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Now you can play the demo version of Flashteroids on your Netvibes page.Add it to Netvibes here:

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I visited Google’s London headquarters today for some training relating to Google Gadgets. I signed a non-disclosure agreement so can’t go into details, but suffice to say: those Google people are rather jolly clever.Here’s a Google Gadget that I’ve just made for Flashteroids.

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Please show your appreciation and vote for Flashteroids at TopWebGames.comhttp://www.topwebgames.com/in.asp?id=4531Thanks!

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I've put together this tool for putting Flashteroids on any website. It gives you a number of options, such as whether you want the free demo or the full game, and whether you want to host the game yourself, or just want a line of HTML to paste into your site, blog or MySpace page.Give it a go »

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If you're interested in running a small version of Flashteroids on your site, now you can. I've made a simple-to-install version that you may distribute freely. It even lets you resize the game to fit perfectly into your template. How good is that? Just click the second link below to get going.Download the Flashteroids embed kit***UPDATE***You no longer need to download anything. I've set up a

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Now it's your turn »

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Play now at Flashteroids.com »

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Well, it's pretty much there. I've worked my way to the bottom of the bug list and all the problems (that I know about) are fixed. That means there's a good chance I'll never have to go back to the dark ages of Flash 5 Actionscript again!There's one remaining problem - and it was there back in v1.2 - and that's frame rate. Flash Player won't maintain a high frame rate in certain web browsers.

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Level par times are now set. They're based on how quickly I can complete the level plus about 10 seconds. The gravity setting for has also been adjusted to suit each level. I've also implemented a load of smaller changes not worth mentioning.So it's just the sound effects to finish now. I got them half done but it got to 1am so I thought I'd better call it a day. I have a day job as well you know

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OK, the game is essentially complete, and it's fully playable. And you can play it right now, here. There are a few things that need ironing out and I've not yet finished preparing the new suite of sound effects so this version still has all the old set. I also need to set the level par times, which are used to calculate the time bonus when you complete a level in arcade mode. So when it gets

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I'm aiming to get the game finished by the end of the weekend. I've made a few more changes this evening.One thing occurred to me: you can run out of fuel so why can't the missiles? So now they do. After a their fuel is spent they lose all thrust and spin out of control, usually ending up crashing somewhere pretty soon. The screen grab above shows two (circled) that have expired.

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Play demo 1 »Play demo 2 »Play demo 3 »Play demo 4 »Play demo 5 »Play demo 6 »Play demo 7 »Controlsleft arrow = rotate anticlockwiseright arrow = rotate clockwiseup / down = thrustCTRL / space = fireIn-game commandsP = pauseS = sound on/offQ = quitThis is a list of all of the playable demos of Flashteroids 1.5+. These are not in order of difficulty, and represent only half of the levels in the

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You may think you recognise this level from the old game but it's changed and got a lot lot harder. This is one of the last levels of Fv1.5+. For hardcore Flashteroids veterans only!Give it a go »OR, if you want something a little easier, try this new one instead »Full game ETA 1 week!

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Apologies, once again, for the lack of updates. I ran into a busy patch with other commitments. I can guarantee that V1.5 of the game WILL be out sometime in the next month - i.e. August. I had intended to write some new music for the game but it's not looking likely that I'll have time so it'll probably end up having a version of the old tune.If you don't want to keep checking back, I recommend

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Apologies for the ongoing delay getting the full game finished. I've been very busy with other commitments recently.Here's a couple more levels for you to try out in the meantime. They're not 100% finished – I'm going to improve graphics and possibly add the odd missile launcher into the mix – but they're playable.Playable Demo 4Playable Demo 5

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Running Flashteroids full screen, on a widescreen TV. Nice...

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Here's a third playable demo.For keyboard controls see this post.

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Here's a second playable demo.For keys see the previous post.

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OK, all but one of the levels are now ready to go apart from a bit of fine tuning here and there. However there are still a few fixes to be made to the menu screens and the sound effects. Plus I've not worked out what order the levels go in yet.So... I've made a demo version of the game that allows you to test a single level at a time. And here's one for you to try out. It's fixed to the level

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In this review I've discovered from last July Screenhead suggests that the Flashteroids ship is powered by gas of the most biological kind. I assure you, this is untrue. There's nothing pungent about the pentaquark osmosis drive. In fact it would burn your nose right off if you were within a few hundred clicks, so you wouldn't be able to smell it anyway.

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...And here's another level. This one's pretty simple, there's just lots of bullets to deal with. Tip: Don't hang around in the middle too long.

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You're really going to need those shields on this level because there are a lot of guns going off in that wrap-around shaft down the middle. It's fairly taxing: at the moment I can complete it in around 55 seconds.Next I'm going to make a couple of easy levels (one of the biggest complaints about the old game is that it's too difficult), retire one of the old ones and that will leave us with the

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Well I've just spent a few hours testing this one out and it's one of the most fun yet. It can be completed in around 35 seconds once you get all your turns worked out – assuming you manage to avoid all the missiles, that is. There's a bank of three missile launchers that fire at different intervals. So sometimes you have to deal with three at once.I've also improved the appearance of the missile

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I'm not 100% sure about this level yet. I've been playing it for the last hour and am wondering if it's a bit too fiddly, so I might change or replace it before release.If there was an easy way to post single levels for public testing up on this blog I would. Unfortunately the original Flashteroids is just one big monolithic file, not dynamic at all. LC, of course, will be completely the opposite.

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I made this level the other night which leaves just four more to go until the game can go live.If you look closely at the screengrabs you'll notice that I've also redesigned the game status bar in the top right corner. The new circular icon at the end shows which game mode you're in (Full Game or Time Trial) and the three bars curved around the icon show how many shields you have left.

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