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31 March, 2008 | No comments

Future Plans

Tomorrow is the 1st of April, and almost one quarter of this year has passed. Time flew very quickly for me -maybe because was working so hard to finish Supernova 2 (the final game should be ready very soon) and also pondering what to do after it.

I have still a project on stand-by - Tower of Destiny. However I’m thinking also about learning Flash/Director to make a online game. I have what I think to be a pretty cool idea that all Magic Stones fans will surely like, a sort of online rpg card game. The advantages of a online-only game are lots, for example multiplayer possibility, no need to store the data on your pc, possibility to play the game anywhere (even at work! eheh) and also the micropayment thing, so that you can pay only for how much you play the game (have still to decide the details, but this would allow much more flexibility on payment methods).

However I’m not saying that TOD will become waporware: I’ll resume working on it at same time as the online game. Just don’t ask me release dates, because I really have no clue, it’s going to be a very BIG game :)

31 March, 2008 | No comments

Casual Gamer Chick: Astraware Releases First Symbian Games

Astraware BoardgamesAstraware has released Astraware Boardgames for Symbian S60 and UIQ smartphones. Astraware Boardgames consists of eight different board games including Reversi, Chess, and Backgammon.  All of the boardgames have been designed for casual play and contain three different levels of game play. New players can start out easy and work their way up to the harder levels.

Astraware Boardgames  allows players to play their way, either against the computer or against their friends. Players can also customize the rules of the game. If you have come accustom to playing checkers a certain way, then you can keep playing that way and not have to change your playing habits.

Astraware Boardgames is available from www.astraware.com for $19.95.

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31 March, 2008 | No comments

Game Producer: And We Have a Winner

We have a winner for the FPS Creator X10 contest.

The idea of the contest was to guess what toy I got from an easter egg. There were plenty of well though answers such as these witty guesses:

“one of those gooey hands that you can sling against walls and such” (Code_wizard)

Heh, that’s exactly what I call them

“small deck of cards” (ElementCy)

Heh, inside easter egg? Oh well, I guess there are small cards out there :)

“did the egg was empty?” (eco)

Good one, but unfortunately wrong.

The TOY refers to

The 3D Game created from FPS
[after exporting it from FPS]

and EGG refers to

FPS Creator

This time nickname lostin3d got bit too philosophic here…

“pokemon plush doll (because you obviously are a fan of dem, wakokokokokokokok) (celeron)”

Fine guess, but unfortunately wrong ;)

There’s more fun guesses, and I recommend you guys go take a look at them in the contest announcement.

The right answer was pirate. It was a 50g Peter Pan easter egg (tasted yammy) and there was a pirate inside it. micjwelch guessed right first, and got a boxed copy of FPS Creator X10. The rest of you gotta go to FPS Creator X10 website and buy it from there.

Thanks everybody for your participation.

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31 March, 2008 | No comments

Game Producer: Mahjonged Review

Mahjonged bought a sponsored review. Mahjonged.com is a Mahjong website where you can also play free Mahjong online. In this review I go through some changes that the site could consider in order to generate more ad income. These tips can be applied by any gaming site that intends to generate ad revenue.

Changing ad types & placement of ads
The first page for Mahjonged.com looks pretty fine. What comes to generating more income, I’d suggest that the site could have:

I would estimate that by merely making some quick changes (such as the newsletter option, placing additional ads on different pages) this site can increase the number of clicks which lead to increased ad revenue. The placement & colors of different ads are important, and spending a bit of time optimizing the ads can lead to quite big changes in income when traffic to the site is good.

If you liked this entry, feel free to visit GameProducer.net to read more similar articles.

31 March, 2008 | No comments

ВРЕМЯ — ДЕНЬГИ ? …

КОГДА  ГОВОРЯТ : “ВРЕМЯ - ДЕНЬГИ”,
                                                                               
МНЕ  ВСЕГДА  ХОЧЕТСЯ  ПОПРАВИТЬ :  

НЕТ,  ЭТО  НЕ  ТАК.
                                                          
ВРЕМЯ — НЕ ДЕНЬГИ.
                                                     
ВРЕМЯ  ДОРОЖЕ  ДЕНЕГ.

ВРЕМЯ — ЭТО  САМА  ЖИЗНЬ”                        

31 March, 2008 | No comments

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31 March, 2008 | No comments

Casual Gamer Chick: PopCap Hires Marketing VP

PopCap GamesPopCap Games has hired Ben Rotholtz as the VP of marketing. VP of marketing was a newly created position and Mr. Rotholtz did not replace anybody. Mr. Rotholtz will be in charge of all of the marketing facets PopCap Games has in place, such as the Web site, advertising, public relations, marketing and promotional efforts.

“Building a marketing team at PopCap is one of those dream opportunities that come along once in a lifetime, if that,” stated Rotholtz. “This is a highly creative and gifted company with superb, quality products that have succeeded thus far on word-of-mouth and non-stop positive critiques from the media. The challenge of raising the profile of PopCap and its games worldwide is truly inspiring and energizing – I can’t wait to get started!”

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31 March, 2008 | No comments

GameZebo: The Price is Right Review

Casual gamer, come on down! You're the next contestant on The Price is Right. Yep, one of the most popular television game shows has gone interactive with Ludia's first computer game offering, The Price is Right, that looks and plays like the real deal - though without Drew Carey or Bob Barker.

31 March, 2008 | No comments

Sim City 4

Oh yeah, and this weekend we all played Sim City 4.  I think I probably played for four hours straight at one point.  Sim City 4 is the DEVIL!  It's a good thing it's not on my laptop (yet!) else I'd get fired shortly.

31 March, 2008 | No comments

Casual Review: Designing Hoyle Enchanted Puzzles

A special occasion demands a feature article, and here it is, a designer’s article on the new casual game from Boomzap Games: Hoyle Enchanted Puzzles. It’s the journey of a wizard’s apprentice that takes you through nine games in one! « Next entries