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8bitocket Diatribe July 8, 2008
iWoz never an Apple Fanboy Back in the 80’s I was an Atari fan boy. The 2600 was the first video…
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Dispatches From A Transient Programmer #1: The Move
I believe that crime stories in the local newspaper are written in way to make the reader feel more comfortable about…
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Free Flash 4th Of July Interactive Fireworks Show
This is just a quick reminder to say that you can enjoy our Free Fireworks Flash interactive Fireworks show on the 4th…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web Mash-up: July 3, 2008
This one is more MASHY than usual. Along with the regular Flash only focused material, this week I decided to concentrate…
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Tutorial: AS3. The basics of tile sheet animation (or blitting).
In this article we will discuss the anatomy of a basic AS3 Flash blit operation, which is useful for rendering game…
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Doublestuff! 8bitrocket.com Mid-Year Stats Report
Back in December we looked at our 2007 stats. We had just reached our first milestone by getting an Alexa.com ranking…
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8bitrocket Diatribe June 20, 2008
The World of 8bitrocket Things have been busy here at 8bitrocket towers. Steve is moving to a new house and I…
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Designing Arcade Game Graphics – A free book!
I have been researching and writing a few new basic tutorials on using blitting for arcade games. In my search for…
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Management Sucks Finally Finds A Suitable Game!!
Finally, a game about work. I’ve been looking for a good Flash game to launch the Management Sucks game repository for…
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Atari Movie Report: June 25 2008
Today we start a regular column reporting all the news we can find about the upcoming Atari movie. Today we have…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : June 24, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This week we take a look at new…
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8bitrocket Diatribe June 23, 2008
Another Two Gone It seems that corporate America and creative talent just don’t seem to mix very well these days. Steve…
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Home Computer Wars Alpha Mission: Post Mortem for a Failed Viral Flash Game
For many years I’ve wanted to make a game set in the 80’s that literally had Atari fighting against it’s competitors…
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Flash Retro Game Showcase #6: June 19, 2008
A depressing week as far as “new” retro inspired games go. It is getting more and more difficult each week to…
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Atari Nerd Chronicles: Kenny Brown and The Atari 400
When Kenny Brown moved to Manhattan Beach in 1980 from Philadelphia PA and started 5th grade in my class with Ms.…
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John Harris Asks: Where Are The Atari Fan boys?
John Harris over at Gamasutra.com has a fantastic new artical named “Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games” in which he spends…
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Fresh Kill Five: June 16, 2008. A biased pick of fun new Flash Games
This week we once again visit Agame.com and Mochiads to find games that we love to play. Our choices: Captain Zorro,…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : Jun. 17, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This week we take a look at the…
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Flash Retro Game Showcase #5: June 12, 2008
OK, we are back. Sorry we missed you last week, but we were having trouble with our main source of games.…
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J2Games.com And The Return Of Bill Kunkel, The Game Doctor
Bill Kunkel, the pioneering video game journalist who’s alter ego “The Game Doctor” appeared in the original Electronic Games magazine from…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: June 9, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This week we take a look at some…
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8bitrocket Diatribe June 9, 2008
Wii Fit Kicks My Ass! No Joke, I’ve been an avid runner and workout nut for years now, and I have…
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Site Down (Again)
The site was completely down yesterday (yet again). The server had a blown raid drive and the hosting company, while working…
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Review: Commadork and The Hidden Collective Experience of 80’s Vintage Computing
80’s Home Computers: The Hidden Collective Experience The world is awash with collective experiences into the 21st century. In fact, it’s…
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Commadork and The Hidden Collective Experience of 80’s Vintage Computing
80’s Home Computers: The Hidden Collective Experience The world is awash with collective experiences into the 21st century. In fact, it’s…
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8bitrocket Diatribe: June 5, 2008
