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Support The Concept Of Indie Game Development : Buy Shay Pierce’s Connectrode For iOS
By Jeff Fulton Shay Pierce had a solid job working for OMGPOP up until last week. Then a large social…
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HTML5 Game Development Survey
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FlashFireBug Rocks The His-house!
Last year when I was doing Facebook game development (and hating life) for a large, monstrous gaming company, we…
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Journey Out Of An Abyss: How My Rejected Cracked.com Photoplasty Images About Classic Video Games Changed My Life
Last year I joined the cracked.com forums. Cracked.com is one of the best humor sites on the interban, and what’s…
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Ace The Super Villain Comes Out Strong With “FireArm”
Another day, and another encouraging sign of things getting back on track. Ace The Super Villain , One of our best and…
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Rush Hour Plus! Yes, Good Flash Shooters On The Web Are Still Being Produced!
We were just sent a link to this from our friends over at Sokay.net (Chris Rock and Bryson Whiteman)! Rush Hour…
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Nolan Bushnell Speaks About The Atari PongDevChallenge (video)
By Jeff Fulton [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/x2u6YFtSaXE” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] Atari’s PongDevChallenge is still moving along. Atari sent us this press release…
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Coming Back From The Dead…
We had a near total failure of the site last night. However, we were able to export all the old content,…
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Richard Davey Speaks About The Reality of HTML5 Game Development
By Jeff Fulton Pro Flash game development veteran Richard Davey has a great article named “The Reality of HTML5 Game Development…
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Emergent Game Play In Classic Games
A few weeks ago on one of the forums I frequent, a fellow retro game fan (Rimbo) talked about playing “Time…
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Ansca Corona Cross Platform Mobile Development: The Good, the Kind of Bad, and the Not So Ugly
By Jeff Fulton Ansca Corona For Cross-platform development At Producto Studios, we have just finished a large 5 month cross-platform (iPhone,…
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Top 10 “Other” Ways To Punish A Laptop Computer (Besides Shooting It 8 Times) (Video)
By Steve Fulton [iframe width=”550″ height=”440″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/OugrYsr7pOA” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] A few weeks ago we saw a video of a guy punishing…
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Stuck trying to think of a mobile game idea? Try App-o-Tron.
By Jeff Fulton If you are stuck spinning your wheels, trying to think of the next “Angry Birds”, “Fruit Ninja”, or…
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Atari Clarifies Pong Indie Developer Challenge Royalties
We received this from Atari’s PR Team today to clarify royalties on winning games: “Pong Indie Developer Challenge was conceived as…
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Instead Of Lighting Up The Indie Game Dev Community, Atari Pong Contest Raises Familar Questions About Ownership And Intellectual Property
“Enter Game Development Contests At Your Own Risk!” We’ve written about this in the past, both online and in our book…
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While iOS Builds, we play Atari 800 Games
(Jeff Fulton) The History of Apple (early at least) and Atari are linked together in many ways, so it is fitting…
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Up Atari’s Sleeve: An $100,000 iOS Game Contest To Reimagine Pong!
So, what Atari had up it’s sleeve was a $100,000 contest to re-imagine Pong. While this might appear to…
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Atari has something up its’ sleeve…
So Atari has something special to announce tomorrow. We are hoping it is something classic…
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Distellamaps : Ben Fry Visualizes Atari 2600 Code : Suitable For Blowing Your Mind (And Framing)
Sometime it seems like we miss some pretty good stuff because we are busy working and not trying to scour the…
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8bitrocket.com Interviews Johnny Wilson Former Editor Of Computer Gaming World
By Steve Fulton (Note: A Portion of this interview ran on http://www.gamecareerguide.com/ December, 2011) Johnny L. Wilson was the editor of Computer Gaming…
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Retro Gamer Review
By Jeff Fulton With traditional game related magazines falling by the way-side every day, why would Retrogamer magazine still be going…
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By Jeff Fulton With traditional game related magazines falling by the way-side every day, why would Retrogamer magazine still be going…
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Flash Gaming Summit Coming up Fast! (March 4th)
The Flash Gaming Summit returns again this year as the première event for Flash game developers. We were honored to…
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Interesting notes on External Interface JavaScript Call-Backs To Flash
This week we had a big project due for a new Movie that is coming out in a few weeks time.…
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8bitrocket.com Forums Are Back To Manual Registration
The 8bitrocket.com forums are using a manual, closed registration system. If you are already a member, please click here: If you…
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Atari Vets “Getting The Band Back Together” To Rock Mobile Games Like’s It’s 1979 All Over Again
Denis Koble, Rich Adam, Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, Bruce Merritt, Tim Skelly, Owen R. Ruben, Ed Rotberg, Bob Smith, and Rob…
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Atari Nerd Fantasy: What If Our Games Had Been Released As Cartridges For A Classic Console (photo)
We were thinking over the weekend that it would be nice to have some kind of physical way to represent the…
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Chuck is gone, but it will leave a lasting impression (to modern nerds at least)
(Jeff Fulton) The TV show Chuck had it last two episodes last night and while it never achieved a huge TV…
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When Social Media Fails
This week I found out that someone I know is in a very bad situation. Actually, the situation is dire, really…
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Star Wars Uncut The Director’s Cut Released : Another Sign Of The Apocalypse?
