After almost three years of wait, Covert Front Episode 4: the Spark of Life is live!

Covert Front is a Point’n’Click “spy” series created by Mateusz Skutnik that takes place “in 1904, but in a different reality-line, where the First World War has already begun due to earlier technical revolution that took place in the mid 19th century.

In Covert Front, you are an agent code-named Kara and your mission is to investigate the disappearance of General Karl von Toten.”

Sadly, the series ends with this last installment!

Have fun!

Covert Front 4 walkthrough (thanks Braxium!)

Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich is live!

Covert Front is a Point’n’Click “spy” series created by Mateusz Skutnik that takes place “in 1904, but in a different reality-line, where the First World War has already begun due to earlier technical revolution that took place in the mid 19th century.

In Covert Front, you are an agent code-named Kara and your mission is to investigate the disappearance of General Karl von Toten.

The game is divided into four equal parts, all being chapters of the same story.”

In this third episode, “our top secret agent Kara finds herself in a train station in Zurich with new orders – to apprehend the mysterious scientist Karl von Toten. But who is that watching her from across the station? Kara will have to use all of her cunning to bring in the rogue scientist and avoid meeting a grim end herself.”

I’m sure Cover Front fans won’t miss this one!

Have fun!

Cover Front 3: Night in Zurich video walkthrough (thanks Tass!)

Cover Front 3: Night in Zurich walkthrough (thanks jennifercsu!)

Covert Front Episode 2: Station on the Horizon is live!

Covert Front is a Point’n’Click “spy” series created by Mateusz Skutnik that takes place “in 1904, but in a different reality-line, where the First World War has already begun due to earlier technical revolution that took place in the mid 19th century.

In Covert Front, you are an agent code-named Kara and your mission is to investigate the disappearance of General Karl von Toten.

The game is divided into four equal parts, all being chapters of the same story.”

In this second episode, “Kara is up to her neck in hot water. Having infiltrated Karl von Toten’s mansion and made off with key intelligence, she must now escape with her life and let her superiors know of her shocking finds.”

No need to say that this second chapter is again a great realization that will delight all Covert Front fans!

Have fun!

Update: Covert Front 2 walkthrough in comment #9 (thanks CafeCafe!)

Update: Covert Front 2 video walkthrough!

Here is the alert I just found in my email box today, from Mateusz Skutnik, the creator of the Submachine series:

“In Covert Front you are a top secret agent code-named Kara in an alternate history version of World War I. Assigned to infiltrate the mansion of a notorious scientist, Karl von Toten, you must discover the incredible secrets that lie within and escape with your life.

But first, you must figure out how to get through the front door! Covert Front is a point-and-click adventure game that will transport you to the center of an espionage-filled world.”

All Quiet on the Covert Front is a short and not really difficult game, but the story line and the unique atmosphere bring it to a new level. Covert Front might become a very successful series if the next episodes are as good as this one!

Have fun!

Update: Cover Front – Episode 1 walkthrough in comment #20 (thanks Kari!)

Update: Cover Front – Episode 1 video walkthrough!

Iron Works is a nice Bust-A-Move clone developed by Mateusz Skutnik, the creator of Submachine and Covert Front series.

The object of the game is to clear each level by using the iron ball launcher. Shoot the colored balls to link 3 or more of the same color and make them disappear from the board.

Iron Works is a very fun game to play, even if it is not as good as Frozen Bubble.

That being said, if you are a fan of this type of game, Iron Works is definitely worth a try!

Have fun!

Mr MothBall is a fun little platformer created by Mateusz Skutnik better known for his two Point’n’click game series, Covert Front and Submachine.

Simply jump from platform to platform by using the arrow keys and eat the purple blobs to complete each level. Watch out for the little red moths!

A pretty well made platformer, with beautiful hand-drawn graphics!

Have fun!

A big thank you to everyone that cast a vote in the 2007 Best Developers of the Year.

We are pleased to announce that nearly 5000 votes have been cast since you started voting for your favorite developers.

Without further ado, here are the 12 finalists you picked as the Best Developers of 2007 in their category, ranked by total votes received!

Paskapet (Russia) – Best Developer 2007 (Room Escape games)

Paskapet is a very prolific Flash game developer from Russia, who has released six Room Escape games in the last eight months! After the release of Escape Library, Paskapet made five games in the “Colored Rooms” series, Escape Pink Room, Magenta Room, Green Room, Orange Room and Turquoise Room.

Rodrigo Roesler (Brazil)

Rodrigo Roesler is a Web designer and a Flash game developer from Brazil. He released Trapped – The White Rabbit last September, the first installment of a very promising trilogy of Point’n’Click adventure and Escape games. The second installment, The Dark, is now live!

Shawn Tanner (U.S.A.)

Shawn Tanner is the author of several popular flash games and the Webmaster of Afro-Ninja Productions. Shawn released three Room Escape games this year in his very popular Escape series: Escape the Car, Escape the Closet and Escape the Phone Booth.

Bernd Mattiebe (Germany) – Best Developer 2007 (Adventure games)

Bernd Mattiebe is a German artist and designer. He is also the man who gave life last year to Wogger, a cute red alien. Since then, he has created over 100 chapters for the Wogger Mini series that more and more people enjoy playing every week.

