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2:00PM David Wildgoose | Your Friday afternoon timewaster today is a cute yet macabre puzzler in which you play Death.
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Flash Fridays: Bloody Fun Day
2:00PM David Wildgoose | Your Friday afternoon timewaster today is a cute yet macabre puzzler in which you play Death.
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Learn How To Make Your Own Shmup!
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Kongregate, the online community/portal dedicated to playing and developing games, is furthering the “democratization” of game development with Kongregate Labs. Using the simple-as-its-name-implies side-scrolling shmup Shoot! as a foundation, Labs features an ongoing series of tutorials (or *groan* “shootorials”) that help you, the little person, learn how to make your own shooter. You’ll get a primer on designing controls, scrolling backdrops, collision detection and so much more. And if shooter creation fame isn’t enough to light a fire under you, Kongregate is handing out cold hard cash to the best shootorials-based user created game. Play Shoot! if you want — the fun lasts many, many seconds — but then read on to learn about Flash game development with handy illustrated examples. We’re hard at work on our own “Dude Huge” shmup, currently known as Cliffydius. Watch for it! Kongregate Labs [Kongregate] More »What Gaming Needs: More ‘World’ Games?
6:30AM Maggie Greene | Chris Plante has posted a plea over at GameSetWatch — one for bringing more global entertainment to the West (well, America specifically). His idea? Some sort of portal that will be able to showcase games from all over the world, dragging American gamers kicking and screaming into acknowledging foreign countries that are outside of East Asia. Interesting concept, and one that could theoretically be implemented right now: More »
