On February 6th, 2009, we challenged the community to show us the power of Flash platform and the ingenuity of its developers.

The deafening response came back this week in the form of 29 kick ass games from some of the best Flash game developers in the world. The entries run the gamut from retro game remakes to impressive showcases of some of Flash’s most under utilized capabilities.

Each one of these amazing games is 4,096 bytes or less. To illustrate how small that is, you can fit two of these games, with room to spare, into the same hard drive space occupied by the Google logo (8,558 bytes). Comparing it visually with a 3MB MP3 gives a real sense of just how small these games really are:

We assembled a crack team of judges to pour over each entry and pick the competition’s 1st Place and 2nd Place winners. We need your help to award the Audience Choice prize. It will go to the entry that receives the most votes before next Friday, March 20th, 2009 (1st and 2nd place are not eligible though). Want to vote? Skip the awards. Otherwise, drum roll please…

First Place Award

The First Place Prize of $50 in cold hard cash, and a grab bag of great indie games goes to A-steroids.

First Place Prize sponsored by:

Second Place Award

The Second Place Prize of any Flash related book from Amazon.com of up to $50.00, goes to Dungeon Romp.

Second Place Prize graciously sponsored by Gaming Your Way:

Voting Station

Play the entries and cast your vote:

Thank You!

Thank you to all the competitors who entered the competition. It was a truly challenging task to pick only two winners out of so many amazing entries.

Thank you to Michael Scarpelli and Chris Rhodes for helping me out with the judging.

Thank you to Gaming Your Way for providing the awesome second place prize (and for fielding an entry). You guys rock!

More 4k Flash Games?

We’ll be posting more information on the next 4k Flash game competition that will be held sometime around July of this year. Subscribe to our RSS feed to get notified!