Archive for March, 2008

Whirled Beta

After getting a friend request from a complete stranger (MySpace style), I logged into Whirled last night–only to find out that it’s no longer in super-top-secret alpha any more (confirmed at Daniel James’ blog). I have pretty favorable feelings towards Three Rings in general. I love Puzzle Pirates, and I love the idea […]

I Dream in Polygons

I have pretty strange dreams.  Some people attribute to eating right before bed, but I’d say it’s more likely an overactive imagination.  Last night I dreamed in polygons.  Sort of.  I essentially dreamed up a new idea for a game.  Rather than playing the game in the dream, though, I was actually in the game–a […]

The Paid Search Experiment: Another Reason Why MochiAds Rock

Remember that first website you made back in the 90’s? Did you ever join a web ring? I did. I joined lots of them. While I was in middle school, I’m pretty sure at different points I had an Aliens fan page in a sci-fi web ring, a “download movie quotes […]

How much do we get paid (hourly) for flash games?

For most flash game designers, making the games is a hobby.  It’s nice that there’s some monetary reward possible now, but for a lot of us we’d make the games anyway.  I’ve been doing casual games in some form or another (Shockwave, Java, now AS3) for a few years now–but only since I’ve discovered things […]