MochiBot Blog

It’s been a while since we’ve updated, but we are still here hard at work at Mochi HQ. We are excited to announce today that MochIBot officially supports ActionScript 3 (AS3) files. Hooray!

You can now add your AS3 SWFs to MochiBot simply by creating a new MochiBot and following the short directions to download and include the ActionScript file and code snippet. This has been tested against Flash 9 and 10.

As always, we welcome your feedback so let us know your thoughts.

There are a lot of Flash animators and game developers out there that have had encounters (good and bad) with Ebaum’s World. News broke recently that Eric Bauman, founder of Ebaum’s World, just sold his company for $17.5 million.

That’s great for Eric! However, much of that value was built from the amazing games and animations that you, the community, built. Unfortunately not everyone in the community benefited in the same way. And thus, our company mission is to change that with MochiAds and MochiBot.

You all are doing great things as a community and we hope to continue supporting the growth!

Rock on!

Mochi Media is working furiously on expanding and improving it’s products! To do this we need a kick-ass visual designer to join our ranks. You should be adept at web and interface design, with some XHTML/CSS skills for mega bonus points. You’ll be working with the team to develop new ideas on both MochiBot and MochiAds, as well as working on our new super secret classified projects. (Not to mention you get to work with our Mochi character ^__^)

For detailed information, visit: mochimedia.com/designjob/

It’s been a while since I last posted an update so I just wanted to let everyone know that we’re still here and working as hard as ever. You’ll be glad to know that we’ve been making some updates to the backend of MochiBot. We haven’t pinned down a release date yet, but we’ll definitely make an announcement once it’s all finalized.

We just got Guitar Hero II at the office today so don’t expect any new features on the site for a while. At least not until our fingers heal from all the shredding!

Our friends at Bunchball.com have just recently been funded and are now looking to build a strong team. They have a variety of positions available so if you’re looking to join an exciting new startup in the San Francisco area then I’d encourage you to throw your hat into the pot. Click here for the Bunchball job listings

I haven’t had the time to dig into the new iPod game format, but it sure didn’t take long for other people to. Ben Sinclair has an entertaining writeup on his quest to break down the new iPod game format.

Our good friends at Jay is Games are holding a game design competition that’s open to everyone. The challenge is simple: just build one mind boggling puzzle in Flash similar to the ones in Click Drag Type. Execution may be a bit harder, but it could be well worth your while since prizes include a copy of Flash 8 Professional, a black Nintendo DS Lite, and more prizes to come. Try your puzzle master skills out and toss your hat in the ring. Contest details

A lot of optimizations to the system have been made in the past two days. We’re not 100% complete with the fixes, but we’re getting there. Today you’ll see that some of your stats are back in action. The only thing that you’ll notice missing are yesterday’s stats. Don’t worry though because we’re still working on bringing them back.

The Traffic Report should give you a glimpse of what your traffic was like in the past few days. If you notice any abnormalities while using the system, then please let us know of them as we’ve been going through a lot of changes in the past few days and some bugs may have slipped through the cracks. You can send any bugs that you find to support@mochibot.com.

Happy Valentine’s Day! MochiBot ♥ you

We’ve been pretty swamped recently with improving site performance so Ryan had some fun with the blog and created a new look. He also added a new section in the right sidebar called “Enjoying” for us to highlight some of the cool things that keep us entertained through the long days.

We hope that you like the new blog design!