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 331 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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Corporate Development Work Almost Killed Me
(Jeff Fulton) Corporate Development Work Almost Killed Me First the good news. I no longer work for a large corporation and…
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336 Days Left : The Next Sign Of The Apocalypse : Microsoft Adds Achievements For Coding Into Visual Studio
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 336 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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Stop SOPA and PIPA: To quote an old NRA slogan. If you OUTLAW web sites, only OUTLAWS will have Web Sites.
(Jeff Fulton) Even our Book Publisher is against SOPA and PIPA O’Reilly, (our book publisher) is one of the many companies…
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346 Days Left : Next Sign Of The Apocalypse : The Kindle Fire Holding It’s Own Against The Apple iPad
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 346 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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Where is the Point Blank Remake?
(Jeff Fulton) Point Blank and Point Blank 2 were 2 of the best party style games for the original Playstation. You…
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348 Days Left : Next Sign Of The Apocalypse : Tom Chick Goes Solo
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 348 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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349 Days Left To Code: Next Sign Of Doomsday : Bob Cringley Quits Writing About Technology
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 349 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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351 Days Left To Play: Next Sign Of Doomsday : Adobe Sales Are Up
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 351 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided…
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352 Days Left To Play: First Sign Of Doomsday : Atari Defends Its’ Intellectual Property
The current Mayan Countdown has us at 352 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com…
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My Interview With Johnny Wilson (CGW) Live on GameCareerGuide.com
A few months back I got the urge to catch-up with Johnny Wilson, the long-time editor of Computer Gaming World. I…
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spaceport.io Takes some of the Pain Out of HTML5 Game Development By Helping you convert AS3 to HTML5
Wow, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the exciting new APIs, SDKs and platforms emerging for HTML5 game development!…
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Atari Nerd Chronicles: The Best Christmas Ever
Although I had no idea in early 1981, my brother and I were video game obsessed twins on a collision-course…
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The 12 Years Of Atari Christmas 1981-1992
On Christmas ’81 Atari gave to me, a VCS under the Christmas tree On Christmas ’82 Atari gave to me,…
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HTML5 Canvas Game: Tic Tac Pro Quack The Glass – Goes Gold
8bitrocket in conjunction with Producto Studios and in association with TicTacDontion.com is proud to announce the launch of our HTML5 Canvas…
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Atari 80’s Christmas Commercials (More Filler For A Slow Week)
Nothing brings back 8-bit Christmas memories like atrocious video game commercials from the 80’s. The funny is, we LOVED these commercials.…
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Atari History Book Kickstarter Project Launches
By Jeff Fulton Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel have launched their Kickstarter.com project to help get their massive Atari History book…
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Image Gallery : From Altair To Nintendo : Christmas Themed Computer And Video Games Ads and Editorial Pages, 1975-1989
When I was growing up, getting into the Christmas spirit usually involved reading my favorite computer and video game magazines and…
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Italian Review of HTML5 Canvas : fantastico!
Here is a review of our book HTML5 Canvas in Italian. The English translation appears to be pretty positive, however, the…
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HTML5 Puzzle Game : Color Drop : Game Demo + AS3 vs. JavaScript Code Comparison
Color Drop was game that was featured in our book The Essential guide To Flash Games. Earlier this month I decided…
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What the hell are you running from?
