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February 5, 2006

Embed Flash Games in your Blog

Michael Arrington

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I originally wrote about Bunchball during the Web 2.0 conference last fall. They relaunched their product on February 1, 2006

The core technology is the same, but bunchball has changed their interface, focus and messaging. From their profile request:

We’re a place for users to come play multi-player Flash “games” with small groups of friends, or easily take them and put them into their own web pages and blogs, to play with their visitors.

This is the important new thing about Bunchball that we added after the Web 2.0 conference (along with a completely new, 100x better UI) - the ability to take any game and put it into a web page.

Games can be anything from arcade type games to chat, to photo and music sharing.

For developers, we provide quick deployment of existing games (minutes), and an API to our multi-player platform - giving them more opportunities to have their games be viral and the ability to create multiplayer games faster than ever before.

The focus is now on allowing people to easily create flash games, and syndicate them to the edge on blogs and websites. I’ve embedded a version of Asteroids below, which is playable on this site. Games can be multi-player, and chat is integrated. I hope bunchball doesn’t pull an “ajchat” on me and break down.

Bunchball was founded by Rajat Paharia and Sunil Singh and is based in silicon valley.

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  1. C. Flowers

    February 5th, 2006 at 9:46 pm

    That’s awesome!

  2. Michael Arrington

    February 5th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    Yeah, I agree. It hasn’t broken yet, and I’m finding the chat to be the most interesting part of it.

  3. Orli Yakuel

    February 5th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    Ok, that’s cool!

  4. tagami

    February 5th, 2006 at 9:56 pm

    very cool. Nice integrated chat as a bonus!

  5. Edmund Yeo

    February 5th, 2006 at 9:57 pm

    Wow! Amazing stuff!

  6. Michael Arrington

    February 5th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

    Yeah, they’ve really created something amazing. And it hasn’t broken yet. :-)

  7. Ben Askins

    February 5th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

    Very cool. I was able to play the game within the netvibes feed reader.

  8. rajat

    February 5th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

    Thanks for the write-up Michael! A couple of random things I thought I’d mention:

    1. I sure hope it doesn’t break!

    2. SHIFT will get you into Hyperspace in Asteroids, but there’s no telling where you’ll come back.

    3. Emoticons for chat described here in case you want to get creative: http://www.bunchball.com/help/chat.html

    4. I posted what we think are the big ideas behind bunchball here: http://www.bunchball.com/blog/ - check them out and tell us what you think.

    5. Linked off the side of the blog you can also see samples of several games embedded in web pages. For those people who think the chat is the most interesting part, you might find some of the chat oriented games (Talk Amongst Yourselves, Question of the Day, Just Chat) interesting to check out.

    - rajat

  9. Edmund Yeo

    February 5th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

    Man, I’m putting Tetris onto my site.

  10. CrazyBarbour

    February 6th, 2006 at 1:45 am

    Awesome… Gd choice of games… I will give it a whirl on my blog :D

  11. CrazyBarbour

    February 6th, 2006 at 1:45 am

    Awesome… Gd choice of games… I will give it a whirl on my blog

  12. rajat

    February 6th, 2006 at 2:45 am

    Hey - a couple of other things:
    [A] I’d like to amend my previous answer to #1 and say that although I’m not a deeply-religious man, I am fervently praying that our servers hold up. :)
    [B] Because we’re slowly ramping up our service, we are currently limiting our total number of users to 5000. As we work through the scalability issues, we’ll be bringing more servers online and increasing our number of users over the coming weeks. We’ll post the latest info to our blog.
    [C] Since being “TechCrunched” we’ve actually changed our server configuration and modified the clients - so if you’re a return visitor and having problems, try clearing your cache and reloading the page.

    phew, - rajat

  13. Mark Woodman

    February 6th, 2006 at 7:15 am

    Works fine in NewsAlloy too.

  14. Dorrian

    February 6th, 2006 at 7:49 am

    “The focus is now on allowing people to easily create flash games, and syndicate them to the edge on blogs and websites.”

    My recommendation is that they go license a lot of content and focus on the syndication part of the business first. Fast. I think this could be big.

  15. guest

    February 6th, 2006 at 9:19 am

    i will say this to anyone reading techcrunch has its benefits its qiute fun to play astoroids

  16. rajatss

    February 6th, 2006 at 11:42 am

    Hey - thanks to the free load-testing :) we discovered some code in the chat client that was killing performance everywhere. We’ve taken chat offline for now, so that games will continue to work, and we’re working on a fix. And ordering a bigger server.

