Here's the posts for: December, 2007

Game Development — 541 Comments 28
Dec 07

Sonny!

Hey guys,

I’ve just finished adding the final touches to Sonny a moment ago and have uploaded it for everyone to enjoy!

You can play it here: http://armorgames.com/play/505/sonny

Sonny is an epic RPG game following the story of an unfortunate man who wakes up finding himself turned into a Zombie. Fight for your life in the colorful and twisted world of Sonny!

The game includes 31 levels and 6 bosses, and an original soundtrack and voice acting. At the start it is really simple, but it will start to get hard towards the end. A lot of effort has gone into this, and I hope you like it!

If you have anything to say, drop me an email, or write me something, I’m always listening to YOU guys as the players. After all, who else was the game made for?

Cheers and a Happy New Year!

Krin J

Random Musing — 5 Comments 28
Dec 07

Another Addicting Flash Game

Armor PicrossI rarely get really addicted to Flash Games, but there are a few that have me HOOKED for hours. The latest added to this pile is actually one of our games, Armor Picross 2. I really got attached to the last version of Armor Picross, but this game has definitely taken the cake.

The objective of Armor Picross is to etch out an image with just a few basic hints. You are given numbers along the edge of a border, which indicate what group of squares exist in the grid below. Like inverted Sudoku, this game just sucked me in like crazy. I have already beaten all the Easy levels, and I am moving on to the harder levels. Cheers to Kenney and Gabs for this delightful game.

There have been a few other games that have really drawn me in. Here are my top five most addicting Flash Games, ever:

1: Desktop Tower Defense: This game is just incredibly addicting, and is definitely the best Tower Defense game. What strikes this game as so amazing is that it has really, really balanced gameplay. The different game modes also make me play the game several times over, which makes the lifespan of this game amazing.

2: R!SE: The sleeper hit of 2006, R!SE is an beautiful game. Toss your hand-made character in the air, trying to bounce off of springs and other things to get to the top. Denvish made an amazing game here.

3: Dolphin Olympics 2: Spin and climb to the top of the universe, performing tricks to climb higher and higher. The same idea as R!SE, but with some very interesting gaming concepts and trickiness.  I am constantly frustrated by the fact that my girlfriend is so much better than me at this game.

4: Armor Snowball: I didn’t get hooked into this game until much later after it was released, but this game is extremely addictive. Try to roll the largest snowball you can, picking up people, snowmen, and dogs. I am not a pro at this game by any means, but it is still a lot of fun.

5: 3d Logic/Armor Cube: I didn’t quit on this game for quite some time, so I found myself exhausted after the two hours it took to complete levels 1 – 30! This game is a simple 3d connect-the-lines sort of game. It looks like it should be way too simple, but by level 15 I found myself cringing in agony, as I had to pull my roommate into helping me out.

If you have the chance, definitely take a gander at these and have a good time. Anything you would recommend?

Site Updates — 1 Comment 28
Dec 07

Top-11 Free Brain Games

Switched (AOL Blog) had an article on the top FREE brain games, and ‘Four Second Fury’ made #8 on the list.

Who knew exercising your brain could take so little time. (4-seconds to be exact)

To read the article: Click Here

Random Musing — 4 Comments 22
Dec 07

500 Degree’s!

That’s how HOT our plates were during our annual Armor Games Christmas Dinner. (I say annual but in all honesty its our first Christmas dinner ever :)

Ruth Chris’s Steak House serves all their steaks on a plate thats heated to 500 degrees and comes with sizzling butter. The food was amazing and it felt good to celebrate together as a team! I know this will be the first of many joyous occasions together.

Check out photos here

To our team members who couldn’t make it (Tony & Krin) we missed you guys.

-Daniel

Game Development / Game Releases — 1 Comment 21
Dec 07

Trifecta

horsesSo the Armorkins launched THREE games today! Tony launched the game Santastic Santa, Luka has launched Be The Santa, and James launched his game, LazerBeamz! Happy holidays to everyone!

If you need help on LaserBeamz, you can visit the walkthrough page!

What do you guys think of these games?

Site Updates — 7 Comments 20
Dec 07

Category Pages (Armor Games 2.0)

Here’s another page from the re-design. (This page is for the various categories we will have on our site; such as Action, Arcade, Adventure, etc)

Highlights include the following:*Featured Game Section; Only the Best Games earn this spot
*A list of 9 games that are popular in that category
*The ability to browse the entire category by ‘Date Submitted, Name, Views, and Score’
*STILL NO POP UPS

Category Pages

Comments?

-Daniel

Office News — 7 Comments 19
Dec 07

XO Laptop Visits the Office

XO LaptopThese little laptops are adorable, and definitely go towards a good cause. As part of the “One Laptop per Child” campaign, a donation of $400 will donate one laptop to a child in a developing nation, and one to yourself! Armor Games recently donated and received one of the first of these small, children-sized laptops.

I have to say, as a $200 laptop, these things are pretty robust. A little unintuitive at first due to it’s own unique operating system, it becomes very easy to use after opening up a few programs. It has built-in wifi, the ability to reach the internet and other computers, and is loaded with tons of programs. The screen is vibrant, but I found out that it can be used with the LCD backlight off in a well-lit room. The most amazing thing on here is the ability to use a program similar to GarageBand on the mac, with the ability to make your own music from premade samples. I am also a huge fan of the “Virtual Tape Measure” program, which measures the distance between two laptops. It’s amazing.

Newgrounds.com also recently purchased one of these laptops, and hopefully you will too! It would still make a nice Christmas present for a friend or child, and would contribute to a great cause.

Site Updates — 18 Comments 18
Dec 07

Beta-Testers Needed

I’m looking for 100 people to help me beta-test the new website. Beta-testing would involved the following.

*Playing Games on the site
*Rating and Leaving Game Comments
*Posting in the Forums
*etc

If you are interested, send me an e-mail and I can set you up with access to the new site.

Daniel {at} ArmorGames.com

Cheers,
Daniel

Game Development — 1 Comment 14
Dec 07

Juggling Games

And before you get yourselves excited, unfortunately, I’m not talking about a game where you have to Juggle stuff :p

This past week I’ve been working simultaneously on 4 games, it’s exhilarating. For most of the Time, I’ve been working on Dans latest request, Armor Academy, which I feel has turned out great. As well as that I’ve been preparing the Cattlepult players pack (which has some major changes and improvements over the first) and as well as those I’ve created an awesome Christmas Platform game engine which will feel incredibly familiar to anyone who has played Super Mario Bros 1 for the Nes. I’ve even programmed it in a way similar to how those Genius programmers of the late 80′s squeezed the power out of the Nes, by building levels in dynamic scrolling tiles. I’m incredibly excited about this one and can see it being a major hit with the flash community.

There will be another blog post soon with how they’ve done.

Duke of Danger,
Tony

Santa Game Preview

Game Development / Random Musing — 3 Comments 13
Dec 07

Santa’s coming to town…

Screenshot.…to put presents under your tree. “There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear) to handle Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15 percent of the total — 378 million, according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes.“. So how does he do it? I think we’ll never know but at least we can try to imagine. You get to try it in the next game I’m making. Take the role of Santa Claus, eat cookies and give presents while avoiding loud floors and staying on carpets. Also avoiding lights and other things that can expose you! Which, of course, can’t happen. Ever never. Have you ever saw the real Santa? Thought so. He’s even better than Sam Fisher and Solid Snake combined. Yeah, oh yeah, that’s right…

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