I actually heard this news on Flashkit some time ago, but not to digress have a gander at the competition presented by Miniclip, the makers of the Heli Attack series. This is rare opportunity for all game designers to show off their talents to the world because Miniclip has announced a game competition!! The competition asks you to make a quality game not just a pretty game and there are specifics that need to be followed like it needs to be under 3kb, with no bigger than 800 x 600 dimensions and it needs to be coded for flash player 5, 6, 7, shockwave player 8.5 or java. The genre is totally upto you but you need to be 16 to enter! These games need to be fully complete with no nudity/violence and it goes without saying no stickman games! How they will define violence is questionable I guess, seeing as they did make the Heli Attack series, but it’s a risk that only you can take.

The winner (and maybe some runner-ups) will recieve a $3000 contract for their game!! You should read the terms and conditions about the contract and where to send your game file (.swf, .dcr, .jar only!!).

So good luck but not too much luck as I’ll be sure to enter too!

It ends on 18th of November so we have two months people!

Lame post… but I was on my way home and while crossing a suspiciously empty street I just happened to look down to avoid the blistering heat on my face and behold before my eyes I saw not one but three ‘adult’ magazines just lying on the road. As I looked around for an awkwardly placed box with the flaps on the outside I thought that Snake is getting wasteful these days… or is he? It was an empty street after all. To avoid the same fate I ran screaming down the road. Actually it was just too damn hot too run or scream, so I just waddled home.

Great optimisation tips for both actionscripters and non-actionscripters by Tom Moor. He’s also listed a great set of game physics links that are worth at least a glance and it’s nice to see his blog with Jonny Mccormack about the development of their Flash racing game.

Andreescu and Gaivoronski features a very cool navigation system made up of paper strips. A simple, though inefficient, system. I like it alot. Not really much else to say but they have a cool gallery fitting of their site and skills as architects.

“Ceci n’est pas du papier” or as Mac Translate translates it to be “This is not paper” has a very cool and interesting paper look, but sadly from the brief look I had of it the content wasn’t as good as the site looked, although the ‘product design’ section is nice but doesn’t really strike innovation in design.