NEON Ramblings

No, I'm not rambling, Braids NEON is. Rambling across the web.

I was just checking my MochiBot dashboard to see how many views my Flash games have been getting lately, and I was surprised to see thirteen sites now hosting the game! But I've only submitted it to three... How did that happen?

Apparently, whenever you submit a half-decent game to Newgrounds, it immediately gets picked up (stolen) by a bunch of smaller game sites. That's not necessarily a bad thing - you just want to be prepared to take advantage of that sudden surge of attention. I have my name in the game, but not much else. Not that I'm looking for much else at this point.

I'd never even heard of any of these sites, but they've all managed to find my game.

• Andkon Arcade
• Game Fudge
• Gameshot
• Games Hero
• Games For Work
• Gamki
• Zupagames
• eGameStorm

The remaining hosts were those sites that let you get past content filters.

It's interesting to see the new descriptions and icons people have created for Braids NEON. Andkon Arcade, by far the most popular host for the game with over thirteen thousand views in four days, has come up with its own instructions, much more concise than mine:

"Click and hold the mouse to start. Then, use the mouse to smash into your opponent."

I thought it was kind of funny. Certainly it leaves out a lot of information, like the existence of keyboard controls, but it does get the point across. And I suppose that most people do end up playing it as a "smash into your opponent" sort of game anyway, though that's not how I would describe it.

Then there's another description on a few other sites:

"The game 'Braids Neon' is a stylish kind of rag doll fighting game. You can use your keyboard, your mouse or both together to let the pupas fight it out!"

I don't know what the word "pupas" means in this context. :p But I'm not complaining. Stylish is good.

The best place to play the game is still on Kongregate, probably, since it has high scores and there's the chance I could get some money if enough people play it there. And the version on deviantART is where I'm likely to experiment with new updates, in case you're interested in that.

Update:
It looks like more sites have found Braids NEON since the last time I checked. Like this one.