I just bought 2 sets of 3 Newgrounds posters from the store! The first set is to decorate my office, and the others will be going to 3 lucky NG users!

To keep things short, as part of the submission for my final year project at Uni I have to do a bunch of research for the game I'm making. Its a Flash RPG like Final Fantasy, something I dont think has been done properly in Flash before. Pretty!

Newgrounds seems like the perfect place to research my audience and what better to use as an excuse as "research" than a questionnaire? ;)

All you need to do for a chance of winning is comment this post with your answers to the following 10 questions about your opinions on RPGs. I will semi-randomly select 3 users to win the posters, simple as that! Its semi random as the quality of your responses will probably influence how likely you are to win, and spam wont be considered!

Here are the questions:

1. What kind of styling do you like to see in an RPG game?
Classic middle earth
Steampunk
Sci-fi
Fantasy
Other (list?)

2. What kind of combat system do you like to use?
Turn based
Real Time

3. Is the story important to you when playing an RPG?
Yes
No
A bit.

4. Do well-presented Cutscenes improve the experience for you?
Yes
No
A bit.

5. Do you prefer a levelling system to be simple and easy to use or deep and complex?
Simple
Complex
A balance of both.

6. What's your favourite Flash RPG series? Choose from the list or add your own.
Sonny
Epic Battle Fantasy
Monsters Den
Another Small Favour

7. Are you more likely to play an RPG Flash game if it has good graphics?
Definitely, I love the pretty!
It adds to the experience but game play is what pulls me in.
Graphics aren't important to me.

8. Is there anything you dislike about RPG games in general? Please list.

9. What do you consider to be the most important aspect of an RPG game?

10. What's missing from Flash RPG's? Is there anything you really want in a free flash RPG that you've never seen before?

And thats it! Any further comments/ideas/thoughts are greatly appreciated! Once again you are more likely to win a poster if you put some thought into your answers!

I will choose and contact the winners on Friday and ill send the posters off as soon as I receive them. Ill try to give winners the poster they want but obviously thats impossible if everyone wants the same one...

zOMG!es as is it now called is finished and going through bidding on FGL right now, so expect to play that very soon! Its reminiscent of Penguinz but also has a lot of differences, the weapons are a lot more varied and the reload system adds a lot to the gameplay. Plus theres more blood. Yes! Heres an image.

Thanks, Im really grateful to anyone who fills out the questionnaire!

Heres a very very early screen!

Bubble Guinea Pop has FINALLY been released on Newgrounds after weeks of faffing and waiting. It didnt get quite the response I was hoping for (didnt even register on top 10 of the day), and we stupidly released it on halloween. I guess NG isnt really the audience we were aiming for for this game anyway, but its my home and it hurts when my games fail here! Still, I really enjoyed making it and I actually think its a great game, so please go and give it some love!

Zombie game is going great, still unnamed, ive just finished animating the ending cutscene (any good voiceactors fancy doing a line or 2, PM me!), and now its just a case of finishing touches and finding a sponsor. Tom said he liked the look of it, so fingers crossed :)

After thats finished im going head first into my Turn Based RPG game. I really hope I can pull this off, if I can it should be a really memorable game with shweet graphics and some great gameplay.

Here is the 2nd playable character in the game, shes pretty badass, also one of the first female characters ive ever done! I havent done any animation for this one yet, but it'll all be fully fbf like the zombie game and penguinz 2, im trying get get away from tweening as much as possible.

One last thing, im thinking about setting up a games arcade with a blog running along side it. Its not gonna be a carbon copy of all the 1000's of identical shitty looking arcades which run off the mochi feed. My aim is to add 1 game a day, which will likely be chosen from the best games posted on Newgrounds and kong among other sites. Hopefully coupled with a slick layout it'll prove a great alternative to easily find a load of great games. Any one got any ideas for names? I wanted to go with a good brand name rather than somethinggames.com, I think they stand out and are more memorable. Although I did like Freshlybakedgames.com, which is available ;)
: is super-craze.com shit?

