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"Potshot is the quick little game you have been waiting for."
A brainchild of Mambazo, who has been working on it for several months now, Potshot is a neat multiplayer turn-based tactics game that runs in your browser, and features a bunch of cute pixel art graphics!
Ammo - Pistols - SMGs - Rifles - Armor - Frag & Flash Grenades - Medikits - Explosive Barrels and more!
Give it a go! 
Dino Run is Pixel Jam's most popular game. Infact it is a free flash multiplayer game. You control a Dino escaping extinction, Play single player, Multiplayer and reach amazing running speeds in this popular platform racing game. This game combines classic pixels and complex pixel effects together.
Link: http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/
Pros: Fun, Lasts a little, multiplayer, pixel, graphics, features.
Cons: Sometimes there aren't many matches going on, may not work if your computer is sluggish and super slow, other than that it is a very good game.
Nitrome has a new platform game out and it looks and plays as well as all the Nitrome games always do. The pixels by Markus Heinel are all cute and very well made. This one contains twenty levels that only get tougher and tougher. All you must do is escape the caves before they crumble. Fun!
Hello everyone!
Today I've uploaded the second beta of my new game called Assalor. It is a real-time strategy that is pixeled and programmed by me. I am looking for suggestions, comments and bug-finds :)
You can download the second beta here: http://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=7925 or here http://cid-e981b54003672382.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Openbaar/Assalor.zip
or simply watch a match played by me on Youtube here:
Have fun playing and please tell me what to improve. Thanks!
Canabalt is a fun little Flash game made by AdamAtomic using his flixel library. In the game, you control a running man as he makes his 'daring escape', presumably from the futuristic robots that can be seen destroying the city in the background. All you have to do is press the X or C key at the right times to jump over obstacles and to leap to the next rooftop, which gets pretty challenging after a while. The audio and visuals are quite good and do a great job at creating a sense of urgency. Give it a try.
Jay is Games is sponsoring another game competition. First Prize is US$1,000.
Design a game that incorporates a given theme (see link). It doesn't have to be complex nor large in scope. You may use any browser-based technology platform you are comfortable with (Flash, Unity, Shockwave, Javascript, etc.).
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/08/game_design_competition_6.php
The deadline for entries is
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:59PM (GMT-5:00).
So, start the brainstorming, pixelling and coding ...!
Manning Krull's latest project, Toxic Sonic Zombie Massacre, has been released. The game includes 3 playable characters from the Toxic Sonic band, as well as another 3 hidden characters, and plenty more secrets, which you may find the code to upon viewing some of Manning Krull's latest submissons here. Everything is entirely pixelled, and done so nicely.
For those interested or wanting to take a look, Go HERE.
Thats right... This year the company that got Great Giana Sisters off the shelves in the 80's, are now making their own version. Oh the sweet irony. Maybe this time the brothers really are history? The game features heavily updated graphics and animation as well as remixes of the classic Chris Hülsbeck masterpieces. Check out the official homepage and Spellbound's (in german) homepage.
The PAX 10 is a showcase of independent games to be exhibited at the Penny Arcade Expo. Taking submissions until May 9th, our group of 50 industry experts will cull the selection of games into what they collectively feel are the ten best in regard to gameplay and overall fun-factor. Click here for more information.
No, its not a speedrun, but its the kind of fanservice we love.
Needless to say, don't watch it if you don't want to get spoilers.
(German version avaliable here).
From PopCap:
Channel your Peggle Fever into something great and help create the next version of Peggle. You could win some great prizes in the process!
In an effort to celebrate the entertainment masterminds of our industry, your pals at IGN.com com have assembled the ultimate list of creative game geniuses. The list is not complete yet but check it out: The Top 100 Game Creators of All Time.
I'm sure most of you have seen badassbill's piece in the gallery. I just found it kinda cool to see it show up in the news.
Now I'm giddy as a school girl. Dreams do come true. 
