In light of the recent tragic earthquake in Haiti, Armor Games has pledged 50% of all Crush the Castle proceeds from this week to be donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund as part of Apps for Haiti Week. Apps for Haiti will run from January 18-22. You can download Crush the Castle from iTunes and support the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund by clicking HERE.

Thank you Armor Games for your support to help the Haitian people in this time of need.

UPDATE #1 : $850 was raised on Monday to help Haiti relief. Let’s try and raise even MORE money today. Thanks to everyone who is supporting the cause.

UPDATE #2 : $740 was raised on Tuesday. So far the grand total raise for Haiti is $1,590.

UPDATE #3 : $686 was raised on Wednesday. Total raised is now over $2,000!!

UPDATE #4 : $756 was raised on Thursday.

UPDATE #5 : $810 was raised on Friday, bringing the total contribution to $3,842!

Thanks again to everyone who participated. I’ll be making the donation to the Red Cross Haiti Relief fund next week. (I’ll post confirmation once the money has been donated)

Donation has been made (CLICK HERE)

Please continue to keep the People of Haiti in your thoughts and prayers as they continue to rebuild their lives from this tragedy.

My good friend Kevin Willson directed a video that was submitted to the ‘Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl contest. The video is now one of the 6 Finalist. The name of his video is ‘Casket’ and its by FAR the best video in the contest. Click through to watch the video and vote for it. You can cast a vote everyday between now and Jan 31st.

It’s been a while since the blog was update, but we do have a few exciting announcements!

1.) Our Armor Office has been officially Knighted . They Knights were a grand gift from a great friend across the Pond. (Thanks Tony)

2.) Like Crushing Castles? Crush the Castle just got approved on the App store. It hasn’t gone live in their system yet, but you should be able to download it in a few hours. We’ll update the post once its live.

3.) Our very own Jmtb02 got married to his High School sweet heart Carlie. The wedding was in Napa Valley and they are now on a 2-week honeymoon to the outback. Make sure to stop by his page and congratulate them. Here’s some more pictures from the wedding.

Our goal is to update our blog on a more regular basis so stay tuned for lots of exciting information.

-The Armor Team

Every single update I’ve applied to my Dell Desktop running Vista has resulted in crashing the system. The updates have NEVER installed correctly and I’m always forced to do a system restore. Instead of throwing my PC off the roof, I decided to write a Haiku. Enjoy!

Vista, Why O Why?
Install the upgrade, You CRASH!!!!!
Return to Sender!!!

I challenge all those who are frustrated with Vista to come up with your own Haiku and leave it in the comments.

At the COB today I will choose my favorite and the person will WIN a free 5-pack of stickers and your very own Ball Revamped Squishy.

Just wanted to say it was great to meet a bunch of aweseome developers and portals this last weekend. Here’s a link to the photos we took.

Click Here

I recently had the privledge of going to Peru to help distribute Wheel Chairs to those in need. The organization we partnered with was ‘Free Wheelchair Mission‘, and they have a goal to distribute 20 Million Wheel Chairs worldwide.

The typical cost of Wheelchair is $100+, but FWM developed a Wheelchair that cost $52 to build and this includes shipping to a 3rd world country.

I would encourage everyone to watch the video on their homepage and consider giving $52 to provide a Wheelchair for someone in need.

Here’s a 2 Minute highlight video from the Peru trip (Click Here)
*Video produced by Compass Films

Additional Photos from the trip (Click Here)

If you are planning to attend the ‘Flash Gaming Summit‘ on March 22nd, send us an e-mail and let us know. (Or you can leave a comment on this post)

Please take a moment to fill out our first ever User Feedback Survey. It will only take a few minutes and it’s completely anonymous. Take our survey.

Talking to a friend recently about my work he came out with somewhat of a revelation that hadn’t occurred to me before. Talking about Warfare 1917, he said to me:

“You know what I like about it? I can play it while I’m on the phone at work.”

Sure enough, you can. The gameplay doesn’t require the attentiveness of the average action game. His comment got me thinking, do people like playing games where they’re not required to give it their full attention ALL the time? The popular casual games of the last while seem to back the theory up, look at Desktop Tower Defense, Sonny, Age of War. Interact with them a little, then sit back and watch the result. I know with all of the aforementioned games I set off with the intention of only playing a while but the simplicity and lack of effort on my part keeps me playing for hours.

What  do you guys do while playing these types of games?

Are you a fan of these minimal interaction required type games? Why?

Angel’s and Demon’s is having a ‘Path to Illumination‘ contest. In the contest you have to complete several levels in various flash games. One of their games is called ‘Air’ and it draws some similarities to Jmtb02’s hit game ‘Compulse.

I’m partial and biased when it comes to Jmtb02’s games, so I’ll let you be the judge. Play both games and leave a comment letting us know what you think.

Compulse

Air

Play Compulse

Play Air
*Click ‘Play Practice Puzzle’
*Then click ‘Air’