Ill leave you with some more art, go play and vote Guinea pop!

Hey, been a while since Ive made a post!

Guinea Pop should be released very soon, just been sorting out the final sponsorship with Bored.com, check out my previous post for more info about that.

So ive started another quick game with LongAnimals. Its been a while since Ive done a mindless violent shooting game, what better time to do my first zombie game? It should be a fresh new twist on the sidescrolling shooter and im pleased with how its turning out! Here are some dying zombies.

Another project Im just starting is my final major project for Uni. I can make pretty much anything I want, and Ive decided to do a Flash game, to improve my programming skills and personal enjoyment.

I basically want to make a really simple Flash version of Final Fantasy, similar to matt-likes-swords games but with sidescrolling sections, random battles and cutscenes. I have from now until March to work on this, so it can be a pretty big project. Its something that hasnt been done that often in Flash and I think there is a lot of room for the genre to expand on this platform. Hopefully I can pull it off, im still to release a final version of the first game I programmed! :)

Heres a mockup of one of the 2 main characters from the game.

In other news I made an entry for the 2010 Calender, it didnt make it into the final calender but I still think its pretty sweet, check it out!

Ive also started a new metal band recently, we are still looking for a bassist but ive been writing songs with my other guitarist(<3) and Ive started recording some of them, Here is the first recording, it still needs a lot of work but its getting there :) I have another way better song in the works at the moment, which ill post sooon.

Anyway, enjoy some zombies being blown up, the game should be finished soon. Keep an eye out for Guinea Pop!

Ive been working on this one for a few weeks with LongAnimals now, it was meant to be a quick one but it turned out pretty sweet and we decided to put a bit more time into it.

The game is up for bidding on FGL now, just needs some final tweaking and its done.

Check out the trailer:

Keep a look out for the game, should be released in a week or 2!

If you havent already you should play Heat Rush, a fantastic game by LongAnimals which didnt really register on the radar here. Its basically Outrun/Pole Position in Flash, check it out!

Ive also been doing some more work on Julius Mardroms Marvellous Mind, which ive had on my plate for a while now. Still not sure what im gonna do with this one but its looking better and better.

Back to Uni soon, I wanna make Penguinz 2 so bad :(

Oh yeah, if anyone wants to chat about anything hit me up on AIM, i only have like 4 contacts :)
aim: j1mpuk

Screenshot from the new intro movie:

Just thought id post an update on my summer games for anyone that cares!

Redneck Downhill Challenge is going great, its been a lot of work with the editor LongAnimals is developing, but it will allow us to put huge levels together quickly, and is also a great framework for other games we can make in the future.

Ive done the movieclips and backgrounds for 5 levels, and Im really pleased with how diverse and different each one is. Hopefully the range of visuals and colours will keep eyes entertained and offer something visually new every time you reach a new stage.

Check out a nice big image here showing off 2 of the level templates! Fuck the 464x464 image limit!

Another game ive been working on, again with LongAnimals using the Redneck Engine, is a quick physics based puzzle game. The idea is to use guinea pigs to blow bubble gum balloons over animals and free them from the grip of the Anti Pig.... or something like that. Haha yeah its random as hell but i lover those little fuckers, just something quick to get me used to using the level editor.

If youre interested in flash game development and micro transactions (mochicoins?), check out this article, it really opened my eyes to how little we are actually getting for our work compared to other media industries with audiences in the tens of millions.

Ive been thinking a lot about this and I may well go down the micro transaction route with Penguinz 2. Id never charge for the whole game or even half the game, but making money from selling extra content means we can spend longer making better games and they can be a long term investment. This hopefully means we'll be able to spend 6 months + making the fucking best flash games ever, and be able to afford to eat. We'll see motherfuckers, peace out.

Quick post cos I made one the other day, but Penguinz was featured in News of The World yesterday, which is a national paper here in UK!

Pretty fuckin' awesome to actually see the little bastard in there!