Federico Rutenberg (Argentina)

Federico Rutenberg released the first chapter of Esklavos last April. Esklavos is a Point’n’Click Adventure series involving two young aliens. Since then, he has created 9 more chapters and Esklavos is quickly becoming popular series.

Mateusz Skutnik (Poland)

Mateusz Skutnik defines himself as a Flash games architect and a graphic novel artist. His best known adventure/escape series so far is Submachine (with two new chapters this year, Submachine 4 and FLF). He also started two new adventure series this year, Covert Front and Daymare Town. The author is now developing “Submachine 5: the Root” that should be released in January.

Bart Bonte (Belgium) – Best Developer 2007 (Puzzle games)

Bart Bonte is a Flash developer from Belgium who has already developed successful games. More well known for his Room Escape games (the Bonte Room series, A bark in the Dark, Loose the Moose), Bart released several puzzle games in 2007, such as Fields of Logic, Chicken Grow and more recently, Factory Balls.

Yoshio Ishii (Japan)

From japan, Yoshio Ishii has been designing Flash games for several years now. He is well known for his Neko Series, a series of games involving cats. In 2007, he decided to focus on creating puzzle games, and released some very creative games such as Plupon, the amazing Hoshi Saga series, and more recently, Slidon.

Stephen Harris (New Zealand)

Stephen Harris is the author of the Bloons series and many other successful games. The original Bloons game was released last March and became an instant hit. Since then, Stephen has created Bloons World, a site dedicated to Bloons fans, two “Bloons” Tower Defense games, and a few other puzzle/skill games!

John Cooney (U.S.A.) – Best Developer 2007 (Action/Skill games)

John Cooney is very well known in the Flash gaming community for his Ball Revamped and Four Second series. He released many new games this year, such as Scribble 2, Luminara, Ball Revamped 5 or Ocean Explorer to name a few. Now working full time at ArmorGames, you can expect more creative games from this guy!

WeCreateStuff (Israel)

WeCreateStuff defines itself as a group of (young) nerds with way too much free time. They released Portal: The Flash Version last October, a awesome Flash 2D version of the first person action/puzzle game developed by Valve.

Joel Esler (Australia)

Joel Esler is a Flash game developer from Australia. Last September, he uploaded at Kongregate his first game, a physics-based platformer named Manifold. Even though Manifold was only a demo, it was an instant hit. After a few weeks, Joel released Fold, a full version of his previous game with much more challenging levels!

Here at FreeGamesNews, we love free browser-based games. The end of the year is coming soon, and it’s time for YOU to cast your vote for the Best Developers of the year in our first annual FreeGamesNews Awards.

Here are the 10 nominees in the category Best Adventure games Developers of 2007, in alphabetical order:

Aztec (Japan)

Aztec is a Flash Adventure/Escape games designer from Japan. Between June and December 07, Aztec released four unique and superbly crafted games, Shrine (Jinja), Escape from Island, Escape from Octlien and Dr Dokkoy.

Anders Gustafsson (Swede)

Anders Gustafsson is an independent developer from Swede who mainly works with film and game production. He is well known in the Flash games community for his very popular Point’n’Click Adventure series Gateway. The second installment in the series was released last March.

Gionatan Iasio (Italy)

Gionatan Iasio is a Flash games designer from Italy and the brilliant mind behind the Warbears series. Warbears Mission 2 and Mission 3 were released this year, and the author is already working on the upcoming fourth installment in the series, “Underwater”.

Makibishi Studio

Makibishi Comic is a very creative and original Point’n’Click adventure game created by Makibishi Studio of Japan (their site really deserves a visit!) Makibishi Comic is loaded with fascinating artwork and the overall quality is impressive!

Bernd Mattiebe (Germany)

Bernd Mattiebe is a German artist and designer. He is also the man who gave life last year to Wogger, a cute red alien. Since then, he has created over 100 chapters for the Wogger Mini series that more and more people enjoy playing every week.

Dan Russell-Pinson (U.S.A.)

Dan Russell-Pinson has been programming since the early 80’, but he only started learning Flash a few months ago. Last August, he released the first chapter of Tipping Point, a very promising series of adventure games, and the second chapter went live a few weeks ago.

Federico Rutenberg (Argentina)

Federico Rutenberg released the first chapter of Esklavos last April. Esklavos is a Point’n’Click Adventure series involving two young aliens. Since then, he has created 9 more chapters and Esklavos is quickly becoming popular series.

On (Japan)

On of Eyezmaze, the creator of the hugely popular Grow series has released several games this year, with major hits like Dwarf Complete or Grow Island, along with a few others like Neighbours, Grow Nano vol.2 and Galves Adventure.

Mateusz Skutnik (Poland)

Mateusz Skutnik defines himself as a Flash games architect and a graphic novel artist. His best known adventure/escape series so far is Submachine (with two new chapters this year, Submachine 4 and FLF). He also started two new adventure series this year, Covert Front and Daymare Town. The author is now developing “Submachine 5: the Root” that should be released in January.

Trickysheep (New Zealand)

Trickysheep is a digital publisher based in New Zealand. The 21st of November, they released Anika’s Odyssey – Land of the Taniwha, “a magical adventure deep into a lush and enchanted land”. The game was coded by Jeff Nusz, the author of another original adventure game released this year, Sprout, with art by Tom Robinson.