OmnomBot gets a Makeover
OmnomBot's New Look
OmnomBot still lives. We swear. And he's getting a serious makeover. This game is taking longer than originally planned, but it's going to be all the better for it. I have a lot more to say about indie development time, bootstrapping a business, and ravenous robots- but I'll save that for another post.
Northway Games Adds Game Center to iPad AIR Projects
Game Center Leaderboard running in Word Up Dog for iPad- in Adobe AIR!
Northway Games, creators of award winning (and all-around awesome!) games for the web and iPad- like Fantastic Contraption, Rebuild, Word Up Dog, and Incredipede- are adding Game Center social features to their iPad AIR / Flash games thanks to our GameCenter Extension for Adobe AIR!
"It Took me less than an hour to pop it in to my FlashDevelop project, connect all the events and go. All in AS3, no Mac or Xcode required. Post scores, view achievements, all that good stuff with minimal effort," says Northway Games developer Sarah Northway, discussing her recent integration of Game Center in her upcoming iPad title, Word Up Dog.
Word Up Dog should be hitting your iPad pretty soon, and I couldn't be more excited about it. We'll keep you posted right here, and on twitter, with updates!
Announcing Native Android AdMob for Adobe AIR!
Milkman Games is very pleased to announce our newest extension for Adobe AIR 3.0: Native support for AdMob on Android! Monetizing apps on any mobile platform can be a challenge- but it's about to get a lot easier for Flash/AIR developers targeting Android. AdMob offers best in breed mobile ads for Android, and you can now display native ads in your AIR applications with just 2 lines of code.
We've put this extension through the paces with a production app - the new ad-supported/free Android edition of Aqualux, available here. The MMG AdMob Android Extension is extremely simple to use, while supporting all the key features you need to begin monetizing your games and apps straight away:
- Fast and easy setup
- Support for test ads during development
- Easy placement and alignment, automatic handling of stage rotation
- Create, destroy, hide, and show ads at any point in your app
- Events and logging for ad state (ad loaded, failed to load, link clicked, etc.)
And quite a bit more. The MMG AdMob Extension for AIR 3.0 is available now for $29.99, and comes with full documentation, quick start guide, sample app, and one year of e-mail support. Learn more and pick it up now in the Tools section.
Milkman Games just got indie-er…
The reason I can't ride a bike.
Twenty years ago, I brought home Basic Programming for Kids from the local public library, and started spending a lot more of my time on my family's VTech Laser 128 and a lot less playing outside with the other kids. For those who know me and marvel at why a 28-year-old man doesn't know how to ride a bicycle, you can now place the blame on Roz Ault.