The Mochis is an annual award show held on the day of FGS that recognizes the year's very best Flash games. There are nine categories for this year's award show. Below you will find three finalists for each category, along with the game creators and links to play the games. The winners will be announced on March 4th in an award ceremony at FGS 2012.
Matt and Tony are game developers and co-founders of Flipline Studios, an independent studio focused on the Flash game market. Perhaps best known for their series of cooking sims beginning with ""Papa's Pizzeria", Matt and Tony grew up playing classic platformer games, which influenced their debut "Papa Louie" title and their new series of "Cactus McCoy" platformers. At Flipline, they strive to bring a high level of quality, style, and polish to all of their games.
Steve and Jeff Fulton, from 8bitrocket.com, are twin brothers and retro devolved champions of the pixelated indie underdog. Born out of a long line of complainers, over reactors and naval gazers, they continue that tradition on their web site with great care and intense fortitude. When they are not busy reading each other's thoughts and/or switching places to fool their loved ones, they write opinionated editorials, games, tutorials, and books about Flash / HTML5 Canvas. Much to the amusement of their friends and relatives, they constantly argue about which Atari product might be the best game ever made. While Jeff still believes it to be Asteroids, Steve knows he is wrong because that would mean Super Breakout is #2, and that just can't be right. However, both agree that if someone, somewhere could somehow make a game that was a cross between Phantasie, Anco Player Manager, Peggle, Dune 2, Burnout:Takedown, Bookworm Adventures , Food Fight, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Pac-Man CE DX, and Castle Wolfenstein 3D they could lay down their arms and surrender to it's glory, because the pinnacle of game design has been achieved.
Mat Annal is the Managing Director and co-founder of Nitrome Ltd, an award winning games studio based in London, UK. Nitrome started in late 2005 with the aim of creating fresh, unique Flash games with production values above what would normally be associated with the format. To date Nitrome have now made over 70 games and counting including such hit titles as the Toxic, Icebreaker, Final Ninja and Skywire series. As well as being available on many of the most popular games sites Nitrome has built it's own site (www.nitrome.com) where the games receive millions of plays each week. Nitrome now hopes to expand their games to other platforms as well as exploring other areas of online gaming.
Colin Cupp is the product marketing and community guy at Mochi Media. He spends much of his time fostering relationships with developers and improving Mochi's tools & services. He also spends a fair amount of time playing games, looking for weekly Flash Game Friday winners. In his spare time he enjoys sci-fi flicks, traveling, and the great outdoors.
Joey Betz is a game developer at Armor Games best known for creating the "Crush The Castle" series. His expertise comes from a degree in game development, which he not afraid to use. Creating games that range from "Sushi Cat" to "Phage Wars", he strives to make games that are both fun and engaging. Working at Armor Games gives him the freedom to express his creativity and challenge himself as a programmer on each project he works on.
Known affectionately as 'the Godfather of Tower Defense', Paul Preece is a founding member of KIXEYE and currently serves as Executive Producer for Desktop Defender and Battle Pirates. The original version of Desktop Defender, Desktop Tower Defense, was released in March 2007 and has been played over 70 million times - representing more than 10 million hours of global playing time and transforming Preece from late-night hobbyist into one of the most well-known indie game developers. Preece holds a Computer Science degree from Kingston University.
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I do not know if the game was created in 2011. Can I still nominate it?Absolutely, please nominate the game. In the process of selecting finalists and winners, we will contact the game creator to verify that they qualify.
Can I nominate Facebook games?Yes, you can nominate any game that is Flash-based, including games on destination sites or social networks like Facebook.
What qualifies as an independent game or commercial game?An independent game is any game created by an organization 3 people or smaller, and not created on commission or for an advertiser. Commercial games are any created by companies greater than 3 people, on commission or for an advertiser.
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