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 [...]

Recently I received an email from Emanuele Feronato with some great news about an upcoming book on Flash game development! If you’re not familiar with Emanuele Feronato, he’s an Italian programmer who blogs frequently about topics near and dear to a Flash game developer’s heart such as game programming, design and monetization. Many developers over [...]

Get to Know Berzerk Studio I had a chance to catch up with the Berzerk Studio team last week. These guys have made some really great games, such as Homerun in Berzerk Land, Berzerk Ball, and Gunbot. Gunbot was actually our Flash Game Friday winner last week. Take a minute to get to know them [...]

Casual Connect, Hamburg Mochi’s “Mr. Shen” (aka Alexander Shen) presented at Casual Connect in Hamburg last month. He had a great turnout for his presentation, titled “Smashing Creative Roadblocks”, and really enjoyed talking about the creative process with the Casual Connect attendees (watch the video). In case you didn’t know, Mr. Shen is a pretty [...]