Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Advertise Here

If you want to create buzz about your website / product / service now you have a chance to do this with advertisement on this blog. You can check statistics here and also you can check page rank.

Contact me via email flanture [at] gmail [dt] com or leave comment here with your info and I’ll get back to you with prices.

Thank you.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Flash Game Design Competition 5


It's not too late to sign up and participate in Flash Game Design Competition 5 sponsored by Gimme5games and MochiMedia. Send your game right now or create a new one, but before deadline on Monday, March 3rd 2008.

Great prizes are waiting for winners:

1 - $3,500 Flash CS3 licence
2 - $1,750 Flash CS3 licence
3 - $1,000 Flash CS3 licence
4 - $1,000 for best use of competition theme
5 - $1,000 viral award
6 - $500 audience award



You can read more about prizes and specifications on their website. If you have plans to join or you need someone for your game dev team, comment here about it.

Flash games competitions are great way to improve your programming skills not only because of prizes but also participation itself brings very valuable thing - experience. Good prizes are motive enough just to try to make good game, but only with experience comes organization, planning, strategy as important pillars of success.

Flash games development competitions pop-up often all over the web and rivalry is huge issue. Often it's very hard for one-man-machine to win. Instead team of developers is better solution.


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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

New Mobile Games - AFZAINIZAM


Some say mobile phones are not good for your brain. But, some Flash lite mobile games are good for your brain. One of them is Think Fast by Afzainizam. Think Fast is their's (his) first Flash lite game hosted on brand new wordpress blog. My score on easy level for + was 330 on first play. I add like mad :)
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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Flanture Birthday Contest


On January 12th 2008 this blog will celebrate it's first birthday. For that occasion I decided to run simple contest with some cool prizes, five of them. Everyone can participate and everyone who qualify have same chances to win.

It doesn't matter what are you blogging about and how successful is your blog, is it popular or not. If you want, you can even start new blog right now and enter contest with it! I will randomly choose winners (well, not me but program) so everyone is invited.

Read about rules and prizes by downloading this pdf: Birthday Contest

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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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Popular flash games and sponsorship


Today I present MicroSheep and it's two versions very popular and highly contagiuos flash games Flugtag.

screenshot of popular micro olympics game


First of all this is great game. It has simple rules, but also main ingredient for successful game: you can't stop playing it. One version of this game is hosted on Kongregate in Sports category where it is first by number of plays more than double than second place game. On MicroSheep website there is slightly different version of same game. Actually, game is completely the same except for one image. I'll get back to that. This version is called Flugtag Tournament on website. Second version is Flugtag on Mars where main ship is spaceship and not plane like in first version. Power-ups are different and interesting.

Games on website have Red Bull logo inside game on lounch pad. This clearly indicate that this game is sponsored and with such big company behind it, it's no wonder that game is popular. Question here is this: what came first, game popularity or sponsorship? 

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

One Day Until Launch

 
There is a lot of buzz around about DealDotCom. One of the reasons is that they are not yet public! They are in silent mode for ONE MORE DAY. Yet, everyone is talking about how this is great opportunity to join because you will be two days ahead of others.
 
But how to join? You got to have invitation from someone to do this, and I have made it! So, since every minute is important, no more delays, grab it while you can: www.dealdotcom.com/invite/5911/.
 

Those who find out about this from you will be thankful one day. Spread the word.

 

DealDotCom invitation banner
 
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Sunday, September 02, 2007

Blog Traffic Report



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Monday, August 27, 2007

Win $5,000 Competition

International Mobile Gaming Awards or IMGA is now open for new entries. Competition for year 2007 is closing on September 24th. Submit you flash lite game and win $5,000. This year's main sponsors are Adobe, Nokia and Movida.

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
  o Excellence in Connectivity (Multi-platform, social networking)
  o Excellence in 3D
  o Excellence in Game Play
  o Best licensed IP-based game
  o Best 2D Casual Game (Typically developed in Flash, Java, etc.)

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Personalized News

It’s true, information is power. But searching for right information often is frustrating experience with no guarantees of success. Been there, done that. I would like to see some sort of personalized news service, where I can choose what kind of information I need to see. Also, it would be even better if news are user generated, which will give me all different kind of views on specific subject. If I could be able to edit and vote on that news, sky would be the limit. What? This already exists? You are kidding!
Thoof is a user generated news and information service that learns about what you are interested in and delivers news that you care about.Thoof is dedicated to anyone interested in news and information. Thoof's "personalization algorithm" means that users access news and information based on individual likes and preferences on the very first visit. Users become part of the Thoof democracy by proposing changes/additions to posted content; all users can vote on whether the change is beneficial. Personalized News in action!
Thoof is introducing tag streams, which allows you to choose specific news categories. I have created my flash, web, funny+video and technology tags and every time I open Thoof’s home page, only this categories of news are presented to me. You can add or delete any tag you want. Another nice feature is that when you scroll to the bottom of your page, “loading more stories” box appear and web page simply gets bigger for extra news. You can use this repeatedly as many times as you need. Like never ending news page. I don’t know how long your page can become. I tried to come to the end, but after few minutes I got tired. Maybe you can find out and let me know?

This post is sponsored.

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