From Andrew McClure comes Jumpman, a maddeningly fun platformer that starts out simple but becomes increasingly mind-boggling the farther you progress.
What would The Dark Knight look like if it was a NES game, and not a Batman movie?
Find out here ;)
Its a fake NES game intro, made by an animator called Macbee.
I found a few of the image, and I expect them to be very good reduxes, not pixel art, but still its fun to watch :)
A fun and addicting game where you have to find the right view in a 3D space to form a pixelated image.
Play Coign of Vantage
Link on the review page. Just click the screenshot to play.
Download here. Use the WASD or arrow keys to walk, press space to choose between weapons, move the mouse to look, press the left mouse button to shoot and press the right mouse button to open doors. Esc ends the game.
A friend of mine linked me to this, a group of coders will be releasing a web based massive multi-player game maker. This caught my attention, I have a sudden urge to try and make Terra into a web based MMO.
Definitely something worth checking out and keeping an eye on. Metaplace is currently in closed alpha testing.
For more info see the following link:
http://www.station.sony.com/girl/
And welcome to any kotakuists new to the joint - have a look around! There are tons of great pixel art to be found and seen :)
Ludum Dare 10 is coming! Ludum Dare is a regular community driven game development competition. The goal is, given a theme and 48 hours, to develop a game from scratch. Ludum Dare aims to encourage game design experimentation, and provide a platform to develop and practice rapid game prototyping.
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Rules & Stuff: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/wiki/start
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IRC: #ludumdare on irc.afternet.org
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Dec. 7-14th - Registration and Theme Voting
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Dec. 14 at 7pm PST and runs until the 16th at 7pm PST
The Cal Band performed a video game medley at a football game against Washington State. It includes Pong, Tetris, Pokemon, Mortal Kombat, and Super Mario Bros. It's upside-down, but you get the picture.
Pixel your own 550x400 mazes - and play them!
Play the Tutorial first - it's a pixel maze Mario style. Find the blue dot to win.
Check it.
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Can't afford the Orange box? That's ok. You can play the Flash version of Portal for free - and it's just as good as the original! It even saves your progress. Check it out!
Game Description: Fire once to open up a portal and again at the location you want to reach. Walk through one portal and you'll come out the 2nd. Use that to escape each room etc. This is the flash version of the Valve game portal.
Check it out!
Are you looking to waste a few hours running around a pixel fantasy land?
Well indie game maker Nifflas might have just what you're after. He makes addictive adventure games that are largely based around exploration. The majority of the artwork is rendered in very simple pixel art. Nifflas' latest release, Knytt Stories, is a compilation of several smaller games.
A guy reviews Heavenly Sword and Resident Evil 5 trailers most bodaciously.
LINK
A must see
Read the full post...
Following details of Nintendo’s record breaking full year financial results yesterday, company president Satoru Iwata has labeled worldwide shortages of the Wii console as “abnormal” and promised to increase deliveries by May next month.
Square Enix has officially announced the latest Final Fantasy remake for handheld game consoles, with remastered versions of both the original Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II scheduled to ship exclusively for the PSP in North America this summer.
Ever wanted to create that one game you've always dreamed about, but are a really bad coder and/or don't want to learn? Then you need Stencyl, the easiest 2D tile-based game creater ever (plus it's free!). It uses point click programming with easy to set up triggers. I like it because now I don't need to keep posting on the GMC for help on my games made with Game Maker. The best part about it (mainly because we are all artists) is that the only part that really requires any skill is your graphics. So far, Stencyl has "kits" for you to make platformers, action, action rpg's, strategy and shooter. More kits will arrive.
home page: http://www.stencyl.com/about/
UNITY is a game creation program for creating 3D games and have recently recieved a liscense from Nintendo for their users to create their own wii games. UNITY CEO David Helgason says: "This is the product combo of our dreams, Ever since it was announced we've longed to give game developers access to the sheer creative fun of the Nintendo Wii."
