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Today we have a really cool take on the rocketman/heli game genre (anybody remember Hot Air Bloon?)

Helirocket is original in several ways, firstly you have a defined level as opposed to an infinitely long randomly generated landscape. The objective is to reach the enemy base, avoiding touching the walls as you go. You need to collect as many ally rockets as you can along the way to boost your score. You can also destroy baddies along the way as well as slow time down for a short period to enable you to do some quick little manouvres to collect things on the way.

Beat my score!

Play Helirocket now!

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The day has come finally. It’s been as long a wait for us as for many of you,  trust me. I remember in the build up to releasing BTD3 we thought that we pretty well nailed it. At that time we were 319 days past BTD2 and we’d worked hard to bring everybody something we loved (and many of you loved it too).  This time we are 419 days on (and 2179 blog comments with 415178 views) from BTD3 and we are proud to bring you Bloons Tower Defense 4.

This time we’ve not only stretched out the whole scope of the game with more Bloon types, more tower types and more maps, but in doing so we’ve also stretched out the range of abilities this game will suit. The very easiest mode is easier than before. The very hardest is eye-wateringly difficult. It’s through this that we hope we’ve brought you all a much longer playing experience than ever before and something that people will enjoy playing for at LEAST the next 12 months.

Keep your eyes on the blog for updates etc

Happy playing!

Play Bloons Tower Defense 4 now!

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OK so I leaked a gameplay vid of this last week and now the real thing is live.

Basically Power Pinball is in the same vein as Power Pool and Power Golf. Take a game I like but am no good at and turn it into something I like even more, but ultimately am still not that good at

Pinball is essentially a game about lots of noise, lights and tremendous scores. Power Pinball I believe takes off where regular pinball falls short. And we got rid of those annoying “lose” channels that so many pinball machines have!

This game has a bit of depth so if you find yourself losing with a score of less than 1 Million, persevere, a whole bunch of neat stuff gets unlocked as you play on.

Play Power Pinball now!

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After aaages of waiting, the legendary Sean Cooper has released Shadez 2, and boy was it worth the wait.

This is a real-time strategy game that revolves around the protection of the planet from an invading alien force. You are required to build a wide variety of factories and buildings to enable you to tech up your defending (or attacking) force.
The game has a nice easy build up of difficulty, I had no trouble winning the first few battles, but the challenge ramps up nicely later in the game as you unlock more powerful units and discover ever increasingly challenging Alien hordes.

Thoroughly recommended!

Play Shadez 2 – Battle for Earth now!

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Hi all, I thought it’d be fun to release a gameplay vid of our upcoming games. This one is the third in our “Power” games series, Power Pinball (the others being PowerPool and Power Golf)

Like the others the idea is to take a fun thing like pinball that has been done heaps in flash games but add our own twist. Unfortunately I’m not great at playing yet, but I can tell you the game has a lot of depth and all kinds of neat stuff happens.

Enjoy!

Play it now —> Power Pinball!

Well this is pretty exciting for me, today (well, yesterday) I’ve put up the first RTS to appear on Ninja Kiwi, and it’s kewl.

Steam of war is a no-nonsense game about capturing territory.  Each mission objective you complete unlocks a new unit type to bolster your army. The scope of the game is fairly compact, and given the missions can only be completed in a specific way, I’m not sure how much replay value there is. That said the game has plenty of depth and the later missions offer more complexity and difficulty. This is one of the new generation of flash games we loudly applaud. It’s of a very high production value from the screen shakes and graphical polish to the sound production. Thoroughly recommended!

Play Steam of War now!

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Mix together a simple art style and the hero is what appears to be a seriously unstable jelly compound and you have the game Jellyman.

This is an incredibly fun “get to the exit” type of Puzzle game like Boombot or Meeblings. In Jellyman you control the pink Jellyman character with arrow keys to fly around the screen collecting Jelly coins. In your way are an array of nasty spikes, bombs and lasers (the usual fare in these types of games ) The difficulty ramps up fairly quickly and every five levels you can expect to find an epic mega level that should have you dying plenty of times.

What I really liked about this game was the controls were pretty simple. It’s not super-easy to control Jellyman as he’s a sensitive poppet and will inevitably explode into pieces several times before you get it right but dammit you have to try right? How else will you get to see all the levels?

Play Jellyman now!

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Now you can enjoy those trips to the doctor’s waiting room with BTD in your pocket!

This is live in New Zealand at this point and probably Australia. It looks like the release date of Oct 3rd means a literal rollout at 12am through the territories!

Southern hemisphere win!

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Okay, the game is functionally complete and undergoing minor tweaks now, and will be released on October 26th 2009.

As usual comments are welcome but please don’t bother asking for new features or a closer release date, neither will happen at this point in the game.

Here’s the first 17 levels

And here are levels 18-25.

Enjoy!

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It seems like all developers and their dogs have had a crack at the highly entertaining Match 3 genre of games. We have our own popular Bloons Pop3 as our hat in the ring, and here’s another genuinely clever and entertaining approach.

The story behind Freebees is simple and fits well, you need to rescue a certain amount of bees from their cells by matching colours together to form collections of 3 or more, when you do this the cells become grayed out and the bees are released. What’s neat is the cells can be recycled by placing a cell of the same colour next to the grayed ones, this brings them back into play (sans bees) by allowing them to be used again to make matches.

It’s an innovative take on the game and definitely worthy of a feature here. The levels are all dynamically generated too which means if you get stuck on a certain level you can continue to play lower levels until your skills develop.

You must have a look at Freebees, the thumbnail does not do it justice Play now!

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