When I was in 5th grade I started to run. I ran with a friend named Richie and we would circle…
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8bitrocket 5 Year Anniversary : Throwing Up the Past and Top-10 Of Everything We could Think Of
Today is our 5 year anniversary. It’s been a roller-coaster-ride-kinda-year here at 8bitrocket Towers, with many ups and downs, sharp turns…
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HTML5 Canvas Christmas Tree Drag And Drop Demo And Tutorial
Here is another demo from DevCon5. Yesterday we showed you an action game, now we will show you something completely different.…
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HTML5 Canvas “1945” Game Demo
Here is one of the game demos we showed at Devcon5 last week. This is an action game named 1945. It…
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New Forum Redux
A couple notes about the new forums. 1. the permissions have been updated so registered users can post in all forums…
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New Forums To Focus On HTML5 Game And App Development (with Flash and Corona too)
We’ve had a lot of requests to start a forum for HTML5 Game and App developers. Since we use HTML5, Flash,…
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8bitrocket Blows The Roof Off DevCon5! :)
Well, maybe the roof stayed on, but our presentations were a quite bit more successful than we imagined. We’ve received tons…
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DevCon5 Santa Clara Live Blog
7:59 : 8bitsteve: Sending last Skype messages to colleagues at Electrotank. Finished the presentation last night. Actually, 2 presentations. Spent…
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Steve and I will be presenting on the HTML5 Canvas at Devcon5 on Wedensday
The conference is in Santa Clara on Wednesday and Thursday. We have a three hour block from 2-5PM on Wednesday to present.…
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The People You Will Meet At Your Garage Sale
Garage Sale People (originally written in 2004) What better way to meet the neighbors than to have a garage sale. Actually…
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Old Web Game Designer Friend Gets Published: Author Kevin Bloomfield
Back in the glory days of Mattel online, we worked on numerous Flash games and web sites with Kevin Bloomfield. …
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Cerebral Fix CEO Ben Dellaca Says They Just “Discovered” Mid-Core Gaming. We Beg To Differ.
In an article at games.blog.com Cerebral Fix CEO Ben Dellaca says they just discovered “Mid-core Gaming”: Is Zynga dominating social games on Facebook…
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Finally: Atari Museum Atari History Book Is On The Way!
By Jeff Fulton We’ve been politely pestering Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel from The Atari history Museum to finish their book…
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Who Cares! Well, actually, Producto Studios and The Who Do!
8bitrocket in conjunction Producto Studios is proud to be a small part to a big cause. Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, and Dave Grohl…
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Happy Thanksgiving From 8bitrocket.com
(turkey image borrowed from here, turned into ASCII here)
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The Kinect : Only The Illusion Of “Fun”
So I’ve been branded a “Kinect” lover by some people, and for the past year that has been a fairly accurate…
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R.I.P. Gary Garcia of “Pac Man Fever” Fame : Now It’s time For Hollywood To Make A Movie About “Pac Man Fever”
By Jeff Fulton “To create a song that has mass appeal is among the most difficult things you’ll ever do.” –Jerry…
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Adobe Donates Flex To Open Source Foundation
Not much else to say here except to link to this: Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy. A…
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Press Release: 8bitrocket.com’s Jeff Fulton and Steve Fulton to Discuss the Emerging Role of Canvas Development At DevCon5 in Santa Clara, Dec. 7-8, 2011
8bitrocket.com’s Jeff Fulton and Steve Fulton to Discuss the Emerging Role of the Canvas Development Environment At DevCon5 in Santa…
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More Fuel For The HTML5 Fire: Adobe Admits That The Long Term Viability Of The Flex SDK In Doubt
In the “Your Questions About Flex Blog” on blogs.adobe.com, Adobe appears to be putting the future of Flex in doubt: Does…
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Now Don’t Get Cocky “Web Standards” Dudes, HTML5 Still Has A Looooooooong Way To Go.
Two days ago Adobe announced that were were ceasing development of the Flash player for the mobile web, in favor of…
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One Day After Adobe Retreats Flash From The Mobile Web: Our HTML5 Canvas Book Hits #1 On The Game Programming Chart At Amazon.com
Also, it has the lowest ranking it has ever achieved too.
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Adobe Drops Mobile Browser Flash Support : Are You Ready To Stop Thinking We Are Crazy And Learn About The HTML5 Canvas ?
So, we’ve heard “through the grapevine” that many of our old readers and Flash Game colleagues were pretty skeptical about our…
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Texture Packer Makes Sprites Easy to Export From Flash. For Corona, as well as Cocos2d, and more.
