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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 : The Small Planets There were a few episodes the dealt with space. This one stands out as the best….and most bizarre. “My beautiful arpeggio ruined!” Art Clokey was…
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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, as the whole process is about a month behind. We are sorry for anyone who expected to get this thing next week, but honestly, (HONESTLY), the book is much…
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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 of started, but unfinished retro games sitting in folders on my development machine. I start and never finish at least 10-15 games a year based on some whim, (examples:…
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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 move it up. Dodge everything and stay alive for as long as you can. You get more points the longer you make it through the tunnel.
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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 the intro I wrote for the interview: Arnie Katz was a pioneer of video game journalism. In the late 1970s he, along with Bill Kunkel, started Arcade Alley in…
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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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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 couple weeks we are going to take some time to list our favorites in a few different categories. The first category is near and ear to our hearts –…
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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 a video podcast with mixed results. How many different iMovie transitions can you recognize? See below for links to all of the sites, articles, and whatnot. Gamingyourway.com Twitter…
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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 doing”. We cover these gems: Public LiBEARy Beam Me Up, Santa Flying Blind Dino Art Museum Just in case you are wondering, no we are *not* kidding. These games…
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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 Inference : The First Shadows (Inspired by a Spectrum Game, not originally C64 or Amiga as we stated)
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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 think this might be the easiest and est way to do this. Games Reviewed:Rift Under City Eric’s Xmas Work Wars
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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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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 on the Atari 7800 (and arcade) game by Atari.GCC called Food Fight. I will be looking for a Pixel Artist to help re-skin it and put it up for…
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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 a click and drag effect in AS2 and AS3. This tutorial will take the code in those tutorials further to make a simple Christmas Tree designer in AS2 and…
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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 simple task in AS2, but in AS3 there are few complications. The following short tutorial describes how to hide/show/change the mouse pointer in both AS2 and AS3. It then…
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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 I have never really been a “game in a day” kind of guy. With my day job, kids to play with, books to write, games to review, etc, I…
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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 right access to see these: Going the Distance 2 Droids 2 Tin Can Knight Blasting Agent Mochi Spongebob takes a shower Pacos Adventure 2 The Space Race Ninja +2…
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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 seconds to complete them all. score bonus points for time left on the clock. unused time added to next level.
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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 book so far and will probably remain so. There is only one more chapter and Steve and I want to keep that one under 40 pages. It was due…
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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 be the victim in this one) has a new article called You don’t want to work in the video game industry where he lists 12 really good reasons why you…
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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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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 and found that in its current form it works best at 30FPS across all platforms. With updateAfterEvent turned on, you might still run the risk of an older computer…
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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 we both never look into the camera because we are looking at a laptop to see the goods. Still, the new gameplay overlay screens are pretty cool. Game Links:…
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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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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. Taking that lead, we created this new “demo reel” with game play video from just about 70 games in 3.5 minutes, most of which have never seen the light…
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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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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 Games. You actually see them in action. We also learned to use a screen capture utility and the results are…mediocre as always. Hey, but it’s getting better. Also, check…
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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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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 Well Wasted is a a fascinating story about his friendship with a kid whose dad was a Sega executive. As you may know, we here at 8bitrocket.com have been…
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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 magazines went beyond the standard news/preview/review/strategy format of most gaming tomes to include in-depth articles on subjects like sociology and future of the hobby. However, even those publications still…
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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, Zombie Taxi 2, Globulos Challenge, Froggy, Lost Mouse, WS Cup 2009, Battlerun, Speed Game of the Week: Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition I don’t know why I haven’t got…
