So, on one sunny April day…

I was sitting in front of my computer doing “work” (what i mean by work is playing tons of games…for research purposes of course!)…when I suddenly receive an email from an advisor for the Casual Games Association!…*dun dun dun* (sound effects for dramatization)…the email can be summarized as: “Hey, cool Infectonator game! I want you to speak at Casual Connect Seattle 2010, interested?”. And my reply can be summerized as: “Hell yeah! wohooo!”.

3 months later, I’ve got my visa and my passport…and “all my bags are packed, ready to go! b’cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again…” (actually i’ll be back on the 29th, that was a spur of the moment kinda thing). Anyway, since this will be my first journey to America representing Toge Productions and my first time speaking in front of international game developers…a celebratory ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT-YAKINIKU-AND-SUKIYAKI-DINNER seems appropriate

OMG, I Can’t Believe It!

• Opened NG
• Clicked the Flash Portal to  find the game, which is on the 6th place of the week
• Checked the best-of-all-time list
• Read Infectonator:WD on the 2nd place
• Surprised and paralyzed for 30 seconds
• Print Screen
• Crop
• Brag it on my site

Wow, I mean.. (hopefully it doesn’t sound too cocky) we just started in this game-making industry, and suddenly one of our game is on the top of the best-of-all-time list (well, not really on the top, but almost) in NG. NG is big, I mean a very BIIIG site, which consist of thousands of flash games and also movies, and many of them are really-really great, but somehow we can outranked them… I just feel really proud with this game
Hopefully it stays there for a very looong timee… well if not, I have the screenshot of it anyway :p

• Then you read it

Infect people, turn them into zombies, and Dominate the World!

The long awaited ‘World Domination Edition’!!

The previous 60 sec and Xmas versions of Infectonator have been a huge hit online. This new game adds a lot of depth, giving you the control to infect entire continents one by one.

Best of all, it still has the same addictive chain reaction gameplay!

Controls

* Mouse

Awards

* Daily 2nd Place – Newgrounds.com

Yes, Infectonator : World Dominator is finally here!

No more waiting, Play it now!

I know, I promised to release the game on January…but we don’t want to release a half-assed game, so we decided to balance and test the game over and over, fix any bugs that pops up along the way, and add more features. I hope we didn’t let you down. I would like to thank you all for supporting us and for patiently waiting.

What’s on?? What’s next??

Hey guys, it’s been a while we haven’t told you what’s been up in our works. We are on our final stages right now, the final stages would be rebalancing, sound mixing, and beta testing. Infectonator: World Dominator is looking pretty good (er..or maybe not that good since problems always come anyway. Well, we’ll see…hehe). Several new features have been added up and we hope you will enjoy the most of the coolness in it haha…Even we are now composing our own musics and sound effects, which are, actually pretty nice to listen up(especially for me, the sound engineer, lol). Last but not least, we would like to thank all of you who have been waiting for the game to come up. =)

Even though Infectonator has not been released yet, we’re full of new game ideas. They just pop up out of nowhere and we just don’t know which one would be the best to be our next project arrghhh..! And I feel so excited to get it all done! Moreover, it’s also great to have (again) a new member of Toge, our 2D/3D art designer, codename: Bajai. Welcome!

Holiday is over…so…here’s an update on World Dominator

2009 was a great year for us, we had loads of fun making games. My hopes in 2010 would be, continue to make games that are fun and enjoyable, improve the quality of our games, surprise you with our latest inventions, and to bring more dough to our pockets (har har har) ;p

Now that holiday has ended the team has started working on the World Domination again…though it took a while to warm up our working brains (too much vacation can make people dumb…seriously!)

So here are some screenshots of the Level selector for the World Domination Edition…if you think it looks crappy, I’m open for suggestions…but keep in mind that these are still work in progress, so they have the tendency to look crappy.
I have also jolted down your suggestions into a looong list…i can see a lot of great ideas, hopefully we can implement them.

On other things, I would like to introduce our new team member, AJ (pronounced : Ae-Jay)! So you might want to give him a warm welcome…or something.

PS: AJ is a giant! he eats little babies for breakfast and whiny little brats for lunch

Yes, we have something for you! Unfortunately it’s not World Domination Edition…sorry ;p

We made Infectonator : Christmas Edition as a Holiday present for you! I hope you guys will enjoy playing it as much as the original!

I’d also like to thank you for the suggestions regarding the World Domination Edition, we appreciate it very much! Hopefully the game can be completed in early January 2010. Once again, Thank you and have a great holiday season!

Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Infect people, turn Santa into a zombie, and ruin Christmas before it begins

Well, you tried to destroy the world in just 60 seconds…now it’s time to ruin the holiday season! Infect people and turn them into zombies in this simple and fun game, compare your high-score with your friends and see who is the best INFECTONATOR!

Here’s our Christmas present for you! Have a great Holiday season folks!

Controls

* Mouse

Awards

* Daily 2nd Place – Newgrounds.com
* Weekly 2nd Place – Newgrounds.com

Infectonator got a third place on NG. Well, I should be pretty happy with it, but when I think about it again, the game’s rating was 4.20 when the judgment calls, it is even higher than today’s best, and right now its rating has reached 4.40, it is even higher than any of the weekly top five games. We just picked the wrong day to submit our game to NG.  It happened to us once before, we submitted Days2Die:TOS to Kong, and we got unexpected low rating, it was about 3.15 if I’m not mistaken, not even featured on Kong’s front page (Kris cried when it happenned :p just kidding), but as the days passed by the rating was increasing slowly but sure, now it has reached 3.63, I just believed if we have made it to Kong’s front page, we will get a lot more players to play it, and the game’s rating gonna boost up. Well in conclusion, we are just daaamnn good at choosing the wrong day to submit a game…………. Peace

After we released Infectonator! I realized something…We (and by we, I mean…me) have an excessive obsession with zombies! The last three games that we’ve designed and made has got something to do with zombies, either killing zombies in a side-scrolling lawn mower-esque maneuver or turning people to zombies in a retro style simulator…and I don’t think that this obsession is going away anytime soon. However I’d like to try making other kinds of games that doesn’t involve zombies in any way…hopefully soon

On other things, we are going to finish makin Infectonator! : World Domination Edition soon. But before we do, I’d like to know what do you like to see implemented in this game. Please let me know by leaving a comment below!