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We were asked to produce 2 mini games as promotional tools for Marvel Comic’s new Avengers Assemble movie. The characters we had to work with were Hulk, Thor, and Captain America. This first game focuses on Captain America, where the player’s goal is to defend the Earth from falling meteors, rebounding them off the captain’s shield.

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Developed under our sister brand Frosty Pixel Games, PowerOn is a proof of concept for developing mobile games in Actionscript. It’s available as a free download for all models of iPhone and the iPod touch with iPad support to follow. The game features high res Retina graphics support, and makes use of Adobe’s new Native Extensions feature in Adobe AIR to bring native iOS features to a purely AS3 coded game. Read more over at Frosty Pixel Games.

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To promote Colorific’s “Woodworx Racers” paint and race kits, they wanted a driving game that was as fun to play as their kits are to build and paint. After brainstorming a number of ideas we decided to go for a head 2 head topdown arcade racer, based on the classic Micro Machines games.

Single player mode is a 3 lap time trial against the clock. Subsequent attempts are raced against a “ghost car” which drives the player’s previous best.

Two player mode is where the game get’s interesting though, with the players jostling for points.

The game features a large scrollable map, 1 and 2 player modes, highscore submission, local best times and “ghost car” saving, on track obstacles and lots more.

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We’ve had the privilidge of of working on some awesome games this year, for some big clients such as Lucasarts and Hasbro. We’ve created action games, puzzle games, quiz games, strategy games and platform games, and worked with clients here in the UK, and around the world in the US, Australia, Sweden and Thailand and the year isn’t even over yet!

And now, as the end of 2011 is in sight we’re putting together contracts for some big plans for next year. We have to keep some of the details under wraps at this stage but we already have a project lined up with a BIG name in the animation industry (let’s just say they’re not a “Micky Mouse” operation!)

And on top of all that, our new sister brand Frosty Pixel is well on the way to launching our first batch of mobile games, with 3 games for iPhone and Android due to launch this side of Christmas, and several more already in pre-production for launch in the new year.

Little did I know, 9 years ago when I founded Kernow Web Designs, that I’d end up developing games for the likes of Lucasarts, Hasbro, Orange or The BBC. I really do have a dream job – and I for one can’t wait for 2012 because I think it’s going to be our best year yet!!!

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Our latest game for Hasbro, to promote the new “Ultimate Prime” toy is a side scrolling shooter, loosely based on the classic Amiga game of the early 1990’s – Walker.

The game has a dark and atmospheric theme, with the player taking control of Optimus Prime in an effort to protect Bumblebee and progress through the level. Optimus is controlled by using the keyboard to walk, and the mouse to aim and shoot.

Click here to play Transformers – Ultimate Prime

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The game was developed for Hasbro to promote their Transformers “Lego” toys, Kre-o.

Launch of the game instantly doubled the average time users were spending on the kre-o site (and there were already games on the site) and the feedback we’ve been getting from both kids on the site, and the executives at Hasbro has been excellent!

It’s always great to see a game get past the finish post, and with some exciting projects lined up for the coming months (including a deal with Disney and Pixar!) it’s going to be an exciting time, but probably with lots more late nights

Check out Kreon Chaos over at the official Kre-o site.

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Every now and again I take on a project that I get really excited about, and this was one of them.  Hasbro’s latest range of toys, Kre-o, are Lego style construction kits based on the Transformers toys and characters.  Both full kits and “mini figs” called Kreons are available, and Hasbro wanted a game to show off the Kreons and the kits.

What we developed was a platform/puzzle game called Kreon Chaos where the player takes control of a number of Kreons.  All your favorite Transformers characters are in there, like Bumblebee, Jazz and of course Optimus Prime.  Each Kreon has a different special skill, so they have to work as a team to get through each level on their quest to collect the kit parts and defeat Megatron.

Kreon Chaos launched with the first 5 levels, set on Cybertron, with a further 10 levels (5 on earth, and 5 on the moon) to follow.  Hidden Kreons and extra levels are unlockable by playing the game, and also by entering secret codes on the level select screen.

The game was built using the FlashPunk framework which keeps the performance up even with hundreds of assets on each level, many of them animated.  It was our first game developed using FlashPunk, and we will definitely be using it in the future (check out my article/tutorial on the framework soon to be published at Flash Games Classroom)  The game was another collaboration with the awesome Ash Nicholls who handled the graphics for the game, leaving the game code and level designs to me.

The game saves user data such as scores and the time taken to complete each level, and includes online highscore submission and lead capture.  Look out for the world 2 and 3 updates later in the year!

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