From BoingBoing:
This little stop-motion animation recreates Super Mario Brothers in legos, which is charming enough, but what's even better is the theme, performed on guitar and recorder, and the sound effects, which appear to be some guy going "week! week!" and so on.
Some are kick ass, some are ok, and there are a few that I don't like one bit... Overall, very cool, imo.
Sufficed to say I was one that was always told and believed video games to be bad for your eyes, but a new study is coming out to say that isn't true.
"These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
So pick up those video games and get back on your butt....It's good for ya!
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Part comedy and partially a message to the public about the problems on the streets, SFE is a highly entertaining and visually appealing adventure in a style long forgotten by modern gaming.
With story, coding and graphics by Ivan Dixon (aka iSTVAN aka me) and music by Steve Larabie (aka PB aka Pixel Blink), this is an all out pixel joint admin showcase! Not to mention it features 100% pixel graphics.
Download it here!
Indie game maker Bernie, responsible for 'Cedric and the Revolution,' 'A Game with a Kitty' and its recent sequel, has just released his a new game entitled 'Reactor 09.' It's an adventure game that revolves around a convicted murderer in a high security futuristic prison and the anal prison guard employed to reform him.
It deals with slightly more adult themes than Bernie's previous games, but there are still plenty of delicious pixel graphics to appease all your pixel needs. The game makes use of an innovative ‘trust’ system that determines the outcome of play.
Download the game here and support the indie gaming industry!
I was just checking the Dutch Nintendo site, because today is the Wii release day in Europe (WOWIEWOAH!)
On the homepage I found Nintendo's Advent Calender (created by extra toxic) and guess what? It's a pixel art game! 
The game will have 24 levels on the 24th of December. The first 8 levels are currently unlocked and every new day a new level is accessible until x-mas.
Check it out
The story: No time for vacations when you're the Imp King's Arch-Chancellor, oh no! How about you go on a quest to find the king's girlfriend's lost crown instead? And shoot stars at stuff? And also save the world? And kick some koala butt along the way?
Darkside Adventures borrows some gameplay elements from Super Mario Bros. 2 (with the whole pick-up-things-and-throw-them-away deal) and pulls it off rather nicely. It's also possible to go back to earlier levels so you can get previously unreachable bonus items, which adds a nice amount of replay value. Plus, the game has some excellent pixel art graphics similar to Bernie's other platforming effort A Game with a Kitty.
I haven't played a whole lot of the game yet but so far it's pretty good. Check eet on Bernie's website.
Sounds like your typical marketing hype, but here comes the goods... from the artwork it appears that this is a co-op game fighting hordes of zombies. Awwww yeah.
If the court case goes against Jack Thompson he will most likely get fined, judicial admonishment or censure but there is a chance that the judge can rule him to a jail sentence if he is found guilty.
Click here for more.
http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3901
This is due to everybody's favorite company, Sony, suing the pants off of the small hardcore gamer favorite. Sony did this by filing a lawsuit against Lik-Sang in every EU country and "Bleeding it to death". Sony later denied reports and claimed that it was to "protect the consumer"
"Do you long for the days of PC adventure games like Monkey Island and King's Quest, where pointing and clicking were all the skills you needed to enter worlds filled with knee-slapping comedy and brain-scratching puzzles?
I sure as hell do. But these days, it's a risky proposition to make a point-and-click adventure, which is why
Ah yes, bring back more of the terrific humorous adventures of LucasArts glorious past. More of the Wired article.
There is also some more info about the game itself:
Like the previous works, GBA-style battle is revived. Netto in the ADV style real world, from an overhead style view, operates Rockman in the network world. Progress through (8 + alpha?) scenarios in all. You can also play a short quest from the request BBS which returns.
Looks like Aquaman, as well as Searchman, will also be making a return, as can be seen from the screenshots.
That's right, a canadian man with a tattoo of the video game Grand Theft Auto was charged with a case of stolen property and auto theft.
S+F Software is on the look out for talented pixel artists ready to jump into doing a commercial project for the Sega Dreamcast to be published by Goat Store, LLC. This is a paid project, but is based on units sold, so don't give up your day job.
