I released Chibi Knight. I started it back in June of '08 shortly after completing Castle Crashing the Beard wondering what a more fully featured game in the same vein would be like. It fell by the wayside, but I'd go back and tool on it every once in a while. Finally, almost 2 years later, I polished it off.

At the last minute I thought I'd try adding in a few voiceclips from my 5 yr old daughter Bella...they worked out so well, I revamped most of the game to feature her voice!

I've been overwhelmed with the response. Big thanks to everyone who's played and given feedback!

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When I was 11, all my rich friends were getting the Air Jordan VI shoes. I was so envious, but too poor to afford them. 18 years later Nike re-released them, and my childhood dream has been fulfilled! I've coveted these shoes for so long, I kept a picture of them on my desktop, and even made this cartoon: Pico Wears... Now they're mine MOO WAH HAH HA!

Luis and I decided to keep track of our dev progress on Cave of Wonders. Maybe some of you will find the following stuff interesting/helpful...it's a lot of reading...

GAME DEMOS:
Prelim Boss Form Sketches
First Build
2nd Build - Boss Reveal Placeholder
3rd Build, fighting through 2nd Form
First crack at 3rd Form
3rd Form Laggy Missile interaction
Escape Added
FINAL PRODUCT!

CHAT LOGS
Base Idea
Prelim Development
Placeholder Skinning
The Name
3rd Form Revamp
Didn't Make Final Cut
Music
Scope Creep - Escape Idea
Finishing Touches
Game Over Screen Dispute
Launch Day
Post-launch Nerfing/Bug Fixes
Post-launch Parodies

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Jay is Games has featured games I've made exactly once. I think he has a personal chip on his shoulder against my stuff.

Even when he featured "Portal Defenders" he prefaced the actual review with so much "Warning: this game is ultra violent" explanation as to keep 80% of his audience from even trying the game out.

Luckily, any game they review gets into their end-of-the-year "best of" voting. So go vote for Portal Defenders and teach JIG what real quality is all about!

http://jayisgames.com/best-of/2009/act ion-or-arcade/

Scroll down to Portal Defenders and click the "Vote" button next to it. Vote once a day!

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I'm now a bandwagon twit. I've been suffering from the flu and opened a twitter account. Coincidence?

Follow me

One more plug for my t-shirt design. Previously, when I asked for your vote it hadn't been approved by threadless yet, now you should be able to actually vote on it.

Check it out and vote if you like it!

http://www.threadless.com/submission/2 42789/Ear_Regardless?streetteam=bomtoo ns

I woke up this morning and this idea for a t-shirt struck me.

I'm giving threadless a try. If you can, vote on my shirt so they'll print it :)

Thanks!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

I was so impressed with this demo video I had to share it. That's one game I'll definitely be looking to buy.

http://shankgame.com/

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Want to be part of the next huge NG project? It involves tons of artists from the art forum collaborating on a game styled after the SHMUP genre.

Sign up to participate in the art here:

http://blackmarketkraig.newgrounds.com /news/post/394930

For more info check this out:

http://bomtoons.com/ngshmup/

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After a long stint of only coding stuff, I got back to my artistic roots and helped out Joey Betz, a guru of as3 to make a sequel to his famous game Demolition City.

The graphics are a lot better in this version if I do say so myself.

PLAY DEMOLITION CITY 2!

I've always loved the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks.

I watched it again the other day and remembered there are some scenes with the little kid playing an old CGA text adventure.

I searched around to find out what game it was and discovered that it doesn't exist, they just made it up for the movie.

So, I took a few hours and made the game myself.

Check it out here and digg it if you can:

http://bomtoons.com/viewcomments.php?i d=31

I'll upload it to NG later this week.

If you remember, it was playing this game that ultimately reminded the grown up Tom Hanks of the joys of childhood and began his journey back to being a kid. The power of VIDEO GAMES to incite nostalgia.