SNAFU Tower Defense has been released. SNAFU Tower Defense is a mazing tower defense game that features 10 missions, each with unique layouts and scenery.

SNAFU TD introduces non-attacking barricades; previous tower defense games required that mazes be built out of the lowest cost towers. All enemy units in SNAFU TD have a defense value, and all towers have an armor penetration value. The balancing of defense and armor penetration makes certain towers more suited to destroying certain enemy units. Players may also change the targeting AI for each individual tower for specific situations.

For each mission in SNAFU TD, the player may earn up to 3 achievements with 3 ranks (gold, silver and bronze). Achievements are awarded for the number of enemy units destroyed, health remaining, and the speed at which the mission is completed.

Click here to play SNAFU Tower Defense.

An updated version of Tetrical has been released.

1. Integrated MochiAds new Leaderboards feature.

Click here to play Tetrical.

An updated version of Cubical has been released.

1. Integrated MochiAds new Leaderboards feature.

Click here to play Cubical.

When I named the game Tetrical, I didn’t know that it was actually a real word. I was simply mashing together “Tetra”, a prefix meaning four, with the name of my other game, “Cubical“. While searching for sites that have linked to my game, I came across the existing definition of the word Tetrical:

Tetrical: Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.

From the comments I see from most people that play the game, I feel like they might agree with that definition more.

Kongregate as finally released an AS3 version of their API. There are two methods to integrate the API with your game. The first method is to download a component and compile it into your game. The second method is to load the API at runtime.

As easy as it is to integrate with the Kongregate API through their component, I prefer to do as much as I can through ActionScript without using the Flash IDE. Also, if you are a game developer that posts your game to multiple portals with their own APIs, you may want to only include the API for each domain as needed.

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I ended up having enough time last night to integrate the Kongregate High Score API in to Cubical and Tetrical last night. I uploaded Tetrical to Kongregate this morning. Play Tetrical on Kongregate.

An updated version of Cubical has been released.

1. Integrated Kongregate’s High Score API.

Click here to play Cubical.

An updated version of Tetrical has been released.

1. Integrated Kongregate’s High Score API.

Click here to play Tetrical.

Kongregate has finally released the much anticipated Kongregate API for AS3. I’m going to try and get it integrated into Cubical and Tetrical this weekend. After I get it integrated into Tetrical, I’ll be uploading that game to Kongregate as well.

The first version of Tetrical has been released. Tetrical runs on the same engine as Cubical, but is a more challenging game. Instead of regular shaped boxes of polycubes, Tetrical has polycubes composed of all combinations of four cubes in three dimensions. This makes Tetrical a direct analog to Tetris in three dimensions.

Click here to play Tetrical.