[This was the year I went to E3 with Adam and Sean. I think.]
So the adventure with Mr Runner’s development is pretty much coming to a close. I’ve still got a bit of work to do with selling some more non-exclusive licenses, but it’s done. It’s time to sit back and look at what has come out of the chaos of my experience. I’ll be talking about the creation process, finding sponsorship using FGL, working in partnership with cool sites like GameShed, and my personal analysis of the game. I’m hoping that this article will be useful for any developers that are planning on making flash games of their own and finding sponsorship using FGL.
he lesson for future games might be this: make your technology extremely simple, easy to modify, ship it with a diverse enough pool of content that people can extend it to create a variety of settings and styles, and promote the sharing of this content as a way to add value to your game.
[Favorite action game of the 90s]
Rush Coil presents 8-BIT CHRISTMAS, a full-length album inspired by classic video game music.
Why Mario wears a mustache and more!
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.
[comes recommended by Adam]
[As Jacob said: don't need it, but I like it.]
This is a native-code port to the Mac (not an emulation).
[This rocks on so many levels. Chiptunes!]
Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that.
This is a prototype of a Javascript Mario Kart-like racing game.
Super Blockquote is my new favorite game!
How can I fix this? Do I want to fix this? It just feels like I'm doing something wrong, somehow.
Is the floor the roof? Is the roof the floor? And whats with that in game timer? Find the answers to all the above questions and more in this original puzzle platformer!
You know what else is in mono? An actual guitar!
In its efforts to build an archive of scholarly and cultural interest, the Center plans to gather materials from all sectors of the industry, including developers, publishers, artists, and manufacturers connected to the videogame industry. In addition to
Hello, everyone. My name is Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Starting from today, I'd like to deliver a unique (perhaps unprecedented) series of interviews explaining the vision behind Wii, our revolutionary new console.
So if you want to write, then hit the link, unless you're in San Francisco, then email us instead. ;)
The comments come after online parenting-oriented site GamerDad.com received a special ad from the ESRB seeking full-time video game raters in New York City with "experience with children" and an "interest in and familiarity with video games."
Passively Multiplayer Online Games is a proposal to create play around our data. Playing with our data will help us learn to understand and manipulate our trails, and give us a greater sense of how we spend our time.
DS Lite Shirt, designed by the artists of Penny Arcade. I'll stop pretending I am not, also a dork.
"Game controllers haven't changed radically for more than two decades. How has that affected the industry?" [Really? Buttons, triggers, analog? Huh...]
If you were the US Government, and you wanted to increase the US money supply by $1, it would cost you something. How much, though?
Doubutsu no Mori: The Movie will be showing in cinemas across the nation as of December 16th. Tickets are already on sale at our local convenience store.
AmTech analyst PJ McNealy guesstimates that Sony's opening weekend shipments for the Playstation 3 were lower than the already lower than expected numbers.
Sony is only going to make available 500,000 total units split between the United States (400,000) on November 17 and Japan (100,000) on November 11
The company also launched a separate lawsuit against Lik-Sang in the UK for selling PSP consoles to customers in Europe and the UK, and also for mirroring the freely available PSP user guides on their servers, alleging copyright infringement.
Sony have failed to disclose to the London High Court that not only the world wide gaming community in more than 100 countries relied on Lik-Sang for their gaming needs, but also Sony Europe's very own top directors repeatedly got their Sony PSP hard or s
Who am I? I am the creator of a certain video game console. I don't want to toot my own horn, but let's just say that profits from this machine were four billion dollars higher than the Microsoft XBox.
Now you can chase 'em again. Time to chase 'em.
I think this is a painting game? Is painting a game? OMG video games are art!
Lapis, the blue-hued main character of a prototype video game by Heather Kelley, a designer with Ubisoft, wants to help women take a "magical pet adventure'' to their "happy place.''
This system plays american NES carts. No adapter is needed and this system works with standard NES controllers. (It looks like a bizarro NES circa The Future via Logan's Run)
If I could say something just changed my life, I might make this be something...
n a Tokyo classroom, a teacher demonstrates how to turn on the Nintendo DS and plug in the disc with the game on it.
It involves throwing little plastic balls at the screen to ignite fireworks, kill giant Japanese beetles and save your character from being skewered by a spike-covered platform. It's quite addictive.
Henry Jenkins is the Director of Comparative Media Studies Program and Full Professor of Literature at MIT. He has authored and edited 11 books, and has been studying videogames as media text since the early 90s from various perspectives
It pretended that you could do anything. Of course, after five minutes of play you realized that this was an illusion
Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, shared his thoughts with us on his ambitions for the "Wii"; revolutionizing gaming console user interfaces in the wake of the highly successful "Nintendo DS"
Super Mario Bros 2.5D is a remake of the classic, Super Mario Bros… in 3D. How can you remake a 2D game in 3D? Add depth! Defeat enemies as Mario in a whole new way with 3D views and 3D graphics!
Next Behind the Scenes, I’ll show you how I grab screens off a DS system.
This first week is rather short, but we're still giving up a DS Lite and some games.
"You can be the Christians blowing away the infidels, and if that doesn't hit your hot button, you can be the Antichrist blowing away all the Christians."
It was reported that the revolutionary new console was the most popular at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ‘06 - and many videos taken from the show floor showed a stampede of people heading for the Nintendo area as the doors opened in the morning!
Wonder no more why I dropped out of the University.
I like the part in the game where if you go up to the water fountain theres a thing that comes up that explains that the water in denver is a little bit hard because it contains calcium and magnesium but is harmless. Answering the hypothetical question of
Thanks Jacob! I'm not following you.
Brain Age has me all DSy. Any my initials.
Stolen from Jacob. If this shows up on Chompy for a 2nd time, I apologize.
I guess I covet NoA's webdesign, too, not just NoJ's
You can find 3841 classic and contemporary TV commercials in here. Have fun watching and downloading them for free.
Tiny shrimp! Who will win? Where are the tiny jockeys? This webdesign is great.
Click on the little Flash GO! friend on the right.
I can tell you it came out in Februarry. And I see the letters RPG.
Is your band ready to star in a video game? The 2nd Be A Guitar Hero Competition is under way and we’re looking for a few good bands! The Winner of the Be A Guitar Hero Competition will have their song playable in Guitar Hero II along with an exclusive
How and when people see pieces from the computer game in their sleep tells of the role dreaming plays in learning
This 3 minute video from the Japanese online video game show from UPRISE TV shows off how the game uses the touch screen to cook up tasty dishes in the kitchen. Knead dough, slice vegetables, and even flip things in your fry pan.
a more overall look, mostly at home consoles