons. If you’ve played or seen…

By Steve Fulton Adobe announced yesterday a set of “Premium Features” for Flash.  These are features that, when used for web games, will require a license fee after a certain threshold of revenue  has been reached (currently $50K)  After that, they want their “tribute” in the form of a slice…

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    Last year when I was doing Facebook game development (and hating life) for a large, monstrous gaming company, we had a lot of trouble getting the Firefox Flash plug-in for FireBug to work correctly and show internal trace’s exceptions, etc. So, I never used it. This last Friday,…

Another day, and another encouraging sign of things getting back on track. Ace The Super Villain , One of our best and longest running readers has just finished a new game named “FireArm”, an impressive beat-em-up style game in Flash.     You Can see it below. [iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/R1eotggajX8″…

We were just sent a link to this from our friends over at Sokay.net (Chris Rock and Bryson Whiteman)!   Rush Hour Plus is a classic, pixelated shooter with power-ups and insane blasting action.   The game made me happy today, which is no mean feat.   Click below to play:…

By Jeff Fulton Pro Flash game development veteran Richard Davey has a great article named “The Reality of HTML5 Game Development and making money from it” that you NEED to read right now.  It’s an awesome overview of the an industry that is blowing up right now written by a…

By Jeff Fulton  Ansca Corona For Cross-platform development At Producto Studios, we have just finished a large 5 month cross-platform (iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android Tablet) project using Ansca Corona as the API and tool kit. Corona is not a drag and drop style app builder, but a robust, subscription-based API…