    - rajat

  17. Jota

    February 6th, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    Perfect!

  18. Jeru545

    February 6th, 2006 at 7:16 pm

    —–
    syndicator

    Of the big ideas, this is the biggest. Every other gaming site makes you go to them. We make it easy to take any game deployed on our platform and put it into your own web page, whether it’s a blog, a page at MySpace or Piczo or Xanga, or a custom website.
    —–

    I think the chat feature is a pretty nice idea but the above is pretty much BS.

    There are already HUNDREDS of arcade game sites offering the feature of embedding games in Myspace etc.

    Just take a look at a random sample of Myspace profiles and you can see this feature has been existence for months.

  19. Arthur Vance

    February 6th, 2006 at 8:49 pm

    I haven’t played Asteroids since it was actually a new game…like 25 years (or more) ago.

    Web 2.0 and Asteriods…interesting world we live in! lol

    AV

  20. Andrei

    February 6th, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    Lol!

    No offence, I think TechCrunch is great. Thanks to this site, I’ve found tools, like coComment and Netvibes, which I use every day. You’re tapping technology at the very root, but this isn’t technology. Who the fuck in the World Wide Web 2.0 want to *embed* a *flash* game into their blog? Those words spell lame to me.

    If I want to play a game, I’ll take the time to run A GAME. If I’m doing somthing productive, like reading your blog, the last thing I’d want is to be distrupted by a game (especially Asteroid.)

    Really, what type of loosers are entertained by lame flash games?

  21. rajat

    February 6th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Jeru545 - You’ve always been able to put Flash games into a page, there’s nothing special about that.

    But they’ve been isolated, stand-alone apps that don’t have any connection to other games or a memory. Michael created a new “instance” of Asteroids that was uniquely his and put it into TechCrunch. The high scores here are different from anyone elses. If he grabbed the code from one of the many sites you’re talking about, he wouldn’t have that.

    He could also put the same instance of Asteroids into CrunchNotes, and then it wouldn’t matter where people play from, they’d still be competing with one another. And they can chat with each other across sites also.

    We use “game” pretty loosely. Check out some of the other apps on the platform. Have you seen a photo slideshow or a music player that actually lets visitors add their own tracks right from the page anywhere else? Games like Tic Tac Toe and Hexxagon where you can actually play against visitors to your page? I think that’s the other key thing that we add - these games and apps are now interactive. It’s not just passive viewing (and maybe commenting) on someone’s page, you’re adding photos, music, messages to the crossfader, competing for high scores, chatting about today’s topic and playing a head-to-head game.

    We think that’s really special. - rajat

  22. rajat

    February 7th, 2006 at 12:08 am

    Actually, I think Duncan at Suttree uses some good terminology. There’s games, which you can get at lots of different sites, and then there’s distributed social games, which you can get at Bunchball.

    And for developers, we provide the distributed social part, so they can concentrate on creating great user experiences. - rajat

  23. rajat

    February 7th, 2006 at 12:10 am

    argh. that’ll teach me to try to do HTML late at night. Didn’t mean all that to be bold.

  24. rajat

    February 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm

    1. New, beefier, database server: CHECK
    2. Leaks and Waves dealt with: CHECK
    3. Chat turned back on: CHECK

    Michael - sorry we broke on you.

    - rajat

  25. Toli Cefail

    February 20th, 2006 at 2:08 pm

    Totally awesome! Genius.

  26. cody

    March 4th, 2006 at 6:29 am

    pretty cool i need more info on how to get games for my web site a little easier then what launch now hhas because im haveing trouble doing it

  27. Gamer

    March 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 am

    this is the coolest, simplest game i ever played!

  28. ryan

    March 26th, 2006 at 5:14 am

    hi my name is ryan this website is prety cool but you need more flash games
    what i recomend is a game called MADNESS COMBAT its the best game ever. thanks for reading and i hope you will visit my web somtime

  29. Randy

    April 8th, 2006 at 11:41 am

    Thanks for articel. It`s not hard at all.

  30. Steve

    May 24th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    u can add any of the games from the http://www.idiotbrain.com flash arcade to your site or blog by just coping the code.

  31. Steve

    May 30th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    THis is a great offering from - bunch ball - very slick. also worth looking at is http://www.blemeshack.com

    blemeshack is a web 2.0 offering with some substantial AJAX use inside the sign-up part of the product (i.e the Shack, and managing the Shack).

