Adobe has recently stated that they will unveil the new version of Flash on September 23rd, 2008. Adobe has added a lot since CS3. New features of CS4 will include a z-axis for movieclips and sprites as well as built-in inverse kinetics. More features include a built in text-renderer and an object based tween engine. To sign up for the official web broadcast by Adobe, you can visit here.
Steve, over at 8BitRocket recently came out with a list detailing his top ten predictions for the casual gaming marker over the next year. Predictions range from the flash market, to gaming consoles and computer games. Included in his prediction is FMAME, the flash version of MAME. Let’s hope for all of us that the portals decide not to embrace it. To see the other 9 predictions, you should head over to see his article.
As you may know, Flash Game License has come out with a service called First Impressions a little while ago. With my new game coming out soon, I thought I would give them a try. It was Double Impression month, so I used 5 first impressions, and got another 5 free.
Most of the reviewers pointed out other aspects of the game that could use some tweaking, which was very helpful. However, I was disappointed with the lack of useful reviews. Two reviews were completely useless, stating things like “no advice” or one word descriptions. One based his review on not being able to find the instructions, and another on the game needing more blood. Not all reviewers were this short though, most of the impressions were very helpful, with comments like “The sound is good. It matches with the actions that are happening in the game. The background music can get on your nerves after playing the game for too long.” Overall I found that First Impressions was pretty beneficial.
MochiAds recently released where most of there game developers come from. It’s not completely accurate since it only includes people that use MochiAds, but it’s still pretty intesting. Wondering which country tops the list? Here are the countries with the most flash game developers:
You can check out the pie chart here.
A new handheld gaming unit called Wiz has recently been announced. The handheld console runs a Linuz operating system, and features a 533 MHz processor and 64 MB of RAM. The screen is about 2.8 inches and the battery is expected to last for around 5 hours. Games for the WIz will come from third party developers. You can even store your favorite Atari, NES, and other game console games onto it. Since the Wiz will be open source, people have already begun developing new and exciting applications onto it.
Now you’re probably wondering, why would a flash blog write about the Wiz? It is going to come with Flash Player 7. That’s right, people could be playing your flash games on it when it releases around the middle of October. You can read more about it here.
