Bart Bonte has just released Factory Balls 4, the fourth installment in his popular puzzle series Factory Balls.

Just like its predecessors, Factory Balls 4 is a series of mini puzzles (30 in total) in which you need to drag and drop a ball over the tools to produce the required ball.

If you enjoyed Factory Balls,  Factory Balls 2 and Factory balls 3,  chances are you like this fourth installment as well!

Have fun!

Bart Bonte has just released Factory Balls – Christmas Edition, the fourth installment in his popular puzzle series Factory Balls. “Drag and drop a ball from the Christmas tree over the tools to produce the correct Christmas ball in each level! Complete all the levels, and you can jingle all the way!” Have fun!

Fans of Room Escape games, rejoice! Bart Bonte, the author of the Factory Balls puzzle series, has just released a new Escape game, A Bonte Escape. “You find yourself dropped in a strange room, but are you smart enough to get out?” Nice and easy! Have fun!

A Bonte Escape video walkthrough!

Bart Bonte has just released Factory Balls 3, the third installment in his popular puzzle series Factory Balls.

Just like its two predecessors, Factory Balls 3 is a series of mini puzzles (30 in total) in which you need to drag and drop a ball over the tools to produce the required ball.

If you enjoyed Factory Balls, if you loved Factory Balls 2, well I can assure you won’t be disappointed in any way with Factory Balls 3!

Have fun!

Factory Balls 3 levels 1-15 video walkthrough!
Factory Balls 3 levels 16-30 video walkthrough!

Bart Bonte has just released Factory Balls 2, a sequel to his puzzle game Factory Balls.

Just like its predecessor, Factory Balls 2 is a series of mini puzzles in which you need to drag and drop a ball over the tools to produce the required ball.

If you like the original game, you will enjoy this one as well: with 30 news levels to complete, it should keep you busy for at least 15 minutes!

Have fun!

Factory Balls 2 walkthrough (thanks Reka!)

Factory Balls 2 video walkthrough!

Factory Balls is a new puzzle game created by Bart Bonte and one of the numerous entries to the 4h Casual Gameplay Design Competition run by Jayisgames.

Factory Balls is a series of 14 mini puzzles in which you need to drag and drop a ball over the tools to produce the required ball.

Nicely done, Factory Balls is fun and very enjoyable… while it lasts: the game is not really challenging and is a bit short!

That being said, Factory Balls is an original game and I think a lot of fans would like to see a sequel with more levels and more randomly selected tools.

Have fun!

Update: Factory Balls walkthrough in comment #2 (thanks Xoke!)

Update: Factory Balls video walkthrough!

Klikwerk is a fast-paced game from Bart Bonte, the author of the Factory Balls puzzle series. Your goal here is to “remove all the items as quickly as possible, by pointing, clicking, dragging, dropping and hitting the spacebar, as you are told”. Score over 30,000 points for a crazy bonus level! Have fun!

Full Moon, the latest puzzle game from Bart Bonte (The Bonte Room, Factory balls) , is live! “The fullest moon, a rabbit with desires, can you bring satisfaction? Explore, point, click, drag, drop!” Very cool and nice game, on the easy side, but too bad it’s so short! Have fun!

Doggnation is a new puzzle game created by Bart Bonte, the author of Factory Balls and A Bark in the Dark.

Intro: “Once upon a time there was a peaceful nation of “doggs” they were living in a small castle that could use a little upgrade. Will you help these “doggs” to upgrade their castle? In each level, doggs will walk to the castle; just make them bring the needed blocks.”

Doggnation features 50 levels that take looong time to complete!

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 Puzzle games Developers of 2007, in alphabetical order:

Bart Bonte (Belgium)

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.

Damien Clarke (Australia)

Damien Clarke is a Flash game designer from Australia. Many of his games are co-sponsored by several major games portals, which is a sign of quality. The author has released two excellent puzzle games this year, Silversphere and Bloxorz.

Creative Units (Germany)

Creative Units is a German development and games design company that created Excit earlier this year. Excit is a very nice viral Flash game that borrows from RoadBlocks and its clone Orbox B heavily, but it takes the original idea to a whole new level!

GamePure (Japan)

GamePure is a Flash game design studio from Japan. GamePure has released many action games this year, such as Speed Cluster, Oshidama or the very cute Bound Bear series. They have also created a very unique Collapse-type game, Micro Art, impressive on many levels.

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!

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.

Taro Ito (Japan)

Taro Ito, the game designer behind Gamedesign, has released many games over the years, and this year was no different with four new puzzle game titles, Porolith Flash, The Four Color Problem, School Wars and Chat Noir.

Michael Le

When Michael Le from Canada released his puzzle game Jelly Blocks last summer, he certainly wasn’t expecting instant success. Jelly Blocks is so simple and absorbing that people can’t stop playing. And with 100 levels available to play, it can take a while to complete it.

Preloaded (U.K.)

Preloaded is a London-based Web design agency. After CDX, a multi-episode adventure released last year, Preloaded is back in 2007 with LaunchBall, a new addictive Puzzle/Physics Flash game created for the Science Museum in London their new Launchpad gallery.

Adam Schroeder (U.S.A.)

Adam Schroeder is the creator of the very challenging and delightful puzzle game Sola Rola. He also released the third (and final?) installment in his Asteroids Revenge earlier this year, and is now co-working on Argue (About Everything) with a fellow developer, a multiplayer real-time strategy game set for release next year at Kongregate.