Vote Now: Flash Game Contest

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
Here is your chance to make your opinions heard by voting for the Top entry from the judges' picks. There were a lot of great entries, so everyone owes the judges who helped a great big thanks for taking their time to contribute to this contest.

If your favorite game did not make it in the above list, don't worry - it may still make it on the kirupa.com site.

Voting will run until August 4th!

Cheers!
Kirupa :kommie:

[m_andrews808]

Trios, Blast a Footer and Hackysack didn't want to work for me :-/

[Jeff Wheeler]

trios and hackysack didn't work for me, but blast a footer worked

[mattiaswargren]

To bad my highscores won't work inside the kirupashell. If you want to get on the highscore you'll have to use the real urls:

www.votem.net/games/hackysack/
www.votem.net/games/longjump/

[SlowRoasted]

i chose blast footer, but i thought battle pong was really close

[kirupa]

m_andrews & bombing - do the games work now? I used the exact HTML copied from each of the game's original location.

[Nikini]

why isn't one of my games on the list?

[Jeff Wheeler]

nope, try checking the locations

[dangerskew]

I didn't make it :crying:

[McGiver]

thx guys :)

[ElectricGrandpa]

trios and hackysack didn't work for me, but blast a footer worked

:puzzled: So Trios just didn't load eh? Well, if you want to try it out working properly with highscores it's still at : http://matt-rix.com/games/Trios.html

Thanks!

-EG

PS: It works for me on this site though, just without the high scores(obviously).

PPS: DOH!!! lower case g... sigh... now try, sorry guys.

[McGiver]

@EG:
your link doesn'T work for me too :(

[kirupa]

bombing/m_andrew - try now. I even tested it in Mozilla 1.5 to make sure it worked :P

[Jeff Wheeler]

works now, thanks :)

[McGiver]

yeah, works now

[Nikini]

Darn...lost another contest..:(

[dangerskew]

Mattias has two entries even. Good for him

[color_loser_pup]

battle pong---ive seen that game on soo many game sites, and this version was EXACTLY the same as them. i mean, everything was exactly the same, the menu, the controls, the weapons, the net. everything!

[mattiaswargren]

Mattias has two entries even. Good for him
:hugegrin:

[vgslag]

Gutted my Super Mario didn't make it, thought it was a dead cert :) oh well, try, try again!

[kirupa]

Gutted my Super Mario didn't make it, thought it was a dead cert :) oh well, try, try again!There were a lot of good entries. Like I mentioned in the first post, your game may make it on the site though. It's all good :)

[m_andrews808]

bombing/m_andrew - try now. I even tested it in Mozilla 1.5 to make sure it worked :P

all good now ;)

[Krilnon]

Too many of my favorites made it... I just picked one of those at random.

[makecake]

yay, my game made it! =)

tnx guys =)

[mattiaswargren]

:huh:

[ElectricGrandpa]

Ok, a bit late but this link will work for sure! :puzzle:

http://matt-rix.com/games/Trios.html

-EG

[color_loser_pup]

http://www.miniclip.com/battlepong.htm

doesnt that game remind anyone of one of the entries in this contest?

[mlk]

yup

either a) he made the one on the miniclip website or b) It's a huge rip

[kirupa]

I'm sure he is checking this thread and will comment on it :puzzled:

[Jeff Wheeler]

the idea doesn't have to original doesn't it, he just had to make it right?

[color_loser_pup]

im not sure about that, but the similarities between those two are uncanny.

[kirupa]

the idea doesn't have to original doesn't it, he just had to make it right?Yeah. Your game can be a copy of Solitaire, and that would be accepted provided the coding and the work behind it is actually your own. Of course, sprites and other in-game art don't have to be original either.

[Jeff Wheeler]

that's what I thought, well I guess I'll let you guys do what you like

[Alex]

oh wow, they look the same...

hmmm...

** is waiting for an explaniation**

[T-O]

this is hard... :(

[color_loser_pup]

who made the kirupa version of battle pong?

