Still here!

You will be forgiven for thinking Paul and myself had dropped off the face of the earth, given the lack of posts on the blog and the shortage of major upgrades to the site, but we have been working, honest!

After returning from San Fransisco we have been very busy planning out what we intend to do this year on the Casual Collective. We have also just moved into a nice new office, hired ourselves a full time PHP programmer, almost completed 2 Facebook applications and are currently producing an advergame for an upcoming film, so it has been quite a busy couple of months.

Happy Birthday Desktop Tower Defense!

DTD is one year old this week! In this post I talk about how the game came to be, how it grew, how many plays it has and how much money it has earned…

Spread those creative wings and fly.

So far all my posts have been about the Collective and our games, but every now and then something pretty amazing happens that just deserves a good blogging, and this is one of those moments.

10 days in the wild

Howdy all! It has been just over 10 days since we unleashed Flash Element TD 2 (FETD2) on the world and as promised I have some stats for you figure loving people out there. Also in this post I will talk about some of the mistakes we made with the launch, what we did to fix them and some of the things I think we got right.

FETD2 is live, Info on upcoming games & San Fransisco here we come!

Flash Element TD 2 was launched on the 14th (a week ago) and has significantly increased the activity on the Collective, it is already coming up on its first million plays! It was well received in a Jay is Games review and has gone down a storm in Norway! All those long nights I guess. Hats off to Dave for creating another quality TD. Click here to play FETD2

Now that FETD2 is live we have been planning out our game output for the next few months and we have some exciting games lined up. Well we would say that wouldn’t we :o)

Flash Element TD, one year on.

A big happy birthday to Flash Element TD, my first Flash based Tower Defense game and probably one of the most popular flash games of 2007 is now 1 year old today! Here is a look at the making of the game as well as how it managed to hit 70 million loads in 2007!

IT’S aLIVE!

That’s right folks… It was 145 days ago we wrote our fist ever line of code and over 2,500 man hours of blood, sweat and temper tantrums later… The Collective is LIVE! The site is now free for all to use and register! So head on over to The Casual Collective and get your game on! (after you have read the rest of this blog post of course)

Casual gaming meats social networking, and gets jiggy with it!
We are not just another flash game portal that just lists games that it finds on the web.

Ooooh look! A Flash Element TD 2 update!

Howdy all.
Work on Flash Element TD 2 (FETD2) has been going at a pace on the run-up to the Collectives “go-live” date at the end of this month *bites nails* and I have taken some time out to do a quick update and post some screen-shots.

We have set a ‘go-live’ date!

Paul and I have set the end of this month as a target to get the Collective open to the public, as to if we hit it or overshoot is anyones guess ;o) We have a few things to do between now and then, things to look out for over the next few weeks include:

9 days and 6,099 hours later…

That’s right, in the last 9 days the members of the Collective have racked up over 6,000 hours of game play, that’s over 254 days of killing creeps, capturing buggles and sinking ships! This does not include the time spent in the game lobby, the new LIVE chat room and surfing the 879 user created groups we now have!