[PLAY] Bubble Islands!

super slick smashing sopping wet spinny flash fun jazz!

polished til it shines!

Great job! (I'm sad to see it plays very similar to a game of mine I never finished. heheh)

Can you tell us about your blur effects? Are they:

1. Real time Flash 8 blurs
or
2. Precalculated Flash 8 blurs
or
3. All done in photoshop an dimported

??

EvilKris
Well yes, who knows... it should be great to have a horror-themed and disturbing game made in flash with a real story (divided in chapters?); there aren't many of those...

Ray Beez
Oh, i'm sorry about your idea... But well, let's admit that it's not awesomely original :)
Anyway, blurs are done in real time, depending on the speed/movement (they were also my 1st blurs ever in flash, woohoo!). This is especially obvious when a bomb is exploding, the whole playing area of the character becomes blurry depending on the direction of the shaking (which is random)

Great job, the game positively reeks of polish! :)

Very very nice...

But you know this... man ~!

just doesn't get any better. awesome work dude!

Simply amazing! Well worth the wait, I must say...
When I saw the thread I did a double take, I didn't think this day would ever come!
Only small thing I noted was something you already mentioned but some soundFX seemed to be missing. So whats the next game I can wait a few years to play?

That has the be the sexiest thing I have seen in a very long time. Love the unlockable features idea. Great work mate. Number 2 come out soon?

Thanks for the new comments!

ChaseNYC
hahaha, your post made me laugh :p
Yeah, who knows how many years you'll have to wait for a new game from me...

Well, i'm working on some flash games "for money" atm, so of course the level of polishing is completely different (but i'll not miss to link them here).

Now, if you want to talk about the next independant game, i... have many ideas (and some of them are, this time, really original). But i'll stick with Bubble Islands, the next installment (not BI 2, but the real BI, though it should be different enough to be considered as a whole new game... +200% more content, do you believe it? :doughnut: I'm writing a game design doc right now explaining the new features, i'll not fully work on the code this time, so i'll have more time to deliver many new graphics, sounds and stuffs)

hooligan2001
Indeed, i have an idea for BI 2, the gameplay being totally different, but still arcade / puzzle / cute / award winning *cough* oups. But as i said, i'm still working on the real Bubble Islands... I guess i'll post some news about it soon...

Nice to see this finally available for public consumption Marmotte! It's like sweet candy made with your secret recipe - more sugary than the most japanese of import games and far far better than the majority of puzzle games I've played over the past year. A real showcase for flash and a stunning game it its own right.

One thing I've noticed with you - you never take shortcuts - everything is polished ad infinitum until it's 'right'. Kudos - t'is a gem :)

Hmm, I want you to make pixelboy version! I still love meteor busters! I think I was the first one on forums to get one of the secret codes(very well could be wrong about this).

Just curious, are there any plans in terms of selling this game/making money off of it (hope this is not a rude question)? Dreams/realities of porting this to a portable device?"

By the way, the site design is stunning as well. As many have said, you and your team are truly a thorough bunch.

Excellent work! There's not a single thing to complain about its just perfect and really addictive. Great job!

Rather enjoyed playing the game, but the link now appears to be down.

"but the link now appears to be down"

Sorry, due to increased success and so many clicks, my host (that offers unlimited monthly bandwith) announced that 42'000 sites it's hosting were unstable because of the game, and said that i would need a specific server dedicated only for the game... They decided to remove it, but I managed to transfer the game to another host, that is painfully slow at the moment... I will try to sort it ASAP

thanks for your patience ^_^ (and no, that announce isn't fake, used for commercial purpose and promote the game even more. I'm not Sony, hahaha)

If it happened to me, I think I'd be quite happy even if my host would kill me ^^

yep, but that situation is crappy T_T

(Especially when the public will have to play and vote for the IGF winner this year)

seems only one of the three competing for best web game is actually up right now...

I've wanted to play this since I first saw you post about it...and now the servers are "saturated"

0/10...I don't like saturated servers.


I really really really can't wait to play the actual game though seeing how post after post pronounces it's perfection.

Ok...

The game SHOULD be available again... I say "should" because the demand is... more than huge...

it's a real Tsunami, honestly... i'm using several servers only for that game, and it's still not enough. there are currently 340 connections / second...

:) Never make a real-time multiplayer game. You'd run out of bandwidth in seconds.