Been pretty busy these last few weeks working on my small soldiers game. Also got my hands on a starcraft 2 beta account  few days ago.. And I don’t think I’ve slept since!

Anyway, on to the news!

Spam Overload

If you’ve been to my site in the last few weeks, you may have noticed a ridiculous amount of massively-sized comments selling auto insurance (thank got they weren’t penis enlargement advertisements). Ive spent quite a while hunting down and destroying every last one of them! The comments are now completely spam free! Also installed something to auto block spam comments for now on, so it should be smooth sailing from here on out.

Coming Soon

Been working hard on some things lately. In a few days I’ll toss up another preview of the small soldiers game, this time with two playable levels, yay! Also just for fun, I’ll throw up some older files of Raze back when I was developing it. (They’re pretty funny hehe).

Questions Answered

Because of all the spam that has plagued this site lately, I’ve not really been able to read any of your comments. Taking a look now I see that there are a lot of questions, here’s the most frequent questions. (I’ll also be putting these up in the F.A.Q. Section.

General

Do you read the comments?
Of course I do! Every single one of em!

I’m interested in putting your game on my site, can I do this?
No problem, feel free to put any of my games on you websites without needing to ask! Of course, the downloads page isn’t finished, which I plan to get done soon. When it is, you’ll be able to put my games on your website with ease.

Hurry up and finish your new game! I’m bored!
I would love to be able to snap my fingers and pump out a game. But the truth is I work very very hard on my games to make sure they are very fun and of high quality. Raze actually took around 6 to 8 months to make with me and Addison (artist). The Small Soldiers game has been in development for about 3 months now, and is about 70% complete. If you’ve completely beaten Raze and want something new and fun to play, Newgrounds.com has tons of great games. As a matter of fact, just about every Flash game, ever, is on that website =)

It’s been a week, where’s your new post?
I’m a very busy (and forgetful) dude. I’ll try to make a new post at least once a week, but sometimes there may not be much to say yet, or I may have something really cool coming soon. So the posts may be late sometimes, and other times they may be early. It all depends on how much time I’ve got, and how much awesome stuff I’ve got to show/say.

Help

When I try to play your game, it just loads the post page…
The games here launch in a popup window. Your browser may be completely blocking popups. I’ll be putting a link to each game on a popular website that is based on playing Flash games, so you will be able to play the game just fine without problems.

Raze

I have some great idea’s for Raze 2!
If you have new ideas that’s great! Just stick em in a comment. I love reading your suggestions for a second Raze, just remember that we won’t be working on Raze for a while, we’ll probably be making another one or two games first, so don’t hold your breath.

Why not make Raze 2 now? Why make other games first?
The main reason we’re making other games is so Raze 2 can be much better. Making other games in the meantime allows us to improve our art and programming skills. For example, in the Small Soldiers game, I created a rendering engine that allows me to have thousands of characters and effects on screen without any lag, not even the slightest bit. Now I’ll be able to use that technique for Raze 2 when the time comes. We were also thinking of making a small online game first, just to iron out all the bugs and problems that may arise, so when we do online with Raze 2, we’ll be able to make it a very nice and hassle-free experience. Plus, after working on Raze for 8 months, we need a break from it lol. If I see another Space soldier, Alien, Zombie, or Robot, I might go Crazy!

Also, the extra games we’re making allows us to create a bigger/better portfolio. So when it comes time to make Raze 2, we can show off our games to big game companies, and possibly get a shot working with a big company, making Raze on Xbox360, PS3, or as an official PC game. (This means you’ll get to play the game full screen, and we’ll get to put in tons of sexy things including online play for sure).

Raze should be on PS3/Xbox360/PC, that would be sweet!
I agree! (Read above answers)

Does Raze remind you of Halo?
Actually, when making Raze we wanted it to be as original as possible. We tried to accomplish this with the characters (Aliens, Zombies, Robots), and with the guns (Flame Shotgun, Ice Chaingun, etc). Although, yes we literally plucked Sgt. Johnson right out of Halo. Why? Because Sgt. Johnson is just plain awesome.

Why use the name Raze? What does it mean?
We wanted a good one word name that doesn’t really mean much on it’s own, but sounds really cool, similar to the game ‘Quake’. The word Raze actually means to destroy a building. Since our game is about the destruction of Earth, (and Raze sounds cool on it’s own), we went with it.

Small Soldiers

Your Small Soldiers game needs a new title? Why?
If you google search ‘Small Soldiers’, all you see is the popular Disney movie. We can’t compete with that, so we need a new name, this way if someone were to google our new name, they would be able to find it, since the ‘Small Soldiers’ movie is already way too popular, and you’d never be able to find our game if we used that name.

Here’s some names you can use for it ____, ____, ____
Great, thanks for your name suggestions! I’m definitely hanging on to them all and waiting for the perfect name to pop up. Keep em coming! Maybe soon I’ll make a post showing all the name suggestions to far, which ones we like the most, and you guys can comment and say which ones you like too =D

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