Over this past week, Nintendo's made some big announcements. They consist of pricing for the games of the Virtual Console, the Opera Web Browser in the Wii, launch lists, but most of all, the release date and the price.
For North America and South America, the Wii will release at $249.99 on November 19. Games'll price out at about $49.99
For Europe, The Wii will hit December 8th priced at £179 in the UK and 249 Euros in Europe. Games will cost between £34-£39 (49-50 Euros).
And for Japan, it'll be December 2, selling for 25,000 yen.
I'm really excited, i've been waiting for the Wii ever since it's been named Revolution.
A lot of Mario Bros. stuff has been submitted to the gallery. It looks like video games are everyones favourite. Some patient dude rebuilt many classic game maps, nice for remembering and inspiration.
At 2 million strong, Nintendo's wireless gaming community grows larger than 15 U.S. states. Yep, Nintendo's DS WiFi community is that big. Pretty fricking good for Nintendo's first shot at online gaming. Currently only a few of the DS's games have WiFi capabilities, but they are all crawling with gamers who are new to Nintendo along with those of us who have stuck with Nintendo through thick and thin.
Nintendo might just be back on top very soon.
Pure Pwnage is releasing there 1st season on DVD this september after they make the 12th episode. these are the guys who made the famous BOOM HEADSHOT More info at:
Our project involves a lot of sprite art, and the whole game is original and created by us. The only thing we’ve borrowed is the name and character Megaman and Alouette.
After the demo has been released, we will hold different competitions for spriters. We may also ask talented spriters if they’d be willing to help us out. If you find this project interesting then please take a look at our website. This is to my knowledge the first game developed for Gameboy Advance by non-professional people that use new and original graphics and music, and it’s a lot of fun to add.
"We considered each year as a whole, looking at how many great games came out, just how great each was, and even how they play today. And our final results shocked even us."
Thanks for the tip Ripped Monkey!
As a note for those interested the 7th 72 hour Game Dev Compo is going on July 14th-17th
For those of you high school students sick of Arthur Miller works and musicals there is hope. Some creative students have put on a full blown production of the LucasArts classic Secret of Monkey Island! Does this remind anyone else of those funny little Max Fischer plays from Rushmore?
The Link:
http://www.pixeljam.com/gammabros
You can get some screenshots and download the thing at that address.
Please check it out and let us know what you think!
Check out more of the DS lite here.
Of course not, especially when you can play it on the side of a building.
Search for game developers around the world on a worldwide map. Very handy if you are interested in getting into the gaming industry.
Electronic Art's John Schappert talks about how EA is dedicating an entire separate group just for Revolution development. The article delves into how they are taking the newest Madden game and totally revamping the gameplay to take advantage of the innovative controller. With the DS and the upcoming Revolution it looks like NIntendo is determined to move games away from good old fashioned button mashing. Goodie.
I stumbled on this little gem and thought I would share it with you guys, seeing as we are all pretty rooted to the world of 8 or 16-bit in our own way,
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2686716
This giant Tetris game was created using “eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights”. It took over five months of planning and can be seen off Interstate 95 in Rhode Island.
Scott Johnson's newest ExtraLife comic strip reminds me that E3 in Los Angeles is coming up quick (May 10-12). Any of you pixel people gonna attend?
I've reposted my bitchy rants about the event below. Keep in mind that I scramble to get tickets to the show year after year so I must get something out of it...
Noitu Love and the Army of Grinning Darns is a recently released game, and boy is it awesome. It's a 2D fighting platformer with great gameplay, clever boss battles and some very nice retro-styled pixel art as well.
I'm not too good at descriptions like this, so just check out these screenshots and download the game.
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4
Download eet!
That's right, he's daring for making a game involving the murder of Joystiq bloggers. Although many will agree that JT doesn't needs anymore attention, this could be a great chance to show off some pixel game graphics.
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