The Battle Begins is one of the newest competitive gaming websites out there. Battle Points are completely free and you earn them from being active on the site. You can post in the forums, log in once a day to get a small BP reward, or even refer your friends to the site and be rewarded for those that stay active after a period. They also are hosting tournaments for their users. One such tourney is the Connect 4 tourney which we will be holding on the 21st of February 2009 at 3PM EST and will go on until the last match has been played of course. They will use our LorenzGames Connect4, COOL! All of the tourney's have a prize of some sort ranging from Battle Points to cash. The tourney is accepting a maximum of thirty-two people so hurry and register while there is still time. In the Connect 4 tourney prizes go as follows: first place gets 1000 BP, second gets 500 BP, and third gets 250 BP. Not bad for playing a simple game, eh?

These last 3 weeks have been very successful for me, I just won 3 contests with 2 of my games on Nonoba. The first one was Connect4 Multiplayer, the classic Connect4 game with something more, the possibility of playing together with people from all over the world. It won the weekly contest of $500 and the Monthly Contest of $2.500, generating 160.000 users in 2 weeks. The game was made in about 2 hours, which means I worked for 1.500/hour, pretty good no? The other game is Bombators Multiplayer, a remake of Atomic Bomberman in Multiplayer with the chance to play with 4 players in real-time. It got the front page of the most important game websites as Newgrounds and Minijuegos This is a video of the game. This game won the weekly competition of $500 and its on the first place for the monthly competition of July. But the amazing thing is that in the first 3 days it has generated 70.000 hits and 7.000 new subscribers thanks to the game. This game was made in about a week. The weirdest thing is that any company contacted me yet to create games for them… I think they haven’t seen it yet… However, while trying to distribute my games, I found many problems. People from other portals didn’t like to have the Nonoba logo in the game, and so they decided to not publish the game on their websites, probably they were scared Nonoba was going to steal them users? LoL Anyway, if you want to try to make a Multiplayer thing, the first important thing is to know AS3 very good. Then go on Nonoba Developers and download the Multiplayer SDK. I suggest you to start with something very simple, like a card games or a board games. Let me know if it turns in something good