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I am going to start this post with a number, and that number is 2,103. Why that number? that is the number of hits that my flash game, XenoTrader: Protector has received since midnight. Now, I know that doesn't seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things, but when you consider that this blog has received about 665 hits since it was created in December, it all of a sudden seems like a whole lot.
So now I'm not sure what I am going to do! I have never had a site run the risk of getting wanged before. But if things continue at their present rate, that little flash game has less than a day or two to live. My site host says I have a grand total of about five gigs of traffic allowed per month, and in the last 16 hours that little game has eaten about one fifth of that.
Needless to say, this sudden attention has made me go a little wild about creating flash games. I want to be making them twenty four hours a day. I want to get hopped up on amphetamines and make flash games five times faster than anyone else, ever. I know that this surge of interest inthe game isn't going to last, but it certainly demonstrates the power of a good alliance with someone. All I did was agree to add a link to Albino Black Sheep to my game page, and BAM! Suddenly people are playing my game.
Okay, I'm a little excited, time to relax. Oh, and in the time it took me to type this my hit count jumped to 2,193. Thank you to every single one of those 90 people!
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I forgot to mention..... HOLY CRAP!
I was going to mention this but somehow it slipped my mind. I installed Unreal Tournament 2004 a little while ago and have been quite enjoying it. However one thing that I haven't seen discussed much is the fact that the game is just slightly larger than a text file containing the entire calculated value of PI. That's right, I said it, UT2K4 takes up an infinite amount of hard drive space, plus a little extra.
Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a little, but it really does take up something like six gigs of space, which is a pretty hefty amount. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I recently saw a post over at SlashDot about a team that made a fully 3D, and quite beautiful, first person shooter that can be downloaded in less time than it took you to read this run-on sentence. If you want to check it out it can be found at theprodukkt.com. A word of warning, though, the game itself requires some pretty insane specs from your machine, so it might not run on your computer if your rig isn't specifically designed for gaming.
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I would like to start out today's post with a couple fun links. First i one that was sent to me this morning, it's good clean fun that will send your soul straight to hell without passing go, and certainly without collecting one hundred dollars. I present the Jesus Christ Action Figure!
The second link is a little closer to my heart. Anyone who knows me knows that I have an affinity for retro games. I have two working original NES systems at home, and on occasion have been known to fire up a little Mario action. That's why when I saw this clip of a guy playing the Super Mario Brothers music and sound effects on his guitar, I wept salty tears of joy. (Video is in WMV format)
Now on to the meat of the post. Last night I was browsing through the forums over at FlashKit when I came across a post from someone who was looking to build a turn based fighting game. This got me reminiscing about a game I played a few years ago. Of course, this is not really a difficult thing to accomplish, honestly. I have seen traffic signs, scraps of loose paper, and even assorted fruit that have got me thinking about the games I've played. But the game I started thinking about specifically was actually a series of games put out by a company calle BattleMail.
Their games were highly addictive, easy to play, had a great look to them, and are completely gone. I tried to go to their site, battlemail.com, and all I got was one of those pages that people put up to squeeze a few extra advertising dollars out of their domain name without having to provide any content. What the hell happened to them?? They were going strong, they had BattleMail Kung-Fu, BattleMail Soccer, BattleMail Jousting, hell, it seemed like they were on their way up when I last saw them. And now nothing.
So I am planning to track down the creators and ask them what happened. I think there might be a story there. Who knows, maybe there is some juicy tales of betrayal, or murder, or a pact with Satan that went horribly wrong! Or perhaps there's just a tale of mismanagement and .Com dreams gone awry.
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Well, we were hit by quite the snowstorm today and all over the place it seems that drivers have completely forgotten the lessons they learned over the winter. It's amazing, its as if the very instant the snow starts to melt everything they know about stopping distances and acceptable winter speeds is erased. So now that there is snow on the ground again people are sliding into ditches, poles, fences, and each other as if they were still wearing the very clothes they have on in their drivers license photo.
So, in order to do my part to help prevent traffic fatalities, here is a list of flash games I have found over the last while, hopefully this will keep you off the streets, you maniac.
Defend Your Castle
Link: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/castle.php
This first one isn't much in the way of graphics, and it starts pretty slow, but once it gets going it is actually a lot of fun. A word of warning, this game was specially designed to give you carpal tunnel syndrome within 10 minutes. Put on some sort of wrist guard or something, because by level 14 in this game there is no mercy.
Monkey Fight
Link: http://www.miniclip.com/monkeysnowfight.htm
There might be other games at Miniclip.com, but I wouldn't know it. This is the only game I play there. Despite the fact that it can often be near impossible to actually get a game started, I often find myself longing to drop a banana bomb onto some unsuspecting chimp's head.
Street Fighter, Kung Fu, and Castlevania
Link: http://flashkof.free.fr/
Okay, I saw this guy's games on a message board, and I was really impressed. I couldn't get the Kung Fu game to work, but both of the others were pretty damned impressive if you ask me.
Beer Dude 1.0
Link: http://www.daveheinzel.com/beerdude/
Back in the day I created a little title called Beer Run. It came in second in an international game programming contest. I have won nothing since. Despite that tiny lump of bitterness in my shriveled, blackened heart, I still have an affinity for games that revolve around the barley and hops theme. This little game is a very simple platformer that can be pretty addictive. At one point I was even on the high score list, but that was before a couple people decided they were going to make playing this game their life's legacy.
Two Kingdoms
Link: http://www.twokingdoms.com
Last, but certainly not least, is a game called Two Kingdoms. This game is set in the world of Warcraft and although it isn't quite finished yet, it is definitely something worth checking out. Terrific graphics, a good game engine, and a slick interface make this game one to keep your eye on.
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