Win up to $7000 with “Word Play” Flash Game Contest

Dictionary.com and MochiAds are bringing you a completely new contest for summer 2009 with $15,000 in prizes.

Beside the cash, this is a very interesting contest because you must use words, and this will require a lot of game design skill to procude something different than Scrabble.

Another interesting thing is Dictionary.com is even providing a word list to help you get started! The only rules for using this list is to mark on the Title Screen of your game that it is being powered by “dictionary.com”.

You can download the list at this link, and in the zipped file you will find a .eps file with the logo and a list of 147,306 (!!) words.

I will made a couple of tutorials about the use of these words during next days, meanwhile let me talk about the prizes:

1st Place – $7,000
2nd Place – $4,000
3rd Place – $2,000
Honorable Mention (x2) – $1,000 each

Start Date: June 9th, 2009

End Date: August 14th, 2009

Contest Criteria:

* Must incorporate the MochiAds Version Control and Encryption service
* Must be distribution-enabled and use MochiAds Leaderboards
* Must run MochiAds advertisements
* Must be a word game or a game themed around words and puzzles
* Must be entered in MochiAds before midnight August 14th, 2009 PST
* Must be tagged with “dictionary.com”

Check the official page for all information.

Win $9,000 + $15,000 with Batman: The Brave and the Bold Game Casting Call!

Big news for Flash game developers.

MochiAds and Warner Bros have teamed up to bring you a fresh new promotion.

It’s an open casting call for all top Flash developers out there to submit your awesome game ideas for a chance to create an officially licensed game starring none other than Batman himself!

Out of all the submissions, Mochi will select their favorites. Those selected developers will then go on to create these games with, for the first time, official Batman assets provided by Warner Bros. and a chance to win one of many cash prizes!

DEADLINE

Game idea submissions for this promotion are to be submitted by 3/27/2009 11:59PM PST

PRIZE BREAKDOWN

Grand Prize – $9,000 + Contract to create another game for $15,000
WB Choice Award – Four winners receiving $5,000 each
WB Appreciation Award – Five winners receiving $4,000 each

RULES

Phase 1 (3/11/2009 – 3/27/2009)
Submit a game idea that describes your idea for the perfect Batman: The Brave and the Bold game! The submission form asks for items like “game description” and links to “game mockups”. The more comprehensive and detailed these pieces are, the better idea we will have on the game you plan on creating and can then judge accordingly.

Phase 2 (4/10/2009 – 7/2/2009)
Finalists from the casting call are announced and invited to start development on their game! Official Batman assets passed out to finalists participating in the game creation!

Phase 3 (7/3/2009)
Winners announced!

MY CONSIDERATIONS

Obviously, if just had to draw a game idea for a Batman game, it’s quite easy to talk about a GTA game where you roam around Gotham City hunting and chasing criminals.

Unfortunately you must be able to complete your game in about two months, so I think your project will be also evalued according to its chances to be completed in two months.

Moreover, you must provide mockups using the assets you can find at the official page, so I think this will be a very interesting contest.

Read more at MochiLand blog

Win $16,000 with Flash Game Walk of Fame Contest!

Are you ready for a big Flash game development contest?

MochiAds and ArcadeTown are running the Flash Game Walk of Fame Contest with $16,000 in sponsorships to be distributed to top five entries in this way:

1st Place: $7,000
2nd Place: $4,000
3rd Place: $2,000
4th Place: $1,500
5th Place: $1,500

To be elegible for the contest, games have to incorporate the MochiAds Version Control and Encryption service and run MochiAds.

Unlike most contest, this one has no theme so you can unleash your creativity (or submit any of your games currently under development without changing a byte) and you have to opt-in your game to enter the contest.

Deadline is midnight December 31, 2008 PST.

More information at the official page.

The great Multiwinia give-away

Sometimes Flash developers also work to game development on other platforms.

