Friday, December 26, 2008

Few Days Until Birthday Cake

GET 1 YEAR FREE ADD SPOT on this blog !!!

How to participate?

Post on your blog small review of FLANTURE BLOG (just few words) with link back to home page and answer to question: what was the date and year of Flanture very first post? That’s all! Leave comment with your link or email it: flanture [at] gmail

Single Winner will be announced on blog’s Birthday !!!

I never imagined this blog will last so long. It started as my very first blogging experiment. I wanted to see what blogging is all about. I surely learned a lot with it during this period, even earned few bucks and blog is still alive and kicking.

Twice I wanted to terminate it. First time the reason I continued with blogging is that I realized I can make some money with it. It was matter of days, actually since I already decided to end it, but by pure coincidence those were the days I found out what page rank is, what SEO is and that kind of things, and how to generate money using blog. When I saw Google has given me a gift of PR5, my blog was alive again.

This situation didn’t last for long because, off course PR dropped and also I started new, better version of this blog, so once again I decided to finish this one. During some months this year a had just one or two posts, which is, by all standards, sure sign of a dead blog. In the meantime I have learned that blogging is usually long term project. More chances for success for older blogs, no matter what their niche is. This valuable fact has made me think not to close blog that got so far, but to use it in any possible way I can think of.

Happy Birthday to me !

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Flash Game Developer Challenge

Challenge details

The Whirled Flash Game Developer Challenge is a standing game development contest that runs every three months. All games that are uploaded to Whirled during the contest period and comply with the conditions are eligible. There are two categories for prizes - single and multiplayer games. What this means is that if you miss the deadline, don’t worry much because four challenges are held during every year.

Prizes and deadlines


In order to participate in current Whirled Flash Game Challenge you need to submit your game before January 31, 2009 which means you have more than 40 days! Prizes are split into two categories, Multi-Player Game and Single-Player Game. So what is the cash you or your team can harvest? For multi-player game:

* 1st Place: $7,500
* 2nd Place: $5,000
* 3rd Place: $4,000
* 4th Place: $2,000
* 5th Place: $1,000


Prizes for single-player game are just a little bit lower:

* 1st Place: $2,000
* 2nd Place: $1,500
* 3rd Place: $1,000
* 4th Place: $750
* 5th Place: $250


All together that’s $25,000 quarterly! Not bad, not bad at all.

Conditions


There are some conditions for participants. First of all you have to be original creator of the game and you must hold rights for it. Games may not contain advertising or links to 3rd party sites, but you can link to your own site(s). One of the most important condition is game must be written in ActionScript3.0, sorry no as2.0 code. Also you must be 18 or above and you may submit unlimited number of games. Read full rules here.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Call of the Pharaoh - MWC 2008 winner

Mobile World Congress 2008 is over and winners are announced. Winner in best mobile game category are Call of the Pharaoh by Cellufun and My Hangman by Glu Mobile. Here is description of Call of the Pharaoh.

“Call of the Pharaoh is modelled after viral pyramid schemes, so the game was designed using a pyramid scheme algorithm and, in an effort to follow the pattern, was then made about being a pharaoh and building a pyramid. By requiring recruitment and cooperation, the game drives viral exposure and traffic. Call of the Pharaoh is compelling and innovative because it engages the entire community of Cellufun users and requires participation and communication from all parties in order for any one gamer to advance to a next level. The community aspect and pyramid scheme design of this game help it stand out from the rest.”

 

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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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Saturday, January 12, 2008

First Birthday


Today is Flanture’s first birthday. Before exactly one year this blog has started. More on my experience later, but now I just wanted to express my regret that noone has won Flanture Birthday Contest, because there was 0 entries.  It’s all the same to me, but you just missed your chance to win free sitewide graphic banner spot on page rank 4 blog. Well, nevermind, more birthdays to come.
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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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Monday, October 29, 2007

Flash mobile games development competition with extra prizes


“Are you a Flash games developer? Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, hobbyst or professional, you can put Flash Lite games in front of a big audience, with the chance to build a following. Start now by entering the launch contest, and you can also win significant prizes.


- first prize $10,000
- second prize $7,000
- third prize $3,000
- fourth prize $1,500
- fifth prize $1,000
- plus 5 further prizes of $500 each”

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Contributors can download Flash extension suitable for Flash 8 and CS3 which will allow them easy required framework integration.


This is probably that big chance and opportunity to start with flash mobile games development if there was a doubt earlier. More and more mobile devices have flash lite and that number will increase rapidly in following years. New big marketplace is starting to form and early adopters are once who will profit the most.


More info about competition HERE .

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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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