Virtual Controllers For Touch Based Devices (pt.1) As I’m working on a series of articles on Pushbutton Engine I thought I’d use that as a basis for testing some virtual controllers I have be playing about with. For one, it saves me for having to create the majority of the scaffold code and concentrate on [...]

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 [...]

Setting-up FlashDevelop and Flixel for the first time Last updated March 22nd 2011 for FlashDevelop version: 3.3.4 and Flixel version: 2.43 Hello World The popularity of Flixel attracts a lot of new developers. Often they are coming into it not from Flash, but from other languages and game making tools. There’s nothing wrong with this, [...]

Chibi Knight Post Mortem At the beginning of 2010 I released a Flash game called “Chibi Knight” which can be played here. To-date it is, by far, my most popular game with millions of plays on many websites. I’m not quite sure what made Chibi Knight so appealing, but I’ll try not to bore you [...]

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 [...]

Hi, my name is Jay and I work at Mochi Media.  Islands of the Empire was the first (and only) game I have made.  So one day I was messing around with Flash and built this really cool map engine using Pixel Bender and was like, “Damn, I’m gonna build a game.” URL: http://armorgames.com/play/10238/islands-of-empire Source: [...]

This is a collection of thoughts and tips when developing Flash games targeted to a mobile, more specifically to Android using Adobe’s AIR . I write these notes with a specific focus on full screen games. I’ll cover a few things to think about when designing your game, and a then a few tips and [...]

Toge Shares With The Developer Community As promised, here is the video playback from the Mochi Virtual Developer Community Event on December 16th with Toge Productions. Kris and Sudarmin put together a fantastic presentation, generously sharing their lessons learned in game design as well as some tips on ad placement and micro transactions. The video [...]

Click to try it out! I was sitting on the train this morning when an idea hit me in the head like a poorly scribbled note tied to a brick going through a plate glass window. I’ve been reading Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and recently got through a part [...]

Creating Successful Games: Lessons In Virtual Currency Mochi Media President and COO Josh Larson gave a presentation at Casual Connect in Seattle in July 2010 on some of Mochi’s findings and best practices when implementing a virtual currency and how best to utilize in games. Check out the video! Slideshow Only Lessons In Virtual Currency: [...]