Building a retro platform game in Flixel, Part 1 Note: This tutorial was originally written for .net magazine. I’m now allowed to publish it here, so read on and enjoy! Grab the files for download before starting! Retro style games are becoming more popular than ever online. Commonly referred to as “8-bit” these games have [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Diamond Hollow II by Arkeus! If you like retro platformers, you are going love Diamond Hollow II. Arkeus creates a world beneath the surface, where you need to climb and defeat various creatures in order to get out. The closer to the surface you get, the [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Wonderputt by Damp Gnat! Wonderputt. Is. Awesome. That pretty much sums it up. The enjoyment of playing this game comes from two directions: the gameplay of putting the ball into the hole(s), and also from the fact that your interacting with a work of art. The [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Jet Velocity 2 by devm-games! Jet Velocity is a series of futuristic racing games. The series includes: Jet Velocity, Jet Velocity 3D, and Jet Velocity 2. Jet Velocity 2 is a fun, straight-up racing game. You are a hover vehicle competing with others to win the [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Bohun: Revenge by Gennadiy Genyuk! Bohun: Revenge is a fun side-scrolling fighting game. This game definitely has visual appeal, but it also has nice controls, particularly with the three different attacks. Those attacks plus the spells option leave the player with a variety of choices for [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Icarus Project by Limex Games! The game begins with a professor who is recruiting you to test out his new “flying machine”. This is a machine is is difficult to navigate, heats up insanely fast, and sucks down a lot of fuel. The professor sets you [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Zomgies 2 by Longanimals and Jimp! Zomgies 2 is awesome. This isn’t “just another zombie game”, but a running shooter where the goal is to get through hordes of zombies to advance to the next level. Your character can choose up to two weapons (you earn [...]

Winner’s Circle This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Hungry Sumo by Ninja Kiwi! As the game name implies, you are a hungry sumo. But you don’t do any wrestling in this game. All you have to do is eat, or not eat, at the right times. The more you eat, the bigger you get…but [...]

Post Mortem: Papa’s Taco Mia!   Introduction Papa’s Taco Mia! is the third game in our series of hands-on cooking sims, with Papa Louie expanding his restaurant empire and branching out into the taco business.  The original time-management game in the series launched way back in 2007, and since then we hadn’t seen very many [...]

Legend of the Golden Robot This was a game produced by robotJAM, Cathy McBurney and Rob Donkin, which was kindly sponsored by Mochi Media. Rob James/ robotJAM (Artist/bad coder/ designer): I spent 10 years making Playstation games and then 5 years in advertising/advergames and am now an indie game developer. I work with Rob Donkin [...]