If you like word games you are going to love Spellbounce! You must spell as many words as you can with the letters provided, spelling words keeps your letters bouncing. If a letter stops bouncing it freezes, if all your letters freeze your round is over!
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Check out the official announcement at MochiLand (click)…As you can see Phil and I didn’t win the grand prize (and if that list is in order(?) it looks like we got 9th of 10!), however, I want to thank Phil for all of his amazing artwork and he and I both know it was an accomplishment to be in the winners circle!
The New Recruit (our game) will be playable at some point over the next 9 weeks(!!!) depending on which of the 9 remaining weeks they choose to release it on if Warner Bros. sticks to their 1 game per week plan. In the meantime you really should take a look at the grand prize winning game “Batman: Gotham City Rush” developed by Weirdbeard Games. The game is an amazingly fun concept (in my opinion) and a great fresh take on the side-scrolling action game, congratulations to Weirdbeard I played that game for an hour and afterward I was truly satisfied that the game deserved the win.
So at the end of the day we didn’t take it all the way, but we got pretty damn close and created a game we were proud of. Now it’s on to bigger and better things, stay tuned!
Yeah, we still haven’t heard the results of the Warner Bros. contest! Up until this past Monday it wasn’t really on my mind because I was consumed with designing and writing Battlenoid Redux by the deadline (this past Monday, made it!) that was set for the design test I made it for(more on this later). But now that I have had a chance to take a deep breath I am back to feeling the anticipation of this delayed results announcement. We finished the game nearly a month ago, which is a long time for someone like me who currently perceives time in something akin to dog years (except shorter, more like Mayfly years)…My foray into flash game development could be over in another months time if things don’t work out right, it’s a financially and life-goal(ally) unsustainable voyage at present.
Now just because I am anxiously awaiting the results of the Batman contest that doesn’t mean that I am simply gonna sit on my hands till I hear. Nope, I am as busy as ever, the deadline for the design test is not the end of the Battlenoid Redux development, I plan to make it the crown jewel of my portfolio and won’t rest until that is accomplished (though hopefully that is accomplished in the next 3-4 weeks). Further I am working on Trial Tower III: Takedown, the game I mentioned earlier that is associated with Newgrounds’ Power of 3 contest. This game will hopefully be another evolution for me in terms of game design and execution.
I am also trying to organize and streamline my work-flow, create a better and more engaging web presence (via Twitter, which I will now be updating “daily” so follow me peoples), and generally consolidate everything I have learned over the past year to create a better Game Designer. I am going to try my hand at some game reviews as well, I hear these are good to do for aspiring game designers, so stay tuned for some opinionated reports on sometimes unusual (I have an eclectic taste) games I come across. Finally, I considered writing some how-to posts and hints for working with AS3 but really why bother when you could just go to Emanuel Feronato’s blog (he is the man)…so instead I am going to write a bit about balancing game development with physical fitness, a niche my past experience allows me to fill!
Created for the Warner Bros./MochiAds Batman: The Brave and the Bold Flash game contest…This collection of mini-games earned mousehog an award as a top 10 finalist!
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Stick a fork in it folks, this one’s done! Phil and I are absolutely pumped about the way The New Recruit turned out and have submitted our final product for review. The places and prizes will be announced on July 3rd, but until then I (and I’m sure Phil as well) will be celebrating a job well done. It was a long and certainly the most challenging development I have done so far. Since the game is essentially a collection of six completely different games the project required a lot of planning, tons of balancing…basically all the tweaking and polishing and design/balancing that you need to do on a normal game x6…
But the thrill of achievement is always worth the pain of getting there and this is no exception. I do not know when or if this game will be made available to the general public, if we win the game will certainly be available at some point in the not so distant future. However, if we don’t win I don’t know what the fate of the game will be or whether it will see the blinding light of the never-ending day that is the Internet. I will keep you updated on all the latest via this site of course. Hooray!
The steady march continues! Five of the six planned mini-games are now in working order, scoring and game balancing will be part of the finalization of the game. The game submission is due on June 26th, and it will be very nice to celebrate the completion of this huge project.
Phil continues to pump out amazing artwork and I’m expecting the boys at Warner Bros. to take notice, because I can’t tell much difference in the quality of his work versus the assets they sent us to work with (which we haven’t used!).
I don’t wanna show anymore in-game screenshots before the release of the game at this point, however maybe this will suffice…
My first games related press was in print form today in the Chicago Tribune Local, read the article online HERE. I should thank the author Kimberly Reishus for her efforts and taking the time to speak with me about what I am doing. No doubt about it, it is fun when your efforts get a bit of recognition so this article was pretty exciting.
I think I’ll wait till I have a few more links before creating a “Press” page…haha.
Alright The New Recruit development, for the Warner Bros. Batman flash game contest, is moving right along at a vigorous pace. The final product promises to be a wicked-sweet combination attack of Phil’s inspired artist efforts and all the programming tricks and magic I can conjure.
We’re not ready to reveal the details of the game as a whole, beyond what you may already have gathered from the concept pitch…The game will be a collection of mini-games each based on one of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold super heroes. As an aspiring super hero the player will learn what each canon character has to teach by playing and mastering their game. There will be a unifying theme but I won’t get into that right now.
For now you have this leaked screen-shot to whet your appetite for the final awesome product!
Hi Tony, Loved the article about you in the trib local this morning. Congratulations on your success. What a great story about a great kid doing fun and creative things after graduatiing. No surprise! I left the article out for David, John and Scott to see. One or all of us will be downloading some of your games soon on our iphones. Good luck in the contest! That is not chump change if you win!!! BTW, you look great! Jeni
Battlenoid is an original take on the retro legend Arkanoid and the “breakout” genre. The game features a customizable “Skirmish” mode, 40 levels to master, and a “local” two-player mode.
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In case you haven’t seen or submission: The New Recruit concept pitch.
Phil and I heard today from the organizers of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold flash game contest, that we are now finalists in the competition! Which means we will be creating our flash game in full and submitting it to Warner Bros. for final consideration and hopefully win the grand prize!
It is a huge deal to be able to move on to this phase of the contest, and we will be going for broke to win the grand prize! Stay tuned as I will be keeping this site updated with the latest news from the development of The New Recruit.
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Garrett Fonda 4:15 pm on May 28, 2009 Permalink |
Tony,
Just read this article. Congratulations! Very cool, hope to see more of your games in the future.
Take care,
Fonda