Sunday, March 09, 2008

Team vs Solo Project
Newcomers in games development have first major dilemma about whether to work with someone else or to try to do everything alone.

Solo project is suitable for smaller projects, for simple game play games and for not so demanding graphic games. It is all about what you want to achieve. Perfect solo project games in ActionScript are logic / puzzle games. They usually include small number of graphic symbols with repetitive usage and few interesting sound effects. Game play and controls are easy to implement in all ActionScript versions. This is also great test for future development and self assessment.

Teams are great for gaining experience, one of most important skill in game development. Splitting all work needed among designers (sounds and graphics), programmers and marketing dudes is dream come true for right people and road to success, but this is often very hard to do.

Good starting point in looking to join some team or to create one with right people are game dev forums like:

IDevGames
GameDev
GameDevForum
DevMaster

Good luck!
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Theme of the Month: HeroInteractive


Among huge number of new flash games development teams, sometimes you find team that can make a difference with wonderfull ideas and most playable games. This time Flanture presents Hero Interactive.



HeroInteractive started making Flash games in August 2006 and for a year and a half few titles emerges:

* Flippy Cup - September 2006
* Captain Coppergravel - October 2006
* Alien Abduction II - March 2007
* Bubble Tanks - March 2007
* LightSprites - May 2007
* StarShine - June 2007
* Triangles - July 2007
* StormWinds - just released

Many games for such short period of time. My favorite games (they are also popular on Kongregate - flash games community) are StarShineand newest one,StormWinds.


There is not much information on Hero Interactive, but they do have blog section on their website, they are from Michigan and only interview with HI you can read HERE .

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Where to sell your flash games
You have finished your Flash game, you like it a lot and you want others to play it. Have you consider to monetize your work besides giving others joy of playing? Here are some good places on web where you can make a buck or more.

Kongregate is maybe best place for you. If your game is chosen you can win some weekly cash or monthly top $1500 prize. Also, Kongregate shares ad revenues with developers.

Mochiads "is a no-hassle way for Flash game developers make money from every play. Their flexible system is easy to setup and gives you control over where and when advertisements show." You place ad inside your game and every time someone plays it you earn. No cost and no obligations. Payments are via PayPal after your earnings reach $100.

CrazyMonkeyGames will sponsor your Flash game, just ask for it on contact page.

Gamegecko is another website where you can ask for sponsorship request for your games.

NewGrounds is THE biggest flash portal on Internet with 500k visitors a day. Here you can find opportunity to be noticed by many and where is traffic, there is cash also.

Hope this quick list will help you in your money making online quest with your Flash games development skills. If you know any other good website do leave a comment. Thanks.

Digg!
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Learning from the source


The best method for learning is learning from the source. When it comes to game development with Adobe Flash, than best place should be Adobe, right?. Watch several videos online and read how to make games with Flash from Jiro Ietaka. Article and videos are hosted at Adobe pages here.

User level for this articles is intermediate.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Introducing Page Rank 7

 

Recently with my Free PR5 links giveaway (http://flanture.blog.com/1982660) I started something good. My intention was to give something back to my precious readers and first thing that came to my mind was back links share.
 
However, completely randomly I visited Iwebtool and while playing around, I wanted to find out how I am helping to those links on my sidebar. I wanted to check how my blog helps WebAction, so I entered web address of that blog. It struck me when I realized that some of my pages have PR6 and this one page http://flanture.blog.com/1613467 from March 2007 has even PR7!
 
I suppose this shows that I got something valuable here. If anyone in interested in renting some text link space on my sidebar do email me at flanture [at] gmail [dot] com and we can discuss it. Thanks for your support.

Flanture [Flash adventure]

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Friday, August 17, 2007

I got Sharpening Stone

I just got Sharpening Stone. That's my third card besides Juju, the Shaman and Ubuntu, the Elder.

Sharpening Stone card from Kongregate games website
Website is Kongregate, flash games hosting community. Game in which those cards will be used doesn't exists yet! Amazing! But everyone is trying to collect them, since, when game come it will bring some major rewards for players. Interested? Become my Kong friend by joining this community.
 
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Monday, July 16, 2007

Flanture and Mobile

Recently I got myself new Nokia phone with built in Flash Lite Player and I like it a lot. Transfer of files from PC to mobile is easy as copy and paste, but it is also possible via Bluetooth or IC.

First search of Web for free Flash mobile content took me at Flashstocks, where I downloaded few screensavers and wallpapers. My favorite is Ball Clock. My excitement is increasing every day about Flash Lite and Flash Mobile content, so I decided to read a little about it and learn more. I found "Flash Applications for Mobile Devices" by Richard Leggett, Weyert de Boer and Scott Janousek with 537 pages and I downloaded source code from book's publisher website and now I'm ready to dive into Flash Lite.
At the moment I don't have great expectations, but to learn some new stuff and make few animations or applications for myself.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Emanuele Feronato rocks !

 

Emanuele Feronato and his website really rocks. For every Flash Game Developer wannabe this is never ending source of useful informations about making games in Flash. More suitable for beginers, but well explained, code everywhere , samples and stuff.

 

I wish I could have more free time to explore it more. Nice work Emanuele !

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Friday, June 01, 2007

More Easy Money

I wrote earlier about Kongregate flash games community in Easy Money post, but there is much more to tell about this, since this website is rapidly growing project.

There is 765 games online right now, and that number is changing fast. All games are in several categories: Action, Racing, Shooter, Sports, Puzzle and Strategy and More. Everyone can upload his flash game. Players decide about it, they rate it, comment it and so on. Kongregate is founded in 2006 and they want to become "leading online hub for players and game developers".

Few interesting ideas are present. First, while you play and rate games from other developers, those best games, highest rated games in every month are entering Contest and every month $1500 is rewarded. Second highest gets $1000, etc, 9th gets $250. That's not all. Weekly prize is $250 for first place, $150 for second and third. Not bad at all.

But wait, there is even more. While playing games, some games can get you cards. I got 2 cards for now, Ubuntu, the Elder and Juju, the Shaman. For those I had to play 4 different games, reach some levels and stuff. Cards will be used in game that is still in development, and that will be available on Kongregate when it is finished. I can imagine that this game will also have some heavy cash prizes.

Come and try it. I just wanted to see how is it and now I'm really hooked. What can I do? Some things are stronger than me :)

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Easy Money

    I'm level1 kongregater and I have 25 points. It wasn't easy. First I had to sign up. Then, I had to play some not so good flash games. But I did it! I rated 2 games and I got 5 points for each. That's 25. 

   Website is kongregate.com and it's all about playing, making, rating flash games. Whole community of raters and kongregaters. If you upload your game you got 75 points. If you have your game featured you got 50 points. More points higher level. So? Well, they say : Soon, you'll be able to redeem your points for prizes ! What? For 1.000 points i become invisible magic rater? Great.

    Gone to collect more powerful points. See you there.

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