Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Strategy 2 comments - July 25, 2011
Here is the fourth chapter of Flagstaff, a fantasy turn-based tactical game created by Joel Esler. You control a party of five heroes, searching for the truth behind an outbreak of madness in the King’s guards.
“The heroes emerge from the Twin Caves of Excessive Humidity into a strange forest…”
current rating 4.21Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Strategy 7 comments - June 9, 2011
Here is the third chapter of Flagstaff, a fantasy turn-based tactical game created by Joel Esler. You now control a party of five heroes, searching for the truth behind an outbreak of madness in the King’s guards.
“The adventure continues as the heroes emerge from the portal to confront the King’s arch-nemesis…”
current rating 4.50Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Strategy 4 comments - April 23, 2011
Here is the second chapter of Flagstaff, a fantasy turn-based tactical game created by Joel Esler. You now control a party of five heroes, searching for the truth behind an outbreak of madness in the King’s guards.
“The adventure continues as the heroes emerge from the portal to confront the King’s arch-nemesis…”
current rating 4.12Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Strategy 5 comments - March 15, 2011
Flagstaff – Chapter One is a fantasy turn-based tactical game created by Joel Esler where you control a party of four heroes, in service to a king with a fondness for tasteful rugs and skeletons that stay in the ground.
Nice game, with cute graphics and simple controls but too short, and way too easy. Looking forward to the next chapter…
current rating 4.03Categories: Awards 10 comments - January 16, 2008
Thanks to all of you who voted for their favorite developers for 2007! The vote is now over, and the undisputed winner with more that one-third of the votes is… Bernd Mattiebe!
As I’m writing this, Bernd’s most famous site, Woggerworld, has been hacked and has been temporarily taken down :-( This is a bad news for the whole Wogger community and we should give him all the support we can and hope his site will be up and running again soon!
Paskapet finished second in the competition and Mateusz Skutnik and Rodrigo Roesler are third ex-aequo!
Congrats to all our winners and to all the nominees!
Final Results:
1 – Bernd Mattiebe 37.9% 2 – Paskapet 19.6% 3 ex-aequo – Mateusz Skutnik / Rodrigo Roesler
9.3% 5 – Bart Bonte 7.1% 6 – Stephen Harris 3.7% 7 ex-aequo – Federico Rutenberg / Yoshio Ishii 2.9% 9 –Joel Esler 2.7% 10 – Shawn Tanner 1.9% 11 – John Cooney 1.4% 12 – WeCreateStuff 1.1%
Categories: Awards 4 comments - January 2, 2008
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!
Room Escape games |
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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 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 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.
Point’n’Click/Adventure games |
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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 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 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.
Puzzle games |
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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.
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 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!
Action/Platform/Skill games |
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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 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 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!
Categories: Awards - December 13, 2007
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 Action/Platform/Skill games Developers of 2007, in alphabetical order:
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!
KreÅ¡imir Cvitanović created Bubble Struggle also know as Bubble Trouble in 2002. The game was an instant success, so he decided to make a sequel. Five years later, the very long awaited Bubble Struggle 2 – Rebubbled was finally released. Fortunately, the sequel was worth the wait!
Donut Games is a Flash games portal operated by Swedish Game Development, located in Malmö, Sweden. The team behind the site has released several original games during the first half of this year, such as Castle Smasher, Chicken and Egg, Sunday Lawn or Lucky Coins.
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!
Case Hollingsworth is a young artist from Lincoln, Nebraska (U.S.A.). His Simple Defense game, Red, was a huge success last year. Orange, the second installment in his “Colors†series was released last March and Case is now working on Black. He also recently released 5 differences, a beautiful game of comparisons.
Jp is a French Flash game developer and the webmaster of Pepere.org. Jp only released two Flash games in 2007, Crazy Mammoths, a racing action game, and the excellent Capsules, a surprisingly challenging skill/puzzle game.
Lewis Mitchell from Australia is the author of a Shockwave episodic platformer, Platform, in which you must guide two young characters to the end of each level. Each week, the author adds a new level, challenging enough to keep you coming back for more.
Nitrome is a well known London-based games design studio that has released news Flash games in 2007 at an impressive pace. With 13 titles released in 2007 at the time of writing, Nitrome is a serious contender in the Arcade/Platform category.
Alexandre Renevey is game developer from Switzerland. He released Bubble Islands last January, an impressive retro-style arcade/puzzle game inspired by Puyo Puyo, a game developed in 1991 by the Japanese company Compile. This game was a finalist of the 2007 IGF Festival in the Best Web Browser Game category.
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.
Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Platform, Puzzle 14 comments - October 17, 2007
Fold is a new plateform/puzzle game created by Joel Esler. It is the sequel to the original Manifold that was released last month at Kongregate.
“Run. Jump. Bend gravity to your will. Dizzying heights and insurmountable slopes are no problem with the Gravitational Manifold Anomaly Device”.
Control your avatar with the arrow keys or A, W, and D to move. Press the spacebar to retrieve anomalies. Click and hold your mouse button to aim, drag in direction of desired gravity, then release to fire. Play the “Easy” levels for detailed instructions and get used to the mechanisms.
A lot of people complained that Manifold wasn’t long enough: they should be very pleased with this brilliantly designed sequel!
current rating 4.00