[mattiaswargren]

thin thin ice :whistle:

[McGiver]

difference is only in the graphics.
hmm, waiting for an explaniation too :)

[ElectricGrandpa]

seems like it must be the same person making it, it would almost be too much effort to copy the game exactly like that.

If it is the same person who made it, I'm curious, how much does miniclip pay?

-EG

[RadioactveChimp]

hmmm i think it's a rip personally, i mean he/she took the name too! argh that makes me mad, but it could be his :)

[color_loser_pup]

seems like the creator of this battle pong has magically dissapeared...

[Alex]

McGiver got my vote :)

[RadioactveChimp]

Sorry McGiver but: I don't think he deserves to win this contest. I mean it is probably the most advanced in Actionscript and most addicting (I play it everytime I see it lol), but he had time to tinker with it. What I mean by this is that he had that footer over 2 months ago, that is a long time to make it just right. The other contestants had what? A couple of weeks I think. All I am saying is that it is not fair in my opinion because he had a time advantage :)

McGiver is still the man,
Dean

[dbarbarian]

Hi guys. I just got back from China.
Yes, I am the creator of Battle Pong. I sold it to miniclip a while back. I'm sorry, but I don't think I am allowed to give you the price.
I redid the graphics for another site, www.pnflashgames.com (http://www.pnflashgames.com/), and I liked it a lot better than the original, so I submited that version.
Sorry for the confusion, I could not reply while I was in China. Too many things to do. :)
Thanks to the judges for putting my entries in the top 10. :)
Good luck to everyone. :D

[Jeff Wheeler]

hm... you're lucky, it was probably alot then :P

[the_traveler]

wow, I havnt been on kirupa for like a week and didnt even think id make top 10. Sorry for the crappy levels and slow speed, i really did rush till the last minute on that one. THanks all you guys for your votes so far!

:)

[Jeff Wheeler]

which one was yours?

[McGiver]

@radioaktive: i doesn't look like I'm winning, Mattias___ is (and he definitely deserves it)
and basically I got the footer already last november (i think so). :P

but since the task was not to create a game for the battle, but to submit one, I thought why not ;)

[kirupa]

which one was yours?I'll put all of the names of the creators more prominenently once the contest wraps up. I didn't want to bias the voting by making it obvious who created which game :pirate:

[RadioactveChimp]

McGiver: Yeah, well good luck :)

-Dean

[kto]

****! ... Now I like another entry more than the one I voted for ... (-:

Kirupa, shouldn't there be a way to take back/change your vote?

[RadioactveChimp]

:lol:

[kto]

Hey, it ain't funny ... :P

[kirupa]

Kirupa, shouldn't there be a way to take back/change your vote?hehe - no there isn't any way besides having to have me or another mod manually change the numbers. Normally I wouldn't mind removing one vote and adding another vote, but this contest is not your usual, everyday poll...well it is, but then again it isn't...(runs) :)

[McGiver]

you could just create 10 new accounts, vote in every account, but leave out the one you already voted, and then give the vote that remains to the game you want to vote now.

[ElectricGrandpa]

Now I like another entry more than the one I voted for ...
That's why you've gotta play em all carefully first! :huh: Haha oh well :)

Hmm... So we can't have the exact amount from mini-clip, what about pnflashgames? or at least some ballpark figures...? or like... how much did it work out to per hour? I'm just trying to see if it will be worth my time, because I've been thinking of creating a couple games for mini-clip or shockwave.com(I need $$$).

Thanks!

-EG

[chriskalani]

Bwlahsst uhh phoughtur!!

[NeoDreamer]

Which languages can be used to make a high score list in a Flash game?

[Alex]

you could just create 10 new accounts, vote in every account, but leave out the one you already voted, and then give the vote that remains to the game you want to vote now.

hmm....

not a good idea. Kirupa and the mods will find out if anyone does this. So please, only vote once like everyone else...