    The whole concept of The bleme Shack - is a place to store all of the great clippings of code you find anywhere on the web. To games like this one, to videos (e.g. from You Tube or somewhere like that), or just to personal pics and other uploaded stuff).

    They have a button for the Google toolbar to let you “clip” the code and instantly pop it in your shack from any website.

    Any questions drop me a line,
    Steve

  32. aljon kim

    June 1st, 2006 at 1:10 am

    please!

  33. steve

    June 8th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    any1 know wer i can get the html code to embed madness interactive/combat?plz

  34. steve

    June 8th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    any1 know wer i can get the html code to embed madness interactive/combat?plz

  35. kevin

    June 14th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    hello that game was fun could you add that to my web i have a banner code but no games so could you add lots on my web ? plz

  36. victoria

    October 7th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

    where can i chat with people and play a game at the same time

  37. kelsea

    October 7th, 2006 at 1:19 pm

    is anybody on here that i can chat with

  38. lanrex

    October 14th, 2006 at 10:41 pm

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  39. larry

    October 14th, 2006 at 10:44 pm

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    We are mobile phones wholesalers, we deals on all brands and models of mobile phones such as Nokia, motorola, Samsung and many more at very cheap Prices, we have mobile phones accessories such as battery, charger, keypad, housing, datacable, LCD.
    We supply many other electronic products, such as portable DVD, car DVD, MP3, MP4, LCD TV, plasma TV, CD ROM, DVD writer, windows XP, office 2003 Software, IP phone, USB phone, bluetooth earphone, bluetooth USB dongle, etc. We are using this medium to look for buyers of mobile phones, we are offering Very low discounts with free shipment for mobile phones and laptops, place your order with your full address, zipcode, and phone contact numbers to Enable issue your proformal invoice and process your shipment.
    Our mobile Phones condition
    Our phones are imported from Finland,Hungary and Singapore; they are factory sealed with original packets with complete accessory, e.g. charger, extra battery and software c d.
    The phones are simfree and it’s never lock to any network, specification: (europeans/usa-specifications)
    general network gsm 900/gsm 1800/gsm 1900 platform - tri band (gsm900 + 1800 + 1900 MHz: country of manufactured origin: Finland,Hungary and Singapore.
    We assure you of 24/48hours door step delivery.
    We await your response.
    Best Regards
    Send us E-mail: moremobileinc1@yahoo.com
    joymobilestore@inmail.com
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  40. Boaz

    November 10th, 2006 at 8:05 am

    Here’s a multiplayer word game written entirely in ajax, called Acrowars. You can easily embed this game in your website. Find it at http://www.acrowars.com

  41. Christy- FOR STEVE

    November 23rd, 2006 at 6:54 am

    STEVE (and anyone else interested in blemeshack),

    You said to “drop [you] a line” concerning Blemeshack. I’m all over the web
    trying to contact anyone that has anything to do with Blemeshack. See, i’ve happily used it for months now (including the Google toolbar button), when yesterday, upon finding a text clipping on the Web, i couldn’t access my “shack”- it said that my email adrress wasn’t a registered user; there’s no account with that email. And just like that, all of my stuff is gone. Mysteriously, there’s no way possible to even contact anyone about it. But you can however, still sign up for a shack- meaning obviously it’s still running. Extremely frustrating. Thanks for your time, im hoping for a responding email.

  42. Tom Jackson

    December 29th, 2006 at 11:56 am

    Oh, yeah. This is well cool. Simple, yet addictive flash games - takes me back to my Commodore 64 years when I was younger.

  43. Paul

    January 12th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    hey is there any way of getting the “Maddness combat” game embeded on you’re myspace please?

  44. sweet

    February 14th, 2007 at 1:21 am

    Hello all!
    Here I want to recommend a terribly interesting website for flash games. The website is the biggest flash-online-game web of the world. There are over 4400 of every sort of flash games. It’s so funny! You must like it! Have a look at http://www.flashgameonline.net/en/ . Let’s have a break for the flash game right now! hooray!

  45. Anthony K

    February 24th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Hello All,
    I have a customizable word search game and would like to see if I can embed this in the blog.

    If you like the game, thank you for playing it!!!
    If you don’t like the game, still thank you for playing it!!
    Anthony

  46. Anthony K

    February 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Sorry I thought this post would allow me to embed code visit: http://www.atksolutions.com/flashgames.html and try custom word search as well as others,
    Thanks

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