Ever since the late 90’s, Flash games have been pivotal to providing us with web-based entertainment and helping us escape from intolerable boredom. These Flash games make the Internet great, but with the new advancements in next-gen technology we ponder; wouldn’t it be awesome if we could play these games on our TV? Well Aaron Worrall, David Stubbs and John Eysman thought the exact same thing. They took it among themselves to create a website where you could play flash games designed for the Wii!

Wiicade is a Flash arcade website. It focuses on Flash games that exclusively use the mouse to play the game, allowing wii owners to play (via the integrated Opera browser) using their wiimote! The great thing about this website is the way it’s bridging the gap between console gaming and casual web-gaming, creating a whole new format that’s enjoyable and challenging to all.

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I want to thank Dan McNeely for providing the following response to our article, ‘The Life and Death of LordBling….‘.

While I continue to have my own reservations and opinions about what happened last night, I do respect the things Dan has done and think his comments not only deserve to be published, but should get their own post so they aren’t lost in the clutter.

And so…

Everyone seems to have an opinion about what happened. The truth of the matter was ‘LordBling’ was created to support Artist, Writers and Newgrounds.The idea was to create a site that added a fresh face to parody and animation. (Hence the ‘King of Parody’ slogan) I wanted to encourage writers and animators to come up with their own ‘Bling’ creation, (See ‘Lord of the Bling’ in the Newgrounds portal) This ‘Bling’ concept could be applied to anything and everying. (Saving Private Bling, Bling Wars, B is for Bling-detta, etc) I was then going to offer animators money to create these series for the site.

Any animation created for the site would be submitted to Newgrounds as the first place to show what the animator had created. In return, I would pay them for the work and help distribute their work around the web. I saw it as a ‘win-win’ situation.

When designing the site, I had a graphic artist custom design everything so that no one would say I copied anything. The ‘Lord Bling’ character was suppose to have a ‘young, kingly’ look to him, and for reference I provided my graphic artist a link to the guy from the Fall Out series. Not Pico Related @ All.

The template was choosen from ‘TemplateMonster.com‘ and the layout was based around sites like CrazyMonkeyGames, Newgrounds, FlashPortal, Hallpass, ArmorGames, etc. It was a combination of things I liked from all of these properties. (Again it was never intended to emulate, steal, or undermine what Newgrounds has done or created)

After going into the beta test period, it was quickly noted by a few as a rip off of Newgrounds, which was quite upsetting to me because of the level of respect I have for Tom Fulp and the support he has given to me over the years. I then decided to pull down the site, and have the graphic artist remove the logos since people thought it was copy right infringement.

The current content on the site was from places that distribute their work freely (CrazyMonkeygames, ArmorGames, etc) and the few animations listed on the site were from talented artist that I had already worked with, and I had them listed as the author in the ‘Comments’ section of the site.

In no way was it meant to emulate Newgrounds. It’s purpose was to support animators and writers and help them get paid for the hard work that they submit freely everyday to Newgrounds.

I’m still hoping for an explaination as to why so much effort went into hiding the existence of the site, but that’s another story for another day…