It’s the case of byronay that worked on Multiwinia, a multiplayer game that will make you challenge your opponent to a game of stick-man slaughter and witness devastating digital-war unfold.

Byron has decided to give away all 10 copies to random people and all you have to do to get one of those 10 copies is:

1 Download the demo copy of Multiwinia, from the Multiwinia website

2 Play the demo and take a screenshot of the game over screen showing you winning the game. Change the gamer tag to show your name and you have to have won the game to qualify.

3 Send the screenshot of you winning the game to dev[at]xiotexstudios.com. Make sure you put ‘The great Multiwinia give-away’ as the subject of the email.

Then Byron will choose the winners and post them his blog, where you can also find more information about the give-away in the official page.

At this time I wanted to know something more about RTS making and game developing on platforms different than Flash, and that’s the exclusive content Byron is sharing on this blog.

Byron’s opinions

Multiwinia was the first RTS game I have worked on. Previous games were games like Mutant Storm Empire for XBox 360 Live Arcade and NHL for XBox so Multiwinia was a fresh change. The biggest challenge was the sheer amount of activity going on in a single game and making sure that all 4 players saw the same thing. We did that by using a predictive physics system that when it worked well was a dream but when it went wrong was a nightmare to debug. The network protocol devised for this game is very light-weight and sends very little information between the clients and the server and yet we are able to have over 2000 units all having battles on screen. I must admit from a game point of view it is the game I am most proud to have worked on.

One of the biggest issues we had however was on the control mechanism – everybody has their own view on how an RTS game should be played and this caused a lot of issues with our beta testers and the magazines that were reviewing the game. In the end Chris Delay locked himself in a room for a week and came out with the current control methods we have and I think it works well.

Cheers,

Byron.

Let’s win the copy!

At the time I am writing, only 2 people won the free copy, so there are 8 more waiting for us.

What are you waiting for?

Design a WordPress theme and win $500 at Flash Mint contest

Here it is a new competition that can make you win $500 designing a 3 columns WordPress theme for FlashMint.

FlashMint is a company that offers Flash templates for sale and now has to design its blog that at the moment is just another Kubrick one.

If you want to take part into the contest, you have to design a WP theme with these features:

- 3 columns
- fixed width and widget support
- coded
- the colors and style of the theme should correspond to Flashmint design!

The deadline is September 1st. You can find more information in the official post.

Moreover, if you refer the contest this way:

Gain a $100-$800 prize at a bloggers and designers competition from an innovative Flash Website Templates supplier. Find out the details.

You can win up to $300 and you’ll have a guaranteed backlink to your webiste.

Create 3D avatars and win over $20,000 with Meez and FlashGameLicense

Let me introduce you an interesting opportunity to improve the look and feel of your games and win cash prizes: MeezInside Avatar Games Contest hosted by Meez and FlashGameLicense.

You should already know FGL for its marketplace and First Impressions services.

Meez is a social entertainment site where can create animated 3D avatars, dress up the avatars, play free games and use the avatars in virtual worlds.

You can also use created avatars as an AIM emoticon or export it into MySpace, Facebook and other sites.

I am trying the service and I have to admit the avatars you can create are very detailed.

There are lots of backgrounds, settings and assets that the only limit seems to be your creativity… and your Coinz, since some features cost Coinz, Meez’s virtual money.

This is an avatar I created almost for free, and that will be used in a game I am developing

Now, let’s talk about money…

FlashGameLicense and Meez are offering Flash games developers over $20,000 in prizes for the best games using the MeezInside Avatar API.

Oh, yes, they released an API!

Your entry is also eligible for primary licenses, ad revenue, and the other licensing options you expect from FGL!

Refer to the official page for full guidelines and let me introduce you the API.

As said in the API docs, the Meez Inside Games API offers a turnkey solution for users to bring their own custom characters effortlessly into Flash games deployed anywhere on the web. The Meez Inside Games Platform also allows developers to easily and quickly generate custom NPCs to embed in their projects, while selecting from a broad range of gameready animations.