Some New Game Development Steve and I have both started some new personal games. Mine is going to be a Galaga…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: June 2,2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. In Adopt Some Coding Conventions for Projects: Sloppy…
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GameStorm (2008) Retro-Casual Game Idea Generator
Never Again Can You Say You Don’t Have An Idea For a Game! This is not that game, but a tool…
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Our Latest Goes Live
A new game of ours, sponsored by Addicting Games, has gone live this morning. It is called Bratney Escape the Madness.…
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Scotty Dawg Flash Blog Launches
One of the best Flash developers in the world, Scott Delamater has finally launched his own Flash related development blog, Le…
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Flash Retro Game Showcase #4: May 29, 2008
This week we cover 4 different retro-style Flash games in four completely different styles. All four styles happen to be some…
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Ultimate Checkers Launches, Uses Our Free Fireworks Engine
Ultimate Checkers, a free online, single and multi-player Checkers game with great A.I, leaderboards, bonuses, etc. has launched using our Free…
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8bitrocket Diatribe May 28, 2008
USA v. EnglandI watch all of these USA players every chance I get: in MLS, foreign league games, friendlies, etc and…
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Fresh Kill Five: May 26, 2008 An 8bitrocket Biased Selection of Fun New Flash Games
This week we visit Agame.com, and Ugoplayer.com to find 5 new releases that we love to play: Alien Slayer 3D, Galaktoid,…
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Retro Gaming in Mac OS X 10.5 #1 : Atari Games
I have recently switched from Windows XP to MAC OS X 10.5 and one of the things I feared upon switching…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : May. 26, 2008
news.as3gaming.com is doing an excellent job of culling together blogs and resources on Flash gaming, AS3, etc every day. Add it…
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Tutorial: AS3 Basics – How to use library sounds in AS3
Now this one sounds like a no-brainer, but for some reason almost every book written on AS3 and even the built-in…
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8bitrocket Diatribe: May 21, 2008
I am just now putting the finishing touches on a custom game for a portal. I’m very happy with the results.…
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Flash Retro Game Showcase #3: May 22, 2008
This week we micro-review 5 more retro inspired games for your playing pleasure. We are starting to see some distinct genres…
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Has the age of free, hosted, multi-player Flash game servers arrived?
There are two services on the horizon for Flash game developers that could be complete game-changers for the viral Flash game…
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‘Game Over’ For All-Encompassing Video Game History Books?
A few years back, when Steven L. Kent published the bible of video game related history books, The First Quarter, bedroom…
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Flash Player Beta 10…looks like it will kick some ASTRO!
I’ve been digging through the release notes and other various sources on the new Flash Player 10 Beta (code name Astro),…
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Bob Cringely Discovers The Major Flaw Of I.T. In the 21st Century
I like Bob Cringely, but in recent years he has rarely written about anything that I can relate to. However, his…
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Fresh Kill Five: May 18, 2008 8bitrocket’s Biased Pick of New Flash Games
This week we visit Addicting Games, and find 5 new releases that we love to play. It’s like shooting fish in…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : May. 17, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Game Poetry comes through yet again with an…
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Bill Kunkel (Electronic Games) Interview
Electronic Games Magazine truly was revolutionary. It was the first of it’s kind: a monthly publication dedicated to video games and…
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Bratney Escape the Madness
You are Bratney, a spoiled party-girl ex-star, with 2 babies, an annoying ex-husband, and a gang of paparazzi chasing you down…
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Flash Retro Game Showcase #2: May 15, 2008
Here are our Flash retro game finds for the week. We have settled down to five games per episode, and that…
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8bitrocket diatribe 5/13/2008
There haven’t been any tutorials, retro articles, mash-ups or the like for a fews days because we are busy working on…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : May. 10, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. I missed this one a couple weeks ago,…
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Retro Flash Game Highlights: May 9th 2008
Retro Flash Game Highlights: May 9th 2008 Here are 8bitrocket.com we have decided to start posting a weekly set of the…
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So you are looking for a game idea are you? Try Atariage.com.
There are millions of games out there (there is even a site with that name), but original game ideas are few…
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Site Updates: Free Music and Retro Games!
We have been working over the past few weeks to figure out what the future-state will be for http://www.8bitrocket.com. We have…
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Fresh Kill Five: May 2, 2008. An 8bitrocket Biased Selection of Fun New Flash Games
This week we visit Kongregate, and find 5 new releases that we love to play. I don’t just look at the…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : May 2, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Panyoti at Game Poetry comes through with a…
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Chris Crawford Re-Making Balance Of Power For Storytron
The Chris Crawford spearheaded “Interactive Storytelling” authoring/publishing/playing toolset, Storytron is nearing completion. The new Storytron.com web site launched a few days…
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Did Atari Make A Version Of “Missile Command” For The Military?
I’ve been furiously working on the follow-up to my History Of Atari :Part 1 for Gamasutra (it’s been so long since…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : April. 24, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. This week we cover game loops, a cool…
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Something Missing In Wisconsin (Update)
OK, so I actually found a place that has “Health Guards” (Protectos, ass gaskets) in Wisconsin. However, I’m pretty sure they…
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Tutorial: Preloading Actionscript 3 (AS3) Games in Flash CS3
This sounds like a rather simple topic. If you have a game application where you can load all of you assets…
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Something Missing In Wisconsin
I’m out of town this week in Wisconsin at a web conferenceand I’ve noticied one glaring omission from every rest room…
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Forgotten Heroes From The Teflon Decade: 80’s Metal / Rock / Alt / Country : The Punk – Grudge bridge
I am just now finishing my fourth Chuck Klosterman book. On the subject of music, he is an absolute genius. While…
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80′s Rock Heros Find A Place For Their Music: Mike Peters , Mitch Easter (Interview)
With record companies falling apart at the seams, and CD sales in the toilet you would think that 80’s Guitar artists…
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Need the missing AS3 UI Components?
Our good friends at Yahoo have a treasure trove of great AS3 UI components (most of them not found in the…
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Sometimes You Can’t Take Full Credit.
Sometimes you just don’t get to make the game yourself, but you are significantly involved with it enough to get some…
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Best Of Mochi Retro Games: Fluxion
Best Of Mochi Retro Games: Fluxion http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/fluxion/Fluxion.swf A Great Retro Inspired Game Sponsored By Mochi Ads Instructions: Use the mouse to…
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Best of Mochi retro Games: Space Invaders Defence
Best of Mochi Retro Games: Space Invaders Defense http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/space-invaders-defence/space%20invaders%20defence.swf A Great Retro Inspired Game Sponsored By Mochi Ads Instructions: A &…
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80’s Guitar Rock: The Alarm: UCLA Spirit Of ’86 Celebration Report
Mike Peters of The Alarm returned to UCLA on April 12, 2008 after 22 years to celebrate The Alarm’s historic show…
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80’s Guitar Rock: What Makes A Cultural “Decade”?
I’ve had this conversation periodically with friends and other nerds of all types (rock, video game, etc) and it always ends…
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Forgotten Heroes From The Teflon Decade: 80’s Guitar Rock:
Welcome to our newest blog on our ever-expanding uber media-empire known as 8bitrocket.com. Since much of our “game” sensibility comes from…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : April 11, 2008
Interactive Crap, Nate (fellow Flash game head, and 8bitrocket friend) has a new series of posts on different rendering tests in…
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www.devmaster.net – A great game development resource.
