Archive for August 2005
Miniclip Game Development Competition
Not to be outdone by the BBC and Channel 4, Miniclip has today announced that we are going to run a Flash game development competition.
We've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now, and are really excited to see the types of games that people are going to come up with. I'm bound to be biased but I must say I think our competition is the best of the bunch. The main advantage ...
Flash 8 officially announced
Everyone new Flash 8 was being worked on but it has now been officially announced and it is possible to preorder from the Macromedia website.
Flash 8 has now been officially announced (along with Fireworks 8 and Dreamweaver 8), and along with the 'big new features', a number of smaller less impressive but, in some ways, more important things have also been added. You can check out the lesser known features of Flash 8 on Mike ...
Bubble Blitz release
Woot - Bubble Blitz is out of the door. I had intended to send it off last weekend but as normal you release a game to other developers and they find a stack of bugs or issues with the game. Of course now that it has been ripped apart it is much more solid and, hopefully, less likely to break.
The game has generally been classed as a nice little puzzle game ...
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Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.