Hi, I'm working on a flash shooter, it's almost done, but I need a background artist to help me finish it. There's a video and demo here:

http://www.flecko.net/projects.html

Basically, I need someone to fill in all of that gray space for me :) if you're interested, please email me some of your past work. max.abernethy@gmail.com

in progress flash game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp6uCI-Yqkw

demo at flecko.net

game in progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp6uCI-Yqkw

demo at flecko.net

So apparently I picked the worst day possible to post a game unrelated to clocks :p my entry got drowned in the clock day stuff, but the people who played it seemed to like it, so I was hoping a few more would check it out: More Beer , my new game.

And if you're interested, some screens of a new shooter I'm working on.

Hi. Some of you might remember the last game I made, Madness Interactive. I'm working on another game, nearly finished in fact, but I need an artist or artists to get it completed.

The game isn't in Flash (written in C#, runs on Windows PCs) and it isn't anything like Madness. It's modeled after Kuru Kuru Kururin, kind of difficult to describe otherwise, but it's sort of an action puzzle game.

It's free, so there's no money involved, it's just for fun.

The game needs 2D art, some tiling backgrouds and miscellaneous sprites. There's a lot of room to be creative, since it's basically just themes for the levels. Some of it could be done in Flash, but you're almost definitely going to need to use Photoshop, GIMP, or some other comparable tool.

So, if anyone's interested, please let me know, I'll get you a copy of the game so you can play it and see if you want to work on it. I'd appreciate if you linked me to some of your artwork so I can see what you've done, too.

A couple of people mentioned that they'd like to see a Madness console game. I would totally do it if the opportunity arose, and I know Krinkels would too.

There aren't nearly as many women making or playing video games. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is. Our society has a cultural image for both males and females that are reinforced from generation to generation - just look at the difference between how male and female children are treated, what toys they're encouraged to play with, what activities they're encouraged to take part in, and what social habits are expected of them. Both gaming and programming in general fall into the male cultural subset.

This isn't just inference, it's solid fact. Sales figures show that males purchase and play far more video games than females. I'm applying to colleges now, and I note that every school I'm interested with 'technical' or 'polytechnic' in it has a 75:25 Male:Female ratio, with the engineering and computer science programs in specific all being over 95% male. Nobody is -making- men and women divide into groups like this, it's just a split derived from the ideal gender roles society presents to us.

Maybe there's an obvious reason for this, but I'm missing it. Why would somebody vote '0' on everything to get more experience points? Cause after all, the only thing that exp really do is give you more voting power, and if you're just using it to blindly hand out 0's, what's the point?