I have a huge new gig that includes taking 100’s of pre-existing Flash animations and using them to create a cross…
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Book Review: Fantasy Freaks And Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
Here it is, I’ll come out and say it. I used to play pencil and paper role playing games. I played…
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Goodbye Dad, Hello “Code Writer’s Block”
My dad died just about 5 months ago. In that time, I have done lots of things. I have written a…
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Flash Is Dead? Games Volume Grows And Multi-player Pays Off: An Interview With Mochi Media
Recently we caught-up with Alexander Shen from Mochi Media to ask him about the state of Mochi and viral Flash Games.…
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iOS 5 Has SUPERCHARGED the HTML5 Canvas
Wow! Just freaking wow! My current two gigs are both HTML5 gigs, so that book we wrote is getting a lot…
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Pinball Mania! “Special When Lit” on Netflix and “The Pinball Arcade” For Nearly Every Platform That Matters
When my wife and I first met, we spent countless hours playing pinball together. In the mid 1990’s you could…
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The Day Wii Played Hooky : How My Family Loved And Lost The Nintendo Wii
By Steve Fulton In 2006 my family played hooky: All 5 of us. It was a Monday in November. The previous…
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Sometimes Destiny Lies Between The Lines or How 4th Grade Isn’t Necessarily The End Of The World
By Steve Fulton I sat next to Michael Jackson in the 4th grade. Not that Michael Jackson, but Mike Jackson, my…
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Our Favorite Viral Videos About The Games And Web Business
Code Monkey Jonathan Coulton’s classic song about the life of a software developer. One of the all-time best songs ever written.…
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The Psychological Incentives Of Social Games Are Oddly Familiar. Hmm…I wonder where I’ve seen this before?
Here Are Some Psychological Incentives Of Social Games That We have Observed Money is converted to “credits”, tokens, or chips for…
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Cracked.com’s 4 Worst Things About Writing For The Internet Can Be Applied To Games Too
Cracked.com, one of my favirote site right now, published a story last week named “The 4 Worst Thing About Writing For…
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iWoz: The “Steve” I Always Liked Was Wozniak
With all the hoopla about the passing of world’s greatest technology dictator and reality distortion master last week (okay, and the…
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Through The Looking Glass? : 6 Weeks Into My New Gig
So I’m now 6 weeks into my new gig working as a contractor for a game and technology company. At this…
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Just So You Know Who You Are Dealing With Here: A Note From 1985
Just in case you had no idea who you are dealing with when you come to this site, here is note…
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Worst Products And Services For Classic Gamers (circa 1982-1984): Final Roundup Of Even More Useless Products
In the past two article (part 1 and part 2 ), I have tried to tell stories with insight into just how…
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And the Man on the Hill said HTML5, build it and they will come…
This really is just a “state of the union” for 8bitrocket (8bitsteve and 8bitjeff) to go over some of the events…
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Video Games Are My Hobby: My Essay From English Class, March 1982
My essay for Mr. Davis’ 6th grade English class, March 22, 1982, Foster A, Begg, Junior High, Manhattan Beach, CA. (text…
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Our HTML5 Canvas Book Already Made a Profit
Less than 5 months after being published and in spite of one Amazon reviewer that was angry because the book was too long…
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Republic Of Fun Aims To Take Over The World With Ginormous HTML Game Engine
Republic Of Fun have announced Ginormous, and HTML5, cloud-based game engine that aims to toi give developers a way to…
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Literally, there would be no 8bitrocket without Steve Jobs
8bitSteve , Eric Barth, and I literally created our first “8bitrockets” by programming long basic programs on Eric’s Apple IIe.…
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Adobe Purchases Phone Gap
Adobe just bought Phone Gap. We think it’s a good move. We used-up an entire chapter of out HTML5…
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Truth In Advertising #1: Atari 2600 Launch Games
We love the box-art for the original Atari 2600 games. The amazing game paintings inspired by the “idea” of the game…
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The Flash CS5.5 Air Package to iOS Kicks ass!
I had avoided upgrading the Flash CS5.5 for a few months because the job I had didn’t really need it and…
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Katz/Kunkel/Worley : The History Of Video Games From Holy Trinity Of Game Journalism
Bill Kunkel, Arnie, Katz and Joyce Worley were the pioneers of game journalism. Here, in chronological order, are links to…
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Who Killed Video Games?: Tim Rogers Knows
In his latest, and possibly greatest piece of writing, Tim Rogers explores the mystery of “Who Killed Video Games:A Ghost Story“.…
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Unity -> Flash Stage 3D Looks Impressive
Yesterday at the free “Flash Day” at the Unity Unite conference, the Unity team showed off their new Unity -> Flash…
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The Atari Sanction : Chapter 1 (fiction)
Detective Jake Rolly rubbed the sheet green-bar printer between his thumb and forefinger. He sat back in his rolling chair, and…
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A Tribute to the Child-Oriented Consumer Goods Company “New Media” Department Golden Era (2001 – 2006)
Note: This is a true story that depicts real events from the perspective of the author. Most real names of the people…
