Friday, October 31, 2008

Congratulations to..

TheyCallMeS and Tarlanon! Both of them became moderators yesterday.
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Challenge 14: Mickey's next!




This weeks challenge is Drop Dead. In Drop Dead you basically fling the bear into things to try to cause as much "damage" as possible. The winner will be the person with the best overall highscore, it doesn't matter what scenario you achieve it on!

Notice! Drop Dead has blood effects, so if you aren't comfortable with them don't attempt this challenge!

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Here are the challenge results for Pop Priates:

1st Roger831x15 with 50049

2nd Kovec with 49189
3rd Andyroo with 30239
4th teh_awsomeness with 22367
5th ItBeNickUo with 19355

Congratulations to everyone! And thanks for participating!
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

It's birthday time, Outrightchaos bithrday time

Today is one of DM1's oldest regulars birthdays: OuTrIgHtChAoS! Today (Monday) he turns 18, so how about leaving him a happy brithday comment/shout. And maybe play and rate one of his awesome games 5! (Links to his games below)



Best looking drawn cake I could find on google!


Sweet games, by Chaos:
Secret Message
Power Hunter
Kongregate Dodger
DM1 Quiz
Ceiling Cat Wars (He's watching you so rate 5/5)
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Graveyard

(RIP SirKoolAid)

It was Marh. And ItBeNickYo.

Now, I expect a eulogy in the comments section by Tuesday. Class dismissed.
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Monday, October 20, 2008

DM1 birthday project

I thought it might be a good idea if we collect birthdays from our DM1 regs. Everyone loves hearing "Happy Birthday!" so why not?

If you would like to get a happy birthday post and hear it many times in chat leave a comment here, or post in the forum topic. (Use the forum topic if you aren't lazy!) You can also find a list of the birthdays collected in the forum topic.


Forum topic

(Thanks to Nick for the idea!)
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Challenge #13: Digital Defender

Hey guys, this week i have chosen the game Pop Pirates suggested by Kovec. This game is a classic scrolling shooter game where you are attempting to retrieve your music files which have been stolen by the "Pop Pirate" virus. This weeks challenge is to retrieve as many kilobytes of music as possible. Good Luck and Have Fun!

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Challenge Results

Here are the challenge results for Music Euphoria:

1st kovec with 56540 points.
2nd Chitown15 with 25040 points.
3rd Andyroo with 4730 points.
4th Shotsflying with 3370 points.
5th Caricat with 1980 points.

Congratulations and thanks for playing!

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Argue (About everything, well within reason)



Kongreagte's first premium game was released yesterday, the game is, Argue (About Everything). In Argue you pick debates with your opponents, over any variety of issues; anywhere from "Mario is better the Sonic", to Obama is better the McCain.

While being a "premium" game, argue has no "buy" there will only be one other premium game that won't have purchasable component. That is both a good and a bad thing; on one hand you have every part of the game, on the other there isn't more to it, should you indeed really like it.

Argue is also very interactive, when you're arguing your arguments will appear on the main screen for everyone to see. The interactivity is by far among the best I have ever seen in a flash game. You can create arguments; debate anyone; even upload images for your argument. The game also has a full in-game scoreboard run through kongregate. (Which right now our very own TheGhostGamer is on top of. GO GHOST!)
The gamplay itself is pretty simple: you send your arguments it your opponents, and attempt to try to cover more ground. It uses a a "rock, papers, scissors" system for which argument beats which. As I said, the game is pretty simple, but yet has a good amount of strategy at the same time, which tends to make it "Love it or hate it". You will either be addicted, or be board within 3 games. It should be noted that games themselves only last a couple minutes, five at most.


It should also be noted the Argue will get badges, and maybe even a DM1 game night. The badges might have to wait until the servers get updated though.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Shoot up them tutorials!



Today Kongregate launched its “Labs” section along with its “shootorials” series. The idea behind these is to help new developers create a basic game. Along with the shootorials series the Labs also has a forum, and soon “new developers” kits; which will provide new developers with art and codes, among other things.

Oh yeah, did I mention that the person that uploads the best rated game, who hasn't yet uploaded a game will win extra prize money. See contest rules here

You may also notice that anything that has to do with the shootorials will have a black background with a graffiti look; this is because the shootorials were sponsored by Scion.


And here's the link to the above mentioned forum.

Get developing, NOW!
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Challenge #11: Musical Madness

This week, i have chosen Musical Euphoria for your challenge. It is another colorful music-based game from Coolio-Niato. In this game you must hover your mouse over green balls to "activate" them. Activated balls will explode with the beat of the music giving you points. For your challenge you must muster as many points as possible. Good Luck and Have Fun!


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Challenge Results

Here are the results for D-Blocks:

1st kovec, finishing all 20 levels in 966 seconds.
2nd roger831x15, finishing all 20 levels in 2155 seconds.
3rd joshhh finishing 9 levels.
4th Andyroo finishing 7 levels.
5th Chitown15, finishing 3 levels.

Congratulations and Thanks For Playing =D

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Quirks - Cake Shop

*starts new category*
Quirks is a new category devised by me to rule the blo-- *ahem*. Anyway, they'll have awesome things that I like, and you might. Enjoy!

