Goofball Games isn’t just about the game play, oh no siree. We have a lot of time building games, but we’ve also spent a great deal of time building back-ends. Goofball has also been creating comprehensive web-server based application services for online games since 2006.

Online games can be so much more than just fancy graphics – How about player profiles, score submit, leader boards, badges, achievements, point accumulation, multi-player services and much more. Games can be so much more for users when the game experience stop being stateless and starts engaging the user to play more. Very few game development companies have the exposure to creating this experience – Goofball has this experience and can help you today!

The 2008 election was historic on many levels and the candidates had difficult issues to discuss: with the most important being National Security. Play Indecision 2008: Pandermonium and play as one of the candidates in this unforgetabble race! As one of the candidates, go across the country and convince voters you have what it takes to lead this great nation. As a candidate, a player travels to each state to convince the public your worthiness by eliminating  potential issue tiles by matching like tiles together. Each tile represents a security concern for the state so you need to be quick on your feet or be prepared to be panned by the public! From mullets in Kentucky to certain “actors that jump on couches” in California, each state has unique and hilarious concerns. Keep track of your scores through the leaderboard and see if you best to lead in Indecions 2008: Pandermonium!

If you’re like us, you have an unusual fascination with tower defense games – I say unusual because the design of a tower defense game is so simple that I often times wonder why we like them so much. Therefore, I present to you my 10 part series in creating a tower defense game (in AS2). If you have any concerns or questions please send us your feedback through the Contact Us page!

I break the tutorial into 10 parts: Waypoints and Enemies, Placing Towers, Rotation and Realism, Starting the Tower Attack, Adding Waves of Enemies, Tower Powers, Gold and Upgrades, Poison Towers, and the Final Product. There’s code available for download on every part, so click through to begin exploring the tutorials and start your own Tower Defense game!

We are currently up to Part 10 – Let me know what you think by posting a comment or spreading the word about the site [...]