Asteroids - HTML 5 Canvas and JavaScript demo. MAKE: Blog: IKEA gaming table. Eric Gradman, who brought us the awesome Trash 80 bluetooth “prank,” has posted a Flickr set for his cool MAME gaming system house inside of an IKEA dining table. IKEA MAME Dinner Table – [via] Link Related: Bluetoothing a Trash 80 – Link IKEA coffee table with recessed planter and LED light – Link Gareth Branwyn Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. Related. Atmosphir: Make Your Own Video Game Free for Mac, Windows, and Linux. 10 Most Popular Flash Games of 2008 — Mochi Network. One reason casual game startups are still confident in these recessionary times is that the top titles attract millions of players.
Our friends at casual game ad network Mochi Media have provided a list of the 10 most popular casual games hosted on its network, each of which is played millions of times every month on thousands of sites. Update: “The most common theme that can be seen in the [most popular] games is that they are very simple to play and amenable to almost any demographic,” company founder Jameson Hsu told me by e-mail. “Most of the games have simple control mechanisms and can be confined to just the mouse.” Hsu won’t say how much each of these titles makes from advertising, but claims that the top developers on their network typically earn four to five figures a year month in ad revenue. (Mochi emailed us to say they misspoke, so we’ve updated the figure accordingly.) What’s the secret to their success? “First of all, these games are simply fun,” Hsu said. 1.
Games: Flight Simulator in Google Earth 4.2.