The Friday Game: Dragon Quest
Chris Donlan picks over a dungeon-crawl that channels some unlikely influences.
Flash
Tail Drift wins Unity Flash contest
Tail Drift has been selected as the winner of Unity's Flash In A Flash Creation Contest, which tasked entrants with porting Unity-authored games to Adobe Flash. Developer Cameron Owen has won $20,000 for his arcade racer, which was selected ahead of more than 500 fellow entrants. More >
The Friday Game: RUN
Grobitbox’s survival horror game explores the dark pleasures of the chase.
The Friday Game: Midas
Why does everything that Wanderlands touches turn to gold?
The Friday Game: Let's Play - Ancient Greek Punishment!
Chris Donlan discovers the classical world’s endless capacity for unpleasantness in this Flash button-masher.
1Unity's Angry Bots available to play in Flash
While the 3D shooter, which was built to help developers learn how to use Unity, has been available on the Chrome Web Store since December 6, it can now be played in-browser with no installation at all. More >
The Friday Game: Sugar, Sugar - The Christmas Special
As the name suggests, Bart Bonte’s physics puzzler is sweet and festive.
The Friday Game: Traal
Chris Donlan discovers a smart and scary dungeon crawler, beyond its Hitchhiker reference.
1Last Guardian producer joins London startup
Following Fumito Ueda's reported resignation from Sony last week, Yoshifusa Hayama, creator of the QTE, has left the Team Ico project for social game dev Bossa. More >
1The Friday Game: Blueprint 3D
Can you put these shattered schematics back together again?
Sony hoping for Vita Flash support
Sony has said that it is in negotiations with Adobe in an attempt to ensure Vita supports Flash. Last month Adobe revealed that it was to cease development of mobile Flash, after apparently giving up in its attempt to create a stable version of its technology for portable devices. More >
The Friday Game: Pursuit Of Hat
Lose yourself – and most of your body – in this likeable Flash puzzler.
The Friday Game: Depict1
Language and play converge in Kyle Pulver’s devious platformer.
2Adobe ceases mobile Flash development
Adobe is ceasing development of Flash for mobile browsers, and will instead focus on native apps and HTML5 after apparently giving up in its attempt to create a stable version of its technology on portable devices. More >
1The Friday Game: Stumped
When it comes to Halloween games, Nitrome’s one step ahead of you, says Chris Donlan.
The Friday Game: KernType
Played The Typing Of The Dead? How about being a typographer, instead?
1Flash gaming: The future
Ending our series on the state of Flash gaming, we find out how 3D and Zynga-style microtransactions may maintain its dominance over the browser.
Flash gaming: Trouble ahead?
Our week on the Flash gaming scene continues with an examination of the threats and competition it faces.
Google launches multi-platform developer tool PlayN
Google has launched PlayN, a tool that compiles a single body of Java source code into versions which run on HTML5, Java, Android and Flash. Described on Google's developer site as an "open-source cross-platform abstraction layer", PlayN uses the existing GWT compiler (Google Web Toolkit) to eliminate any platform-specific calls from your code and replaces them with "tiny, targeted entry point classes that hook into each platform-specific implementation." More >
Flash gaming: Doing deals with Chris Hughes
How much is a Chinese gamer worth? How do you make a $50,000 Flash game? Flash Game License co-founder Chris Hughes blows open the scene.