Once you created an avatar, like mine, go to Meez Image Service and with a couple of clicks in a simple interface like this one

You will be able to generate a filmstrip with an animation such as all walking directions for a game like I did, or gestures such as laughing, waving and so on.

Also, I would like you to look at the detail of every single frame.

Now, even if you are not interested in taking part at the contest, you’ll have a beautiful animation to be used in your next game… add to it the chance to win up to $10,000 (the first prize) and you’ll definitively want to know something more about Meez.

Again, start from the MeezInside Contest Detail page and good luck!

Win a TemplateMonster theme with TemplateMonster Lottery

If you are looking for a fresh and professional template for your personal site, Flash game portal or a site for a web design job, then you should take a look at TemplateMoster.

Now you have a chance to win one of these templates thanks to the TemplateMonster lottery.

Let’s see what does it mean from the mouth (well, the keyboard) of Helen:

TemplateMonster.com is going to hold a lottery with give-away to any participant.

The lottery is going to be about the upcoming 4th of July.

And here are the details of TemplateMonster Lottery which reminds elections in its structure.

We’ll expose two of TemplateMonster’s website designs. In order to take part in the lottery one should vote for one design or the other.

The design which gets the most votes becomes the winner. Note the best design is chosen during two weeks period.

And here are the benefits for users to take part in our lottery:
- everyone who participates in our lottery gets the free Icon Set. All icons included into this free Icon Set also relate to patriotic and 4th of July topic;
- also everyone who participates in our lottery has a chance to get one of our special prizes.

The special prizes are:
- 1 Gift Certificate giving the opportunity to get any product from Template Monster database for free;
- two 80% discount coupons for purchasing any product from Template Monster database;
- three 50% discount coupons for purchasing any product from Template Monster database.

Note everyone who purchases any product from Template Monster during this promo will get the Icon Set that I’ve mentioned for free.

And now, the link: 4th July Lottery 2008.

That’s it… and if you don’t understand what’s the point of giving away patriotic icons on July 4th, you should watch Independence Day movie.

XPOGames developer contest: $18,000 in prizes

This is a month full of rich contests.

Today we’ll talk about XPOGames and its $18,000 cash and prizes contest

The chief of Management and PR wants to explain you all what’s hot at XPOGames:

XPOGames.com / Management and PR

We have issued an official Media Alert (or Press Release) last week which includes all the information regarding our present contest. Nevertheless, I will try supply you with bits of relevant information from within that Media Alert in this post:

XPOGames.com, a new gaming-based social network has just announced the launch of a new game development contest: the ‘$18,000 XPOser game development contest’ for the year 2008, open to each and every flash game developer world-wide. The contest is amongst the most luxurious contests ever published in the field, in-fact, the XPOser 2008 contest will award the highest cash prize ever to be awarded in an independent game development contest.

The contest will award a sub-total of $18,000 and features 3 categories: an Exclusive category which will award the grand-prize of $6,500, a Non-exclusive category which will award the first place out of ten with $4,500 and a Quantity category which will award 2 participants with $1,500 and a Nintendo Wii game console. All categories require the integration of the XPOGames toolkit into each of the uploaded submissions. Each developer will be able to sign-up and submit his/her games for approval and when a submission is approved it is counted as a legit contest entry.

Once a participant reaches 3 approved submissions it is automatically sent a free 1gb limited-edition XPOGames.com USB flash-stick, once a participant reaches 10 approved submissions it is automatically sent a free 2gb limited-edition XPOGames.com USB flash-stick, and once a participant reaches 20 approved submissions it is automatically sent a free 4gb limited-edition XPOGames.com USB flash-stick.

