MochiBot Blog

Paul Robertson just released Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, an amazing animation with the style of an action packed side scrollling platform game. The twelve minute animation feels like a game that you can actually play, but unfortunately you have to just sit there with thumbs twitching. 73Mb file.

We just pushed a minor build today to make a few tweaks to the system. Some of the interface changes you’ll notice are as follow:

• Uniques are back in the SWF Detail page. They’re in both the yellow Overview section and the SWF Detail graph (see below). The number of uniques in the graph will be displayed in blue and the number of views in red.
  
• A lot of people asked us to check the MochiBot Ranking by default so we did it.

During my time at GDC last month I got a chance to play Guitar Hero at one of the exhibitor booths. Every day since then I struggled with myself not to go out and buy the game. Unfortunately I broke down a couple weeks ago and bought the damn thing. Needless to say I’m now addicted to the game and can’t wait to get home every day to rock the F*#! out.

Then today I was looking for some entertainment during lunch and stumbled upon a little treat of a site called Guitar Shred Show. It’s a superbly built Flash site that pits you as Mr. Fastfinger, the guitar Zen master. The site surprisingly fills the internal rocker in me with just a little bit of keyboard mashing. Now when I’m away from my plastic axe I can just rock out with Mr. Flashfinger.

We’ve just pushed a new build over the weekend that adds a couple new features. One is the addition of SWF categories. This will help determine if the Flash movie you’re tracking is a game, animation, video, etc. We created these categories because the second feature we added was SWF Rankings and we needed to categorize the SWFs to properly rank them against each other. Having your SWF ranked is optional because the rank of your SWF will be available for the public to see in a weekly listing of top Flash movies. We won’t be releasing the listing of top Flash movies for a while because it’s going to take some time for people to get their SWFs properly categorized.

One of the reasons why we created the rankings is to help give developers a better idea of how their Flash movies perform in comparison to others around the web. Another reason is also to help our developers get some more recognition by driving traffic to their sites. Along with each ranked SWF will be a field for you to put the link where you want to send people to view your Flash movie. Our job is to make the most of the developers we work with so this is just another way we’re trying to do that.

Both of these new features can be found when you create a new MochiBot or when you edit one that you already created. The edit button for your MochiBot is now more conveniently placed on the SWF Detail page next to the title of your SWF.

In addition to the new features we also made a fix to the Dashboard graphing feature so now the checkboxes properly update the graph.

The stats will be at 0 for yesterday while we work on some bugs that were caused by daylight savings time.

**UPDATE (Apr 06, 2006 @ 5:04pm PST) : Stats are back on again.