My new Flash game Ghosts of Hell is now complete after 4 months of work (minus a few weeks in the middle while I finished uni work). The game is now being beta tested and will be released after sponsorship is sorted out, I'm hoping that it'll be before the end of the month but these things tend to get dragged out.

As a small update to this news feed, I've updated the Category system to a more flexible Tags feature. The most notable difference is that news posts can have multiple tags (e.g. a news post about a game will generally have a Flash tag as well as one for that individual game series such as Osiris).

With uni over for the year and more time on my hands I have lots of big updates expected within the next few weeks. I'll be posting news on Chrome Play, Ghosts of Hell and new projects very soon.

This game seems to be taking forever, but now I've completed the enemy graphics it's starting to feel somewhere close to completion. The screen below if effectively what the final game will look like, all I have to do now is the sound.

Lag has been a major problem with this game, despite it being the tightest coding I've done (AS3 with full use of classes). Maybe it's just my slow laptop.

Posting a small update on my upcoming Flash game Ghosts of Hell as I haven't said much about it for a while. The engine is 90% complete now and it's come together as well as I could have hoped - as well as a complex Everyday Shooter style chaining system, there's a unique level up system that scales everything out as you play. For example, the large enemies you face at first will be tiny dots later on, whereas new stronger enemies will be bigger. It's not quite to the scale of Spore but it's something pretty unique in a Flash game and I'll be excited to see what people make of it.

Haven't begun on the enemy drawings yet so most of what you see in the attached screenshot is stand-in graphics, but it should give you an idea of the gameplay, especially if you've played Everyday Shooter or similar games. I haven't even begun on the sound yet, and as a music based game that's a huge element still missing, but I'm still hoping to get this done by the end of the month and looking at a July release.

I've added a new button on the left to draw some attention to the Chrome Shark Media Facebook Page. By becoming a fan of this you'll be able to keep up with major updates such as new Flash games through your Facebook account.