Hi everyone, I’m *extremely* proud to present my latest game:

Fairway Solitaire!

It’s a golf-themed solitaire game. Warning: Highly addictive!

I was contracted by Big Fish Games to make a downloadable version of their most popular online game community game of 2006. I worked very closely with a BFG game designer and an American artist - we made a great team and it was a lot of fun (and hard work)! It has taken 8.5 months to complete. That might seem a long time for a solitaire game, but check it out and you’ll see why it took so long. The game has tons of features such as an avatar, storyline, shop, statistics, trophies, golf announcer + more … and it’s been SUPER polished.

I’m really proud of this game, it’s my best one to date and has been made with my BlitzMax Game Framework which many people have purchased to speed up the development of their own games.

I hope that you enjoy it

Here’s some screenshots:

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But don’t just look at them, please download the game and check it out + tell your friends and family! Thanks

I had to renew my www.greyaliengames.com and .co.uk domains today, so that means my site is 2 years old! Yay I originally made it in Nov 2005 so that I had some kind of reference site for when people bought Xmas Bonus from the publisher or portals. In Dec 2006 I revamped the site for the launch of my independently published game Holiday Bonus and because I started selling Xmas and Easter bonus myself, rather than via a publisher.

I’ve added quite a few Blitz games and also some Reflexive affiliate titles, but it’s quite a few months out of date now due to me working frantically on my current game.

The next phases is to move away from manually created pages (how lame) and have auto-generate pages via PHP and MYSQL. Then I’ll have a special Blitz Games page and will be adding lots more! I’ll probably do this in December, and announce it then. Watch this space…

Hiya,

It seems that the fighting is fierce on the frontline of Christmas/Holiday-themed match-3s!

Check these out:

www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/jewelmatchwinterwo/index.html

www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/holidaygift/index.html

and compare to mine:

www.greyaliengames.com/holidaybonus.php

Winter Wonderland uses outdoor snowy scenes that seem to involve houses - there’s only 4 backgrounds though. It has a nice snowing effect going on and lovely classical guitar music.  The game has a hammer with 3 levels of power up, snowballs (animated like mine) and a bomb.  It has weird horrible looking graphics for the chains on the locked pieces.  Also you have to remove ice tiles like mine, and it even has double thickness tiles (with snow on), like mine!  Pretty similar in some details, but overall it has a different vibe.

Holiday Gift has indoor Christmas decorations for backgrounds, a gingerbread man that looks like a voodoo doll, and some very dodgy music in my opinion.  You have to remove gold tiles.  This game is hardly any different from previous incarnations.  However it was released before mine, so I hope that people didn’t get their “fill” of Christmas games before mine came out!

Of the two I’d say Winter Wonderland is better by quite a bit.

Last Christmas the makers of Holiday Gift made Best Gift which was pretty much the only other match-3 Christmas game I was competing against, if I recall correctly. There also weren’t that many other Holiday games but there’s quite a few this year all competing for the same customers.  We’ll have to see how well my game get’s on in comparison.  Also on Big Fish Games and Reflexive I actually have both Xmas AND Holiday Bonus out at the same time, which gives me a bit more coverage.  Hopefully fans of one will consider the other.