In games these days, it's hard to find games that are high quality, fun, enjoyable, entertaining, and laughable at the same time. In fact, there is only one on Kongregate. No, it isn't Sunny, Protector, Simple Maze Game, or Hedgehog Launch. No, it's a game with much more heart than that - elefun's Cake Shop. To truly understand the marvels that this game is, one must look no farther than the opening tutorial.

As the Good Book (well, imaginary voice on your screen, hereafter referred to as the Cook Book) says, "Take the Apple Jam. Now throw it in the bin." This classic sentence sets the mood for the rest of the enthralling game. You are able to earn upgrades. I'll spoil just two of these so you can more fully realize the goodness that the game is: a Cotton Candy machine, and a Pomegranate Juice dispenser. Who would have thought that these would inspire so many. This game is in highly good taste - pun intended. With that, I urge, you, in no uncertain terms, take up the Cake Shop, and don't disappoint the customer.


Cake Shop receives the Quirk Badge (can someone make one please?)!
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Kongregate Halloween Header Contest

Once again Kongregate is having a contest amongst its users to see who can create the best Halloween inspired header. For all the information see AlisonClaire's forum topic

Lets see how DM1 users can do in it. I myself am going to make a few.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Hidden Gem: Starfighter Defender


Most of us know about Starfighter Disputed Galaxy, the very popular multiplayer strategy/action/ a star treks fans dream game. And because SF: DG was/is so popular Ben Olding (DJStaika) decided to make a turret defense game to celebrate its one year anniversary. Starfighter: Defender puts you right back into the Starfigher universe and doesn’t disappoint. The game actually looks just like SF: DG except this time you’re playing from the space stations prospective. The game is really solid, and should not be a hidden gem at all; the ratings should be .50 higher in my opinion.

The game has no weak points except that the game can get a little repetitive, other than that I dare you to find a flaw in it. I mean the graphics are great, the gameplay is smooth, and the sound is awesome. And if you’re a fan of the game there’s replay value in playing as both aliens and humans, and trying to improve your score. The game also has API scoring for all the high-scores.

I think if there’s another underdog week Starfighter: Defender stands a great chance of getting a badge or two.

Starfighter: Defender receives my Hidden Gem Award!

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

DM1 Kongai tounament is OVER!

The final match was a close hard fought battle in between myself and physcomonkey. It went down to our characters last breaths, and on the final turn I struck down PMKs last character with only 18 HPs remaining on mine.

I would like to thank everyone who joined the tournament. it was fun.

Yay me btw!! :)
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Monday, October 6, 2008

New game night

With Acrony night dying and the idea of game nights being popular i think we should try to do more of them. So what games should have game nights, and when?

A few possible games are:

Acrony
Kongregate Racing
Click Upon Dots
Artillery Live
Kongai

Or maybe something I overlooked. And what night do you guys think would be cool? Keep it Saturday, or maybe a week night.

Leave a comment, or post your thoughts in the forum topic for this.
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Sunday, October 5, 2008

DM1 forum!

So due to boredom, curiosity, and wanting something that can supplement to blog with more user interactivity I have created DM1 it's very own forum.Use this forum to talk about anything DM1, get to know users that you might not from chat due to being in different time zones, post your thoughts on what DM1 needs, and just have fun!

And make sure you let me know what you think about it!

See forum here!
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Hidden gem: Ba-Boing


Whatever happened to the cute friendly games of old? Well in short they got put down thanks to games with BFGs. Now, don’t get me wrong here, I love BFGs as much as the next guy, but I still enjoy a nice “happy” game. But why, you ask? It reminds me very much of the old “Mario” like NES games that I grew up on, even though I should have gotten a SNES or a N64, thanks dad! But I digress…

Ba-Boing is a simple, fun strategy game where you have to guide your bears to the wormhole to get to the next stage. None of the puzzles are hard to figure out, some take good timing, but the game itself is fairly easy. Ba-Boing also has no real weak areas: The gamplay is good, the graphics and artwork is very good, and the sound and music is also top notch (I love the “yay!” your bear says when he gets to the wormhole). The only somewhat weak areas are the replay value you can easily beat the game in 30 minutes or less, and the bug factor; the game can feel very glitchy at times.

Also note that the co-developer of Ba-Boing, crazycruiser is a true friend of DM1. He helped me a ton when I first took DM1 (He was actually going to be a room mod before they got canned.), and he deserves a lot of credit for DM1 being what it is today.

So friend vote the hell out of Ba-Boing!


Ba-Boing earns my Hidden Gem award.

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Challenge #10: D-Challenge

First of all, i would like to apologize that i didnt get this challenge out yesterday as i was fairly busy... Anyways for this weeks challenge game i have chosen D-Blocks. In this game you must remove all the blocks from the screen using the arrows at the side of the screen (There is an in-game tutorial which explains it better so I'm not going to go into much detail) This week's challenge is to complete as many levels as you can (If multiple people manage to complete all 20 i will decide the winner by how fast they complete them)

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Challenge Results

Here are the challenge results for Flash Gear Solid VR: The NIKITA Missions:

1st Andyroo with 41320 on Level 20
2nd kovec with 57880 on Level 20
3rd roger831x15 with 58460 on Level 20
4th o0John0o1 with 15760 on Level 13
5th WingsofChaos with 6800 on Level 5

Congratulations And Thanks For Playing!!!


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