My Christmas Competitors

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, [...]

Why I made a match-3 clone

Indie game developers seem to be divided into two camps: cloners and non-cloners.  The cloners are doing it for the money and the non-cloners are doing it for “art”.  I fall into the cloner category at the moment, but there is a reason for this – read on.
In December 2004 I started making a kung [...]

3 Months Later …

Well it’s exactly 3 months since my first blog post, so I didn’t exactly get off to a flying start.  However, many things have happened since then…
Easter Bonus
Easter Bonus carried on selling in April but then slowed right down (as is to be expected really).  In the end it did quite well; not as well [...]

My first blog post.

Well, hello, and welcome to my first blog post.  Hopefully the first of many.
This blog will be about my games on http://greyaliengames.com. I’ll also talk about game development, games that I’ve been playing, and other random stuff too.
I hope you enjoy it!