[dbarbarian]

Miniclip paid a few hundred. At pnflashgames, each copy is sold for 8 dollars a piece, and i keep 75% of the profit.
I estimate that I probably made a little less than $10 an hour from miniclip, but that excludes the sales to other websites.
I hope that helps. :)

[Xpeder]

I voted for hackysack just because it was he most original it was the first hackysack game I ever played.



No offence but flies? What’s the deal with that? I played for a good 40 minutes and it is never ending and way to easy I committed suicide after I had 61695. After a while the fruits keep coming as fast as you can click them. If you ask me this game is just too "Buggy" for me.



......yes pun intended.

[NeoDreamer]

I hear you, fool. Word up. I also don't have a taste for Orisinal.com style games. Orisinal games are also never ending. They just test how strong your butt muscles are: how long you can sit.

[DariusMonsef]

Some real great entries there. Mattias seems to have a knack for the programming and graphics. Your two games overall just seemed very polished.

[macneilslt]

go blasta footer!!!! :thumb:

[pom]

Super Mario... Trios.... Barefoot longjump.... Tough choice between those 3 :-/

[PSYCO_MUFFIN]

go blasta footer!!!! :thumb:same here it is da best ever :D

[McGiver]

Which languages can be used to make a high score list in a Flash game?
well any server side language (I suggest php).
you basically can even write it down in a textfile

btw: thx for the love :lover:

[Alex]

No offence but flies? What’s the deal with that? I played for a good 40 minutes and it is never ending and way to easy I committed suicide after I had 61695. After a while the fruits keep coming as fast as you can click them. If you ask me this game is just too "Buggy" for me.



......yes pun intended.

well.. it made the final list. so that means that all the judges including me enjoyed it...

[ElectricGrandpa]

Miniclip paid a few hundred. At pnflashgames, each copy is sold for 8 dollars a piece, and i keep 75% of the profit.
I estimate that I probably made a little less than $10 an hour from miniclip, but that excludes the sales to other websites.
I hope that helps. :)

Thanks, that's what I needed to hear :)

-EG

[sephiroth334]

hey why only this games??
there are more games!

[kirupa]

hey why only this games??
there are more games!The other games, while good, did not get selected by the judges to be on here :bad:

[Dunga]

If I had had 5 more days to work on my game, it would have gotten into the top ten... meh. As it was I only had about a week from when I learned about the contest to when it was due.

[mattiaswargren]

I voted for hackysack just because it was he most original it was the first hackysack game I ever played.
Mattias seems to have a knack for the programming and graphics. Your two games overall just seemed very polished.
Thanks :tb:

[mattiaswargren]

@radioaktive: i doesn't look like I'm winning, Mattias___ is (and he definitely deserves it)
and basically I got the footer already last november (i think so). :P

but since the task was not to create a game for the battle, but to submit one, I thought why not ;)
Thanks. But hell ... couple of days left ...

[mattiaswargren]

Only 97 votes? What is this?

[kirupa]

I'll make an announcement on the forums in the few days prior to closing voting :) That should get more people to vote.

[ya3]

heyyy,
just got back from holiday... w00t! im a finalist :D

...hold on... 2 votes? :(
oh well...

i like the Super Mario one, btw :P

[McGiver]

@mattias: I guess only the members that stay longer voted so far

[the_traveler]

man it kinda sucks cuz like... i was playing all the games and they are all really good, but i wish i made more damm levels for my game (mario). Its kinda funny that I spend so long on the engine but forgot about the levels and wrote them in the last 5 minutes of the contest deadline.

Thanks again for the people who are voting for me! And thanks to the people who didn't but are participating in this great comp.

[mattiaswargren]

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Hackysack
- Saved highscores since 11/7: 315

Barefoot Longjump
- Saved highscores since 11/7: 892
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[McGiver]

I'll make an announcement on the forums in the few days prior to closing voting That should get more people to vote. good idea.

