Gride wins the 4th place in 'Become a Rockstar' Flash Game Competition

Gride continues her victory run and wins the fourth place in ‘Become a Rockstar’ Flash Game Competition arranged by Mochiads and Gaia Online.

Because of a certain technical mishap Gride wasn’t able to enter the Audience Prize part of the competition at Gaia Online.

Thanks to Mochiads and Gaia Online for the competition! And players of course once more!

The List of games in top five

• 1. Captain Skyro


• 2. Earth Defense


• 3. Amberial: Nebulosa Realms


• 4. Gride


• 5. BoomsticK

Gride review at Jayisgames

Gride was our competition entry to Jayisgames game design competition #5. With Gride we, ooPixel, won 3rd place and the Viral Award.

The game has now been reviewed at Jayisgames.com.

It was a pleasure to read that :)

Gride got two prizes in CGDC competition

We made our newest game, Gride to participate in Jayisgames fifth Casual Game Design Competition.

And we won. Not only once but twice! We got the third place in main competition and we also won the viral award for having the most views. We had over a million more views for our game than the second most played game. We still get almost 100,000 hits every day for Gride!

Thank you everybody!

All the winners

1st place: The Last Canopy (by Easy Only! Games feat. Aidi and Dzaid)

2nd place: Super Energy Apocalypse (by Lars A. Doucet)

3rd place: Gride (by ooPixel (Jussi Kari, Marko Taali)

Best use of theme: Pieces (by SoybeanSoft)

Viral Award: Gride (by ooPixel (Jussi Kari, Marko Taali)

Audience Prize: The Last Canopy (by Easy Only! Games feat. Aidi and Dzaid)

New game: Gride

Now that Jayisgames has published Jayisgames Casual Game Contest entries, we are able to publish our game here too. So, enjoy!

Play Gride!

If you would like to host our game on your site you can one of these packages. We truly appreciate if you do!

1. Full package , includes all the files required. gride-directory need to be in the saem directory where you place gride.swf

2. Standalone package , includes only gride.swf. All external files will be downloaded from oopixel.com. This will likely work slower but it will work if your system only allows a single swf or if you do not want to consume that much of your precious bandwidth.

Edit: When using standalone package, remember to specify allowScriptAccess=”always” in embedded object tag. This let’s it contact oopixel.com and download sounds and images.

Play Gride!

Unofficial Mochiads haXe code repository

I might call it as unofficial code repository as it contains already almost all Mochiads code ported to haXe. Newest contribution is Mochibot code. It’s only a couple of dozens of lines but there it is.

Unofficial Mochiads haXe code repository

Ported Haxe leaderboards v1.3 to Haxe

Download here

Mochiads with Haxe - domain filtering bug

I was trying to set Mochiads running using code from http://snippetsnap.com/snippets/4337-New-Snippet. Everything worked like a charm until I tried to set up domain filtering. Ads were always displayed – no matter the filtered domains.

Thanks to matthew at mochiads forum I was able to fix the code.

Download Mochiads v2.1 code with fixed domain filtering

Mochiads leaderboards with Haxe

If you haven’t noticed, Mochiads has just released a new leaderboards system. Yeah, many leaderboard systems exist, but this particular one is pretty easy to use and it looks damn good. See Emanuele Feronato’s post about it (includes some screenshots to get the idea).

As I am coding my AS3 projects with Haxe, I made a port of Leaderboards API to Haxe. Mochiads does not offer this code at least yet. So here you go.

Download Mochiads leaderboards code for Haxe

New game coming soon!

A brand new game from ooPixel is coming out soon. ooPixel will take part in Flash Game Design Competition #5 at Jayisgames.

Deadline is 3rd March so expect our new game then!

haXe: More porting

I still haven’t got enough time for WLEngine development as I am working with my master’s thesis. I am planning to get it ready in November. After that, WLEngine development will finally go on again!

However, I have been thinking what to do with WLEngine performance issues. Oh yeah, it is working pretty smoothly in its tiny view but I would love to have it larger, and still playing smoothly.

Currently, WLEngine code is written to be compiled with MTASC (almost AS2 code). But MTASC will likely never support AS3 and there is already AS3 support in Flash Player 9. Also, Flash 9 promises a great preformance boost (some say AS3 works tens or even a hundred times faster than AS2, but of course it depends on the compiled software too).

Now, I have read about haXe compiler. It has AS3 support and it is a cross operating system compiler. Some tests at gamehaxe show us that haXe compiled AS3 is still much slower than pure AS3. But now there is more good news. HaXe can compile haXe code not only to Flash but also to standard AS3 code, which then can be compiled with AS3 compiler that comes with free Flex package. Of course I could use this compiler without haXe, but I see a great potential in haXe. HaXe also provides some additional functionality and libraries to work with.

Next thing to do is to translate AS2 code to haXe code which should be a pretty easy task. Let’s see if we can make that tiny WLEngine window larger after all :)