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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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The Essential Guide To Flash Games Conspiracy?
Over at GamingYouWay.com, they might have found some sort of odd conspiracy from the pages of the Essential Guide To Flash Games Book, and all over the web. Here is a quote:
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Reviews Section
This is the new “reviews” section that collects all of our reviews together!
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8bitrocket Discovers WordPress! Move Will Occur Within The Next 2 Weeks
We have decided to move 8bitrocket.com to Word Press. We have experimented with it in the past couple days, and it appears that it will help us solve a lot of problems (and of course, add new ones). We are moving all the content right now, creating 303 redirects, and…
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Flash Not Even Close To Dead: 5 Reasons Why Flash Still Lives At The Top And May Never Be Defeated
5 Good reasons why Flash is here to stay (and most involve Google). 1. YouTube.com : Even though youtube.com added some HTML 5 video support, it’s still Flash that makes youtube.com tick. Embedding, full-screen video, standard codecs, interactive elements, variable streams, protected streams, HTTP streaming, web cam and microphone support,…
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Flash/Adobe/HTML5/Apple Wars Bring Opportunity To Developers: 721% Rise In HTML5 Job Postings
The Apple/Flash wars have had a nice side-affect for freelance job seekers: Opportunity. According to freelancer.com, there was a 721% rise in HTML5 related job posting in Q2 2010. This made HTML5 the #2 ranked technology in the “Freelancer.com Fast 50”. Here is a quote from Freelancer.com: “The Apple Effect:…
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What Does A $49.99 Safe And Sane Firework Look Like?
I bought a single firework this year for $49.99. Ever wonder what one of those looks like when fired? Here is your chance to *not* spend $49.99 next year. To be honest, this was far better than all the other fireworks we bought, combined (most lasted less than 10 seconds)…but…
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The Day The Soccer Peaked: Landon Donovan Penatly Kick Goal Vs. Ghana 2010 World Cup
This video I took at the Arcata Theater in Arcata CA, the home of Humbolt State. It’s a small town in Northern, CA. We were on vacation , and this theater was showing the USA vs. Ghana game. There were about 300 people there. Arcata is about 250 miles north…
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Customizable Full-Screen Flash Fireworks Show
Here is a link to our customizable, Flash Fireworks show. This is a link to the .swf so you can view it in full-screen mode. Enjoy!
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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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Vacation Game Storm #2: Frog BBQ
Note: I’ve always felt that the best time for me to come-up with new ideas for games is when I’m on vacation. I recently went on vacation with my family. These are some of the game design notes I took. We arrived at our cabin in Redwoods National Park late…
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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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Atari 7800 Retro Inspection In Retro Gamer Magazine #78
Atari 7800 Retro Inspection In Retro Gamer Magazine #78 My favorite Atari console of all time is the Atari 7800. It could play 99% of the Atari 2600 games and it had very nice versions of some of my favorite arcade games (Food Fight, Galaga, Pole Position 2, Joust, etc).…
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Vacation Game Storm #1: Free Budget Breakfast Buffet
Note: I’ve always felt that the best time for me to come-up with new ideas for games is when I’m on vacation. I recently went on vacation with my family. These are some of the game design notes I took. On our first night of the trip we stayed at…
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8bitrocket.com Declares Today As Landon Donovan Day!
Let July 23rd, 2010 forever be known as Landon Donovan Day!
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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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8bitrocket.com: The End Is Nye? We Need Ideas On Where To Move.