Check it out!

Hey, havent been around here for a while. I took a month or so off, starting with Download festival. I had a fucking amazing time, pretty much every band I saw were great (I mainly enjoyed Killswitch, Opeth, Clutch, this, Fei Comodo, Meshuggah, fightstar really surprised me, slipknot...)

Then i got home, found out how much Penguinz made off kongregate and partied for a few weeks and bought myself shiny new 2.8Ghz Macbook Pro. I got so fuckin tired of Flash crashing and shit going wrong with Windows computers, I decided to give Apple a try. They got it right for my phone and i use OSX quite a bit at Uni. I love it. Nothing has crashed so far and it just looks cool as hell.

So yeah, time to do some work. If you havent already played it, check out Medieval Mercenary! It did alright in the portal, but paid for my macbook so Im happy :)

Next is Redneck Downhill Challenge with LongAnimals (he has been going mental releasing stuff lately). Had this one on the backburner for quite a while but its time to knuckle down and make it as shit hot as possible. This one isn't a contract or anything, so its gonna be a case of making the best game possible. Im quietly very excited about the art in this one, I think its gonna look great!

Anyway im gonna go watch The Hangover then make some god damn games. Check out Homonid chillin' on the Mac :P

: also rednecks

So its pretty much the start of the summer for me now, Uni is almost over and ive got a load of stuff going on over the next few months.

Medieval Mercenaries is as good as done now, all the art is in there, just needs gameplay tweaking. Its actually turned into a really fun game, its so very satisfying hacking hordes of enemies and seeing them going flying into pieces, blood splattering on the screen...

The different weapons mix up the gameplay well, and you find yourself switching between them for different situations, which I like. The enemies are more varied this time around and a lot of them have a few different attacks, which again mixes stuff up a bit. So yeah, thatll be out pretty soon, depends how long armor games hold onto it!

So, power of 3, how fucking exciting does this sound? I think this could turn into the biggest thing Newgrounds has done, some of the groups look amazing and im REALLY looking forward to seeing what people come up with. I dunno what the hell is gonna happen but I think everyones in for a massive treat at the end of the summer. This will truly demonstrate the power of our community.

Ive managed to team up with Luis and Glaiel, which im fucking stoked about. These guys are my idols and ive literally been playing their games for years, its going to be amazing to get to work with them and we've already started throwing some really cool ideas around. Im going to put everything ive got into this, its a massive opportunity for me and I wanna show everyone what im made of.

Ive got another game on the horizon which ive mentioned before, Redneck Downhill Challenge. Im not gonna go into any details, but its something a bit different that im really enjoying doing the artwork for. It should turn into a sweet little game too, and should hopefully pwn games like shopping cart hero and learn to fly which are doing so well at the moment.

<<< I did a newgrounds portrait, what do you think? Feels pretty fuckin wierd drawing myself, looks quite a lot like me though which im surprised about!

So I got loads of shit coming up, as well as a 6 week work placement with the guys that make all the Lego and hannah montana flash games!

Hey, I went a whole news post without mentioning Penguinz 2 ;)

Here be dragons!

EDIT: Oh snap, my name just changed! Now you can all know me as everyone else does :) Cheers Luis/Tom!

Hey, ive just made a post on my blog if anyone likes my stuff, got lots more pictures and things of upcoming stuff!

Medieval Mercenaries is coming along well, I imagine it will be finished in about 2 weeks. Keep a look out for it!

Im getting more and more anxious to start Penguinz 2. I have SO many ideas swimming around my head and a really good idea of exactly how the game will be. Ive started planning enemies and bosses and im really looking forward to getting these guys nailed :)

Anyway more on that in a month :)

For now, big angry ogres:

Been working on a new game with LongAnimals for ArmorGames.

They said "blood is good", so Ive made it my personal target to make this game as bloody as possible, if not only to piss off the people who complained about the blood in Penguinz :)

Should be fun, and finished within a month!