We’ve been getting really great and positive feedback on the contest, a lot of developers are wanting to participate and we’re already enjoying some of their creations. There are still 75 days left to go and many opportunities to win. Our contest staff will continue to post newsflashes, comments and answers to your questions on the feedback block at the lower section of the contest page. More information is available at the contest page. Stay tuned, all this is only the tip of the iceberg as the XPOGames.com community-website is preparing for its launch and will introduce a lot of new, unprecedented features to the gaming community.

As mentioned above, more information for your entry can be found at the contest page and the official Media Alert can be found at here

In addition, don’t hesitate to post your comments for any additional and specific information.

Nonoba Flash Multiplayer API contest: $20,000 in prizes

This post is written by Chris Benjaminsen from Nonoba.com. Nonoba is a gaming community where you can play games with your friends. What I personally like about Nonoba is they allow you to create your own achievements. See my Bees n’ Flowers page to see what I mean.

This is Chris Benjaminsen:

I have been reading your blog for quite some time [thanks for wasting your time reading my blog - Emanuele] and though I might finally have something thats cool enough for you to talk about.

Basically our company, Nonoba.com, just announced that we are releasing an easy to use, fully hosted and free Multiplayer API for flash developers. This should allow pretty much anybody with rudimentary flash skills to create multiplayer games, without any hosting costs.

An example of such a game can be seen here http://nonoba.com/chris/racing

We have been working with multiplayer flash games on our own server technology for a long time, and during that time a lot of flash developers and companies has approached us for access or licensing of that technology. This made us realize that there is a huge demand for a great flash multiplayer API, so we decided to wrap it up into an easy to use API and release it as a free hosted service.

The API supports the full range of multiplayer games, from simple turn based games to more complicated realtime games. To show these capabilities, we have released a new, and in our opinion, awesome game called Nonoba Racer. We have also ported some of our old creations to act as examples in the SDK, such as Fridge Magnets, Multiplayer Asteroids and DrawPad.

We want to make all the things that are currently hard for flash game developers dead easy. Our hosted Multiplayer API is the first big step in that direction. We’ve got more APIs in mind to fix the rest of the stuff that we think is currently too hard.

Since we’re so confident that we’re on the right path with our Multiplayer API, we’re also announcing our first big game competition with $20.000 USD in prices and a first price of $15.000 USD, for the best game to be built on the Multiplayer API.

Sign up for beta access, and more info here:
http://nonoba.com/developers/multiplayerapi/overview

Who refers wins

Probably you don’t know, but I won a contest hosted by MochiAds some time ago.

I won the referral bonus of the first (as far as I know) MochiAds contest. Having my name next to a Nitrome guy is something weird… a blogger that makes tutorials about Flash games next to one of the biggest Flash games developing company.

Now let me introduce the new MochiAds contest… I know it sounds a bit “old” but I am going to introduce it in a new way… on a 50” tv screen and wearing the tshirt MochiAds sent me.

Now it’s time to become a rockstar with ‘Become a Rock Star’ Flash Games Contest… with $25,000 waiting for you.

Just read the rules at the official page and grab as much money as you can.

Now I want you to see a MochiAds cheque… now tell me how can I enter a bank with a cheque with a robot-toy on its header…

Another thing some of you probably did not see is this screen… that’s what happens when you reach the minimum payout.

Finally, I would like to know what are doing the 77 developers I referred to MochiAds… still waiting for the first payout? If so, I think entering a contest will help your game to be played massively and reach the minimum payout.

We have a complete about to How To Be a Winner at Flash Game Contests made by the guys that created Flash Game License, the first virtual broker of Flash games.

With all those opportunities to have your game played by tons of people, you can’t stay under the $100 payout for a long time.

And remember, a gold mine for Flash games, once you integrate its API, is MindJolt.

That’s it. Go and win, better if using one of my tutorials as a good start for your game… I will be glad to see one of you winning the contest, even if your chances are quite low since I am going to enter the contest. Well, the 2nd prize could be yours.

Thanx to Ada Chen for sending the T-shirts

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