Today our hosting company emailed us to tell that our site uses too many resources. They want to move us to a much more expensive plan. One that simply does not justify the cost. We have collected almost 1000 stories and tutorials in the past 4 years, plus almost 100…
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8bitrocket.com @ E3 Report #1 : Lucha Libre Fight While The Game Industry Dies (updated)
So we went to E3 today, and we saw few things worth mentioning (which we might cover later), however, our general impressions can be summed up with this story from Cracked.com: The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010 by David Wong We saw one GREAT thing while…
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8bitrocket.com @ E3 2010
We are attending E3 2010 this year. We hope to bring you back all the “news” of stuff on display for Flash, Web, Viral, Retro, Mobile, Indie game developers. However, we assume, just like last year, the entire show will ignore this part of the game industry. If we can…
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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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USA v. England : A No Win Situation For 8bitrocket.com
Today the USA plays against England in their first game of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Whenever the USA plays England, it becomes an uncomfortable situation for 8bitrocket.com. We have many friends who live all over the world, and usually we get along famously. However, when we play each other…
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Review: New Star Games Sensational World Soccer 2010
Wanna play some digital footie? Synopsis:Sensational World Of Soccer 2010 Review.Are you a USA fan who wants to replay the England match and try to put more goals by the hapless Robert Green? Are you an England fan who desires the opportunity to massacre a virtual Tim Howard? Are you…
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You too can “Hack the Pac”. A guide to hacking the Google Pac-man Doodle
A month or so back Google celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary by replacing the Google Doodle with a playable version of Pac-Man. (click the image to play it in its new Google home) Retrogaming Monthly has a nicely written article on how to create your own version of the doodle by…
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Huw Collingbourne Of bitwise Magazine Really Likes The Essential Guide To Flash Games
Huw Collingbourne Of bitwise Magazine just posted his review of The Essential Guide To Flash Games. He really liked it! Here is my favorite quote: “What a great book this is! Don’t be deceived into thinking that, since it is a book about games programming, it must necessarily be trivial.…
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Yes, We Still Work On Flash Games: Introducing Zombie Alien Zero Flak Defender!
With all of this talk of HTML 5, I wanted to show some on-going progress on an AS3 game that I’m working on. Yes, it is an iteration on one of the games from The Essential Guide To Flash Games, and yes it will be used to promote the book,…
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Nomen Ludi: Awesome Short Story About The Quest To Finish An 8-bit Computer Game
I was directed to the story Nomen Ludi By Rob Beschizz, a fictional short story about the quest and the meaning of trying to finish an 8-bit computer game. Lost of great turns an imagery in this one, and also some really cool 8-bit game screens. Read it here.
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Can I survive HTML5? Yes, and so can you
Can I survive HTML5? Yes, and so can you. It took me a few months to finally crack open the beast, but while on a little holiday vacation in California Wine country, I finally took the leap. Steve has been dabbling in HTML 5 for the last couple months but…
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John Russell Fulton: Isn’t Artistic Talent Supposed To Jump A Generation?
I can’t draw to save my life. Neither can Jeff. While be both can do a bit of “abstract” work practical art has pretty much escaped us. However the rest of our family has all kinds of talent in spades. The most “famous” artist in our family is John Russell…
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R.I.P. Gary Coleman And 80’s Portrayals Of Video Games
Gary Coleman died yesterday at the age of 42. He was best known from his role on the TV show “Different Strokes”. It was sad to see him go, as he never really appeared to achieve that he set out to do in life. It is interesting to note that …
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Is The HTML 5 Canvas A Gateway Drug For Flash?
When I was 13 years old I wanted an Atari 800 computer. I wanted it to play all the great computer games I saw on the shelves at the local computer store, HW Computers, and because it came with the BASIC programming language. Not only could you play games, but…
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Game Design Inspirations: Some childhood 70’s non-electronic games and books
Game Design Inspirations: Some childhood 70’s non-electronic games and books Growing up in the 70’s Steve and I didn’t always have access to electronic and video games. It was 1981 before we had our first 2600, and before that we had but a smattering of hand-held electronic games that failed…
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Would A Basic Book on HTML 5 Canvas Games Interest You?
While we are in early talks with some publishers about a book on building games the HTML 5 Canvas, I’d like to know: Would this interest you? Unlike “The Essential Guide To Flash Games”, this book would take a more ground-up approach, and include all the information you need to…
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Geometry Attack: First Found Game Made From The Essential Guide To Flash Games Book?
Yesterday we were alerted to this game, Geometry Attack. It appears to be the first game made from the games from our book: The Essential Guide To Flash Games. However, this is not a complaint. The whole point of the book is to get people to make games. We want…
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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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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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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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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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