I don’t know the people who run this site, they aren’t paying me anything to pimp them, but if you have…
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Tutorial : Creating an Optimized AS3 Game Timer Loop
Tutorial : Creating an Optimized AS3 Game Timer Loop It this tutorial we create what I consider to be my most…
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Moving From Flash AS2 To Flash AS3: flashvars
Note: I’m converting my Flash game “Spin City” from AS2 to AS3 so it can be re-skinned for another project. I’ve…
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Mission Zeno Fighter Chronicles #1
I have started to make a new game, currently called Mission Zeno Fighter. It is going to be a combination of…
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 for the Wii
Soccer video games have not changed very much since the the first 3D version of FIFA appeared on the 3DO almost…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : Mar. 30, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Forrest’s AS3 / Flash Blog has an entry…
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Flash Retro Remake Round Up : March 27, 2008
This is by no means an exhaustive survey of the universe of retro Flash games available on the infobaun, but here…
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Midcoregamer.com Midcore RSS Aggregation Features
Midcoregamer.com has been scouring the web for the past few weeks to locate blogs that are relevant to the Midcore audience. …
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Tutorial: Using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3 to create Atari 7800 Asteroids Part 4
Tutorial: Using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3 to create Atari 7800 Asteroids Part 4 In this 4th and final part we…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : Mar. 20, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Mochiland and James Robinson bring you an absolutely…
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Flash Game Design Kitchen Nightmares
Flash Game Design Kitchen Nightmares I’ve been watching a lot of the BBC America (plus the sub-par USA Fox version) of…
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Site Down This Morning
We’re not sure why, but the site has been down all morning. The hosting company was finally able to fix it,…
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Mission Leprechaun
Gourdon Gruesome needs money. His untimely defeat at the hands of Pumpkin Man has left him broke and without minions to…
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The Mission Leprechaun Chronicles II
I did get one pretty good exclusive offer, but I have re-thought my need to sell off my IP and have…
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Review: Pinball Hall Of Fame:Williams Collection for the Wii
A week or so back I wrote a pissed-off blog entry about how it was to find Pinball Hall Of Fame…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : Mar. 14, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Michael Baczynski, on his blog at http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/, has…
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The Mission Leprechaun Chronicles
After I completed my last game, Pumpkin Man, I decided I would not put it up for Exclusive License, but use…
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Adding MochiAds, MochiBot and MochiAds Leaderboards To A Flash AS2 Game
My Newest Flash game lesson is up over at Mochiland . This lesson details how to add Mochibot, Mochiads, and Mochi Leaderboards…
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Where the @#$! Is Pinball Hall Of Fame, Williams Collection?
I’m a pinball fan. there, I’ve said. I love playing actual pinball tables, and I love playing simulated pinball on computers…
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Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up : Mar. 3, 2008
The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game developers. Mochiland, always a great place for the Flash…
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Pumpkin Man
Princess Pumpkin has been kidnapped by the evil Gordon Gruesome. He has hidden her 30 levels deep in his hideout. As…
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8bitrocket Pumpkinman goes gold!
I am proud to announce the release of 8bitrocket Pumpkinman! From the insane minds that brought the web Retroblaster, Space Eggs,…
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Destructoid: The Myth Of Casual Gaming = Midcore?
Jim Sterling over at Destructoid has written a very insightful blog about The Myth Of Casual Gaming . Jim writes: The truth…
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8bitrocket.com Home Computer Wars: Alpha Mission Launches
Home Computer Wars: Alpha Mission is part 1 of a game that started as a series of lessons for Mochiland.com to…
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Mid-Core Gamer Spreads Across The Web
As the usage of the term “Mid-core Gamer” continues to spread across the web, we will periodically update you on its…
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Flash Game Inter-web Mash-Up: Feb. 21, 2008
Blogs and other cool stuff that might interest the Flash game developer. Funface Games has an absolutely outstanding article on how…
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8bitrocket.com Blog Comments Engine (Beta)
So, if you didn’t know, we at 8bitrocket.com are very stubborn. When we started this site we wanted to write all…
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What is that annoying AS3 Hiccup? Part 2
Well, I initiated my buddy Chris Cutler to help me out today and discovered a couple things about optimizing AS3 apps,…
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What is that annoying AS3 Hiccup?
I’m feverishly putting the finishing touches on a game I have been building off and on, in my spare time, for…
