The game’s currently in the early stages of development (with just the concept and a small amount of artwork done so far), expected to take around a month to put together. Some of the features we’re hoping to include are:

Large, scrolling art based tracks – I toyed with the idea of making it tile based, then ended up dismissing the idea, just because after trying it out on paper I realised it’s too restricting, and the play area won’t be more than 4 screens big. So the massive number of tiles needed would just make it more complicated to put together with no memory saving or speed increase.

Around 12 tracks to play – I wanted to make it more like the old style arcade games, rather than the tendency for Flash games to make each level independent and unlock them as you go. So it’s going to have around 12 tracks that you play through from start to finish, each game being different depending on what choices you make (upgrades etc.)

Garage – As well as racing the other cars, you’ll need to collect cash that appears on the track along the way. At the end of each race you’ll be able to spend the money in the garage. This is where you can have some fun upgrading your car. Planned upgrades so far are engine tuning (acceleration), engine tuning (top speed), tyres (give better traction for cornering), brakes (enable you to slow down faster to take corners).

There are a few things yet to decided, for instance:

Do we include weapons or just focus on the racing?

Should we include cumulative damage to be repaired in the garage? (Although this implies that the game will be over if you wreck your car).

Do we include jumps, gates, trains and possibly other hazards from the Super Cars 2 game?

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on these. Feel free to post them in the comments and I’ll keep checking back. Anyway, that’s about it for now, there’s artwork to be done!

How much was the seeding budget to achieve this, I hear you ask. Believe it or not the answer is absolutely nothing! The budget covered production only and was seeded by us, free of charge using natural methods only, not a single paid placement.

The fact is, if you have a great advergame you don’t need paid placements. While some other ‘viral game specialists’ are creating poor, substandard games that no one wants to play, with the sole purpose of advertising a product, we’re creating great games that people want to play and put on their websites first and foremost and it shows in the results. As I’ve said so many times before, it’s all down to making a great game, with the advertising being secondary. This way we can get huge exposure using only free channels, rather than having to push a sub-standard game by spending thousands (or sometimes tens of thousands) on top of the production costs, to pay for prominent placements on appropriate websites, as many advergame producers do. The fact is, paid placements aren’t necessary, putting the game first is and we prove it time and time again.

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This time it’s 16 levels of platform puzzle fun. Control the red Little Furry Thing who’s in search of her lost babies. Find all 5 and get to the exit within a time limit to complete each level.

Instead of the usual running and jumping we decided to make the main character bounce constantly and have a left and right acceleration control for movement (inspired by the iPhone accelerometer controls). We’re pretty pleased with the way it’s turned out, the control system adding a nice (if at sometimes frustrating) skill element to the gameplay.

It’s possible we may be revisiting this series of games at a later date, if we can come up with some more game ideas that will suit the little creatures. But in the meantime we still have The Village (which is currently on hold) and a few other Flash games in development.

You can play Little Furry Things World now and here are a couple of screen shots:

Anyway, we released the sequel to our popular puzzle game Little Furry Things a few weeks ago now and it’s doing rather well.

As well as vastly improved graphics we’ve ironed out some minor gameplay issues from the first game and added a few things. We’ve reduced the number of colours to match and given you 2 or 3 eyed furry things to worry about. We’ve also ditched the matching or rings or furry things and replaced that with 3 different ‘Furry Bombs’ that appear occasionally. The first type clears the line where you place it, the second  type clears a ring of furry things in line with where it is placed and the third clears all furry things on screen.

Here’s a couple of screenshots, and you can play Little Furry Things 2 now.

The main one we’re working on at the moment is a side scrolling horror first person shooter. The best way to describe the game is probably Operation Wolf meets Silent Hill & Resident Evil. We’re aiming for around 6 locations with an array of creatures for you to dispose of along the way.

As well as having multi-layer parallax scrolling we’re taking some of the visual effects we used in the Cyberkill game and building on them within this game. As well as atmospheric lighting effects, we’ve got some nice fog effects and are going for a cinematic look to the game by using a cinemascope aspect ratio and a nice real-time film grain effect on all visuals. Obviously all of this is not easy on the processor, so it’ll need a half decent machine to run.

It’s in the very early development stages at the moment, we’re currently working on artwork and very little coding has been done so far but we’re hoping for a release around May. Check out the video below for a look at an early running version of the forest level (no enemies yet) and keep an eye on the site for updates as the game progresses.

You can play the game now here. Or download the game pack to include on your own website here.

We’re going to be keeping an eye on the play stats over the next few weeks. If it continues it’s success at the current level we may consider porting the game over as an iPhone app. Keep an eye on the website for details in future.

In the meantime check out the Little Furry Things gameplay video below. We have more Flash game projects in the pipeline, details of those soon.

The game is a pretty original colour matching puzzle/skill game. The screen is split up into 8 tubes (going off in 8 directions). The object of the game is to send each different coloured little furry thing down one of the tubes. Match 3 colours in a row and you clear the 3 and score. If any of the tubes fill up it’s game over. You can also earn a nice bonus if you can match the colours in a ring as well as clearing all the tubes in one go.

It’s a simple, but highly addictive little game. Keep any eye on the site to play it when it’s released. In the meantime, here’s a screenshot:

It’s going to be something very different than the endless Tetris clones out there, I’d go as far as to use the word unique. Unfortunately there’s not a lot I can say beyond that at the minute. Once things are finalised and we get a bit closer to completion I’ll be posting more details no doubt. Keep checking back.

The object of the game is to get your boss to quit before he fires you by sneaking around the office and throwing office stationery at him, without getting seen.

You can play Work Wars now here. Here’s a little gameplay video:

The object of the game is to move around the office in a stealthy manor to get close enough to your boss to throw office stationery at him, depleting his will to work. All “weapons” have different properties. To progress to the next level you must make your boss quit before the end of the working day. You’ll need to be careful though, your boss doesn’t like you wandering away from your desk and if he catches you throwing things at him he issues written warnings without hesitation.

We’re hoping for a mid-December release, in the meantime take a look at this screenshot: