News Archive
18.01.09 BBC Blast Interview with Luke Whittaker
Luke was interviewed a while ago for BBC Blast about how to get into online games, check out the bitesize pieces here.
Online games - how to start making one : Part 1 - What's the story?
Online games - how to start making one : Part 2 - What's it worth?
Online games - how to start making one : Part 3 - Tips and tricks
Online games - how to start making one : Part 4 - What next?
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12.01.09 A update from State of Play
It's been on our mind to update the site for quite a while, so here is a brief breakdown of what we have been doing since the last update.
• Creating a new Sports game, watch this space for release.
• A fun Christmas game for the kids, made for Spil Games.
• Another trip to Sierra Leone for a new animation which you could see a snapshot of below.
We will do a bigger update shortly where we will have more to show
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20.10.09 Just released NEW GAME!: Aubital
We are chuffed to bits with our new game Aubital - A lonely robot has been freed from slavery by a mysterious friend. Explore the dark to escape and discover what terrible deeds his captors have perpetrated.
It's also in Jay is Games Casual Gamplay competition, so enjoy the game and please vote for us here
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09.10.09 Just released NEW GAME!: Real Solitaire
We are pleased to present our new game, Real Solitaire, which you can play here now.
Real Solitaire is the most realistic Solitaire game on the web! Intensely addictive, and with realistic animation, lighting effects and sound, plus a choice of 3 card designs and 3 different playing surfaces, you'll just want to keep playing!
If you want to play more Doctor Puzzle games click here
29.09.09 NEW GAME! Headspin: Card Quest
We have an exciting new game launched today 'Headspin: Card Quest'
"The King and Queen have been locked in the castle by the evil Prince! A fiendish puzzler where you must beat all your opponents at cards to reach the castle and save them"
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18.09.09 Making of Headspin: Space Race
We have set up a new blog and our first article is "The Making of Headspin: Space Race". Check out Luke's article here, and see behind the scenes of making the retro-tastic fun game.
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08.09.09 NEW GAME! Headspin: Space Race and Web Designer Magazine
We are very proud of our new game Headspin Space Race, take a look at the Spacey goodness here http://www.stateofplaygames.com/headspin_spacerace/
"Open an illustrated popup book and flip items on the page to make sure each is mirrored. Complete each page to follow the exciting story of our brave Space Adventurers!"
We would love to hear your feedback on the new game, please get in touch
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Also this month we had a feature in Web Designer Magazine, Top 50 Flash Pro Tips, take a look at Luke's tip here.
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24.08.09 Headspin:Storybook shortlisted for another award!
Our game 'Storybook' has been shortlisted for this year's E4 Game Awards 2009 in the Brain Strainers category. http://www.e4.com/Games/doitandwin/WiAPqp6JiO4ykqmzqy1Sg/vote.e4
The winner will be decided by a public vote so be sure to spread the word and vote for us now. The closing date for public votes is the 21st Sept 2009.
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17.08.09 NEW GAME! Space Race is a-coming in September ...
Here's a look at our latest game, based around a papery-retro-comic-popup book. Open the book and solve the puzzles to help guide the intrepid space explorers! Here's the homepage:
And here's how the game's looking:
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21.07.09 Awards section added to the website
Check out our glitzy digital mantlepiece!
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14.07.09 The Ashes 2009 Cricket is nearly here
We've made some changes to our old favourite cricket game, in time for this year's Ashes series. So, even if the real England take two days to bat out a draw, you can spend ten minutes walloping the Aussies, as it should be. The game will be out soon, watch this space.
Please get in touch if you are interested in finding out more and/or licensing this game
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30.06.09 Secret Blisters Exhibition 2009
Secret Blisters Exhibition 2009 One of our pieces of work was shown in the Secret Blisters exhibition in Dalston this weekend. The show was really entertaining, loads of graphic screenprints from all over the world. Our piece, pictured below with Luke, and which was in an edition of 35, sold out by the end of the weekend. A nice bonus to a fine event!
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23.06.09 One World Media Awards
We were at the One World Media awards last night, nominated for our animation work in Sierra Leone on HIV awareness. And we were honoured to see the standard of the other nominees, including films like Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir. Joe and Mark (either side of our display) are musicians who worked on an album of music out there, and Luke, on the right, worked on the animations.
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15.06.09 Headspin Storybook is nominated for Addicting Games Showdown, Vote now!
We are pleased to announce that Headspin Storybook has been nominated for Addicting Games Showdown in the "Best Game from Planet Random" category! They will be counting the votes between now and 27th June and the winner will be announced on Nickelodeon 8pm June 27th 2009. So please vote today and everyday until the 27th.
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09.06.09 More Games, more animations, and one big trip to Africa
We haven't done an update for a while, so here goes. We have:
- Created a version of our Free Play Baseball game for ESPN
- Produced some cool animations for Citroen and Toyota
- Working on a large Facebook game for a big console games company.
- Been in Sierra Leone for most of May and worked with groups of women there, producing an animation which highlights women's rights (or lack of) within the country. This was an amazing and moving trip and we are hoping the animation can help change people's attitudes within Sierra Leone society.
We were also able to teach people basic computer skills aswell as Photoshop and Flash, and we were pleased how quickly people picked them up, especially Flash. We think we have left some budding animators there!
The animation still needs completing, it needs a name for a start! But here are a few screenshots.
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20.04.09 State of Play now on Twitter and Facebook
Keep up to date with everything that is going on in the world of State of Play through:
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17.04.09 Headspin Storybook wins Mochi ads Flash Game Friday!
Headspin Storybook is going from strength to strength and we were really pleased to hear that we won the Mochi ads Flash Game Friday Competition. Thank-you! and thanks for the $100 prize money too!
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08.04.09 NEW GAME Headspin Storybook
At last it is here....
Take a walk through a magical pop-up storybook, testing your visual awareness skills against the clock. This beautifully illustrated game will keep you addicted for hours!
When opened, the book will pop up items on the left and right hand pages. The aim of the game is to make the items on the right hand page mirror the items on the left. Check it out here
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01/04/09 : RiK came 4th in the 1Click2Fame awards
After a mammouth response from all the RiK fans, RiK came fourth in the 1Click2Fame awards, and he was in first position for the majority of the competition. Well Done to everyone who voted.