What if Google were a UNIX shell…
Well, it’d be like this: www.goosh.org.
Once again, it’s the simple things…
Tags: Google, On the Web, Programming, UI, User InterfaceSilverlight game popularity on MiniClip.com
The Zombomatic 3000 game which Terralever created for MiniClip.com is currently the third most popular game on the MiniClip.com site.
I am a personal fan (I like Zombomatic more than the later released Tunnel Trouble) of the gameplay, concept and execution. However, even with the game being promoted (it is featured on the home page) I would have guessed that the plug-in installation would have marginalized its potential.
Could Zombomatic make it to #1?
Tags: Games, Programming, Silverlight, Tunnel Trouble, ZombomaticA unified feed for Facebook Notes
If you’re a Facebook user and you have more than once blog, you’ve likely noticed there’s no solution to having Facebook’s Notes functionality consume more than one RSS feed to display with your profile. A simple solution is to aggregate all your feeds into a single source, and then provide that RSS feed to Notes.
I’ve tried a few free services and settled on one that does the job right. It’s called readr.com. The reason why I like this free solution the best is that it doesn’t monkey around with your feeds in a way that technically or aesthetically mucks up display on Facebook (which many other potential solutions did). Setup is incredibly simple, and there’s more to aggregate than just RSS feeds. Supported sites/sources include:
- MySpace
- Bebo
- Flickr
- Photobucket
- Blogger
- Wordpress
- Digg
- StumbleUpon
- YouTube
- last.fm
Er. Where’d the posts about Mac’s and online marketing go?
Since the middle of last year, all posts about the Mac/Apple have been published directly on my new(er) Macintosh-specific blog, On a Mac.
I also recently started a new online marketing blog - Online Marketing Performance.
These blogs were started as they held two of the main themes on this blog which were intertwined with a lot of posts of a fairly random nature. I’ll continue to post to this blog, but both of the aforementioned blogs will likely bet getting more and more attention as time goes on.
Tags: AdSense, Advertising, AdWords, Affilliate Programs, Analytics, Apple, Apple TV, Beacon, Black Hat SEO, Blog Promotion, Blogging, Branding, Design of Experiments, Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Platform, Facebook Platform Architecture, FBML, Google, Google Analytics, Google Labs, Google Website Optimizer, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Mac, MacBook Pro, Macintosh, Make Money Online, Monetization, Multi level Marketing, Multivariate Testing, Online Marketing, Page Rank, PageRank, Paid Content, Semantic Search, Social Media, Social Networking, User Generated Content, viral, Viral Marketing, YahooTerralever Silverlight 1.0 game on Miniclip.com
Last year Terralever took on the challenge of creating a game with Silverlight. In doing so, our overall goal was to release something compelling that coincided with Silverlight’s public coming-out party; establishing that casual gaming was a viable usage of the Silverlight platform. That game was called Zero Gravity, and it received a warm welcome from both casual gamers and the development community.
 Zombomatic Swap the conductors to connect them into a path for the electricity to flow. |
| Play this free game now!! |
A few months ago Terralever was again approached with a Silverlight game design and developement challenge: Create a casual/twitch game for Miniclip.com utilizing Silverlight 1.0. To be clear, Silverlight has evolved. The Silverlight team has released a more advanced Silverlight plug-in which allows far more flexibility in development. That said, Miniclip wasn’t looking to leverage that version of the plug-in. The game would need to be built with for the 1.0 plug-in.
Leveraging lessons learned from Zero Gravity, a team of Terralever designers, developers, and multimedia artists produced Zombomatic 3000, an addicting puzzle game. The game was created under an incredible time constraint, but the team wasn’t willing to push the game out until they were fully satisfied with the overall user experience.
I did not have much involvement in this project, and have to say I was surprised (in a good way) at the resulting game. The extra effort the entire team put into “getting it right” shows. Zombomatic serves as a confident marker in the casual gaming space as the first Silverlight game to appear on Miniclip.com, one of the world’s largest causal gaming web sites.
Congratulations to The Terralever Zombomatic 3000 team (alphabetical order):
- Craig Budwitz
- Chris Hill
- April Holle
- Jen Johnson
- Robert Neal
- Joel Neubeck
- Shannon Owen
- Ryan Plemons
- Casey Rayl