[thumbs_of_fury]

it's all good, traveler. even with only having 2 levels it's got gameplay to spare compared to the others. i definitely played yours much longer than that longjump game that's winning... i was done with that in maybe a minute (though it does look very nice). yours doesn't even have to rely on the mario theme, you could completely replace the characters and it would stand on its own as uniquely yours.

btw i hear the guy who did that mario 3 movie cheated by continually using quicksave on an emulator to get everything perfect ;)

[the_traveler]

Yeah your right. According to his website and some awkwardly translated Japanese, he never intended it to be real. He used screen grabs from an emulator and basically did it frame by frame. But like, most of the stuff he did is totally possible. Last March I had to pass time for a flight from Canada to Austria, so i brought a GBA and basically played mario 3. By the time i was in the Munich airport I could do the first 4 levels better then him, then i came home and got the idea for the hopscotch game.

man, i dont know who's a bigger geek, him for doing it, or me for making a video game adaptation of his exploits.. haha

[dbarbarian]

Since we're all sharing our opinions I would like to express mine.

I think the reason that Mattias's game is winning is that it is simple. It is easy to get a hang of the game and does not have a very steep learning curve. It does take some fast fingers and excellent timing though. Simple and addictive (only with a highscore table though).

Mario hopscotch is another great game. It is very original, and it has some pretty impressive tile based coding (I hope it's tilebased). I do agree with you that it needs more levels, but it is quite fun the way it is now.

Personllay, I like McGiver's Blast a Footer the best. Sure, it may be small, but it is supposed to be a footer. And you know what they say, big things can come in small packages. The coding is very advanced (at least for me, :) ) I think I might know how you might have done it, but I wouldn't be able to do it at my skill level right now anyways. :)
The different weapons and weapon packages are great.

The fourth place game at this moment would be mine, and I won't bother writing about it because my opinion would be very biased, :).

I think that if the gamers took more time to get more indepth into these games before voting, the results would be different.

Of course, all the games here are terrific, and whoever wins will deserve it. :)

[McGiver]

thanks for the flowers :love:

makes me a biased too, but I don't really care.
the battle pong game got fewer votes than it might have gotten because people weren't sure it is a rip or not in the beginning. definately a game you can play more than once and it's still entertaining enough to make me click the link and loose some time I was supposed to be spend on other things, every time I come here in this thread.

[Jeff Wheeler]

just noticed an error in mcgivers... how does the land that has no land above it float??? :P

[McGiver]

it's stapled to the scenery ;P

[Jeff Wheeler]

oh, I get it, my bad, of course it is :D

[GW02]

I personally thought that the Mario game was very well thought out and pretty professional-looking (though there were a couple of other excellent contenders!)

It got my vote.

[ya3]

I personally thought that the Mario game was very well thought out and pretty professional-looking

yeah, but that's cos all the graphics were taken directly off the original game...
either way, it got my vote too :P

[The_Vulcan]

Well I voted for my pick a couple of days ago...

I just came back to have another go of it :D

[thumbs_of_fury]

Good points, dbarbarian. I was probably a little harsh earlier and I apologize. I can't even make games yet so I have no appreciation for the hard work that goes into these...

[attuned]

They are all very well done! Nice job to everyone. Especially Mario, Hackysack, and Tunnel 3d, they were exceptional.

[GW02]

yeah, but that's cos all the graphics were taken directly off the original game...
either way, it got my vote too :P


Well, true.... :P

I still think it was quite well done. Framerate could have been a little higher, too.

[mattiaswargren]

This is kind of sick ...

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Hackysack
- Saved highscores since 11/7: 532 (url (http://www.votem.net/games/hackysack/asp/stats.asp?options=&sort=Highscore_Score))

Barefoot Longjump
- Saved highscores since 11/7: 2693 (url (http://www.votem.net/games/longjump/asp/stats.asp?options=&sort=Highscore_Score))
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[ruski_flasher]

go longjump! go longjump!

[idolthoughts]

woot for long jump