Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

• By Rich

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  christmas, html5, platformer

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  Clients

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  Yeti Dash HTML5 Mobile Browser Game

  29th Jan 2013

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  Back before Christmas (you remember Christmas don’t you? it seems so long ago now) we finished an HTML5 mobile browser game for the agency BiteCp as part of a Christmas campaign.

  In Yeti Dash you choose from 3 characters: a Viking, a penguin or a snow leopard and control them across a horizontally scrolling snow bound level all the while being chased by a Yeti. The level is full of ice to speed you up, fish for you to throw at the yeti to slow him down and various things to avoid. And should the yeti catch you.. well, you have to endure some yeti smooching (yes, for real).

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• By Rich

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  BBC, christmas, kiwi.js, onGameStart, presentation

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  RealTime Kiwi Fusion Christmas Video

  23rd Nov 2012

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  A quick summary of what’s going on right now:

  Realtime Contest

  First of all we’re happy to be one of the judges in the Realtime xRTML 3 contest that is now running. As their name implies Realtime provide some very smart web tech for real time push based messaging. This has massive application in HTML5 based multiplayer gaming. From a simple shared cursor experience to a proper full-on game. There are plenty of code examples on their site – and don’t be put off by the ‘enterprise’ focus either, the free tier has plenty of room to power a popular online game.

  Talking at the BBC Fusion Games Summit

  I’m pleased to be talking at the BBC Fusion Games Summit next week. I’ll be covering some of the stark realities of building for the mobile web and things to take into consideration when commissioning or pitching for HTML5 game projects. Although my talk is sold-out, if you’re attending the event then please come and say hello!

  Sign-up for the Kiwi.js launch

  We are getting increasingly close to a release of Kiwi.js, our HTML5 game framework built specifically for mobile browsers. It would be great if you could sign-up on our launch site and help to spread the word. The moment it goes live you’ll be first to know and we may even be throwing in some special offers too 🙂

  My onGameStart presentation is up on Vimeo

  Back in September I gave a talk at onGameStart about making money from your HTML5 games. The talk was called ‘Insert Coin to Continue’ and much to my dismay they filmed it all and put it online 🙂 So feel free to watch me nervously trying to explain how to get your game sponsored. Despite my obvious nerves in public speaking the feedback I’ve had has been great, so it was worth it! Of course you should also check out the rest of the great videos, especially Rendering Voxel Worlds by Jonas Wagner, if only to see his priceless reaction when his brand new MacBook Pro falls off the lecturn 🙂

  Storming Christmas Cards

  We just had a bunch of company Christmas cards printed (by the ever excellent moo.com) featuring a cute new piece of pixel art by Ilija. We’ve had more printed than we need to send to clients and don’t want the rest to go to waste. So drop me a line with your name and postal address, and tell us what your all-time favourite game is (and why). Come December we’ll shove one into the mail for you, subject to quantity!

   

• By Rich

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  balls, christmas, game, one-click

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  Games

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  Play Jingle Balls – Our Christmas gift to you all :)

  22nd Dec 2011

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  I felt like making a “Game in a Day” and this little Christmas mini-game pinged out the other end as the result. 6 hours last night, about the same again tonight and we’re done. And putting me to shame Ilija did the graphics in just 1 hour, on a lunch break at work. Damn his lightning fingers 🙂

  You get 3 clicks (1 click per round). When you click it explodes a snow-flake which scales up in size a little bit and then fizzles out. If it touches anything while it exists, that item explodes, and thus a chain reaction occurs. Basically see how many items you can destroy per round with your single click.

  Ok so it’s not exactly Skyrim, but see how high a score you can get anyway 🙂 and enjoy the cute music and fx from Olley Neale, who literally composed them in the space of a few minutes notice as a result of a tweet I sent around this morning. Ahh the power of twitter!

  Anyway have fun and if you celebrate it, Happy Christmas!

  (hit the jump to play the game, embedded below)

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• By Rich

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  christmas, demo

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  Happy Christmas. Here’s my Flash Christmas card for you all.

  22nd Dec 2008

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  Well how could I not create a little Flash Christmas demo? 🙂

  Click the present to open.

  

  Music taken from an Atari ST demo by Baggio. Icons by Delekt. Code by me. Packaged for you. (it’s 500KB so let it load.. and apologies if it grinds on slower browsers / PCs)

  Happy Christmas everyone.

  Rich