Hello Crush the Castle fans!

The King is looking for some much needed feedback on all things Crush the Castle. Improvements, additions, subtractions, multiplcations, etc.  The King values each and everyone of your comments (good and bad), and looks to the future of the crushing castles.

To give your feedback, head to Crush the Castle Feedback and give him your one must HAVE feature as well as one feature you would like to see CHANGED or REMOVED.

The King thanks each of you for your feedback and wishes everybody happy crushing.

Hello Armor Gamers! It’s that time of year again for Jay is Games Best of Casual Gameplay 2009 awards. Jay is Games reviews the best of online games, and with that said, many of Armor Games’ games have made the list of nominees! So first and foremost, congratulations to our talented group of developers! We would appreciate your support in voting for our developers, who put a lot of hard work in making the highest quality games for everyone to play for free. To make voting a bit easier on you (there are A LOT of entries this year!), we have put together a voting guide with a selection of popular AG games.

Action or Arcade:

• Hedgehog Launch 2 (Jmtb02)
• I Love Traffic (Jmtb02)
• Super Sloth Bomber (Megadev)

Interactive Art or Webtoy:

• How to Raise A Dragon (Gregory Weir)

Interactive Fiction:

• Llama Adventure (Jmtb02)

Physics:

• Crush the Castle (JoeyBetz)
• Fragger (Harito)

Platform:

• This is the Only Level (Jmtb02)

Puzzle:

• Knightfall 2 (Megadev)

Shooter:

• Upgrade Complete (Tony)

Tactical or Strategy:

• Bubble Tanks Tower Defense (Hero Interactive)
• Gemcraft Zero: Gem of Eternity (Gameinabottle)
• Phage Wars 2 (JoeyBetz)
• Warfare 1944 (ConArtists)

Make sure to head on over to Jay is Games, and show some love for Armor Games! You can vote HERE every day until the end of the voting period. Thanks for your support, and again, congratulations to the Armor Games developers!!

Voting ends Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:59PM.

Your very own Jmtb02 & Joey Betz have been nonimated by E4.com for Game Awards. Make sure to vote for their games.

Award for OMG LOL
Achievement Unlocked

Award for Shoot & Defend
Crush the Castle

Calling all gamers! Westwood College where our very own Joey Betz went to college is in need of the gaming community.

They had a bunch of their students create flash games that are now available to be played online. All these game design students are beginner so please keep this in mind when you play the games.

All games can be seen here: http://landing.westwood.edu/gaming-public/

Please comment on this blog post and vote for your favorite 3-games. Make sure to put them in order. (1st, 2nd and 3rd)

This competition is time sensative so make sure to vote today.

Thanks for your help.

-Armor Games Team

Ps. If you have a passion for games and game development I highly recommend you check out this link.

As many of you know, Hero Interactive joined forces with Armor Games in December of 2008 to give our users the opportunity to win a cache of amazing prizes including a Play Station 3! The rules were fun and simple: create an awesome puzzle using Hero Interactive’s game StarShine 2 Puzzle Master and submit it. That’s it!

Congratulations to all five of our lucky winners! Your names and puzzles will be featured on the HI blog and newsletter as well as on the Armor Games blog. You will be contacted about receiving your prizes.

We are very proud of the success of this contest and truly enjoyed playing through all of your puzzles - it was extremely difficult to choose only five. We invite you all to participate in our future contests…anyone can win!

Puzzle Your Way to a PS3

You could win a PS3 just by playing games!

ArmorGames.com is sponsoring Hero Interactive’s latest contest and we want YOU to win a Play Station 3! What do you have to do? It’s simple! Just go to ArmorGames.com and play Hero Interactive’s latest game: StarShine 2: Puzzle Master. Create an awesome puzzle and submit it. That’s it! The top 5 puzzles win!

Prizes:
1st Place/Grand Prize – a Play Station 3
2nd Place – An iPod Touch
3rd, 4th, and 5th Place – An iPod Nano

Be sure to submit your puzzle before Feb. 1st 2009, 11:59 pm U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Here’s what you need to know:
1)You MUST have an ArmorGames account to enter.
2)When submitting your puzzle be sure to enter “contest [Your ArmorGames account name] in the Author field so we can contact you. Be sure to include “contest” followed by a space, and then your ArmorGames.com username. So, for example: if we submitted a puzzle, we’d use “contest HeroInteractive”.
3)You may play and rate puzzles through any portal you wish, not just on armorgames.
4)Create as many puzzles as you like!
5)You may share your puzzles with your friends and family so that they can rate them. Simply send them this link: http://www.herointeractive.com/starshine2/?puzzleID=[insert your puzzle ID# here]
6)Down rating puzzles not created by you in an effort to skew the results will not be tolerated and will result in your entries (all of them!) being disqualified!

How the winners will be selected:
Hero Interactive, LLC will examine the 50 top rated puzzles and decide the winning five entries. Winners’ usernames will be posted on the ArmorGames.com blog as well as the HeroInteractive.com blog. In addition, winners will receive emails at the addresses supplied when they registered with ArmorGames.com.
Judges at HI are looking for creativity as well as fun and solvability. In other words, you won’t win just because your puzzle has tons of objects in it or is mega-hard. Try to think and be original without being ridiculously hard. (P.S. Having 40 green stars all go off at once has been done MANY times.)

Submit the most fun and original puzzle and you could own a PS3! Click HERE to get started!