Addy Van Der Borgh & JTS
Addy Van Der Borgh played tonight at The Good Ship in Kilburn. We caught him before the show and he was a true gent and recommended you catch him at The Good Ship for his warm-up shows before Edinburgh fringe festival (July 26th) or see his full line-up across the globe on his website. In return he said he'd mention us at these shows and he wore the spaceman for his act too!
Bad ass. Check out a YouTube video of him performing below.
Notes, now with live notifications!
Notes were introduced around New Years, they have been subject to an overhaul recently and now all registered players have been included in this open beta testing the new features such as live notifications, hiding and basic sorting.
How do I send a note?
If you already have friends, it's bleeding easy. Just press your name in the navigation bar, mine looks like this:
Once your panel has loaded, just press notes
Who is the note for? Start typing one of your friends, we'll fill in the rest. Pressing enter adds them to the list, keep typing, you can send a note to as many friends as you want (if you're sending spam, you might find you suddenly have no friends, just a warning to those would-be spammers out there)
Fill in your message and press "Send." Notes are a great way to extend your friendships with players to xbox or instant messaging with information you don't want to share with everyone on the forums. It's advisable not to share passwords or stuff like that, because it's still the internet and not everyone is who they say they are.
When you receive a note you will see a notification in the navigation bar, it will look like this. Just press it and you will see a list of all your new notes!
Pop and Fresh
Check out the new design on the home and games pages. We realised we needed to get with the times and blow-up those tiny little sugar cube images into whopping great wide versions.
In the process we thought, how can we show more games in one place? Well, we threw in the popular sort, it sorts games by how many people have fav'd them.
It seems that by far the most extremely loved and adored game is Attak, if you haven't played Attak yet then grab a buddy, sit them down and proceed to smash them through a series of office blocks with Sibor, Blane or one of the other nutball fighters.
By default you get to see what's fresh right now, the order in which we make 'em, newest right at the top working down to a little gem called Thermostorm. If you haven't played some of our older games, you should check them out — it's where we came from man!
Of course, High Speed Chase 2 is our latest creation, it's like a mix of High Speed Chase, The Heist and a whole bunch of ideas we had floating around in our brains.
We hope you love smashing cars off the road as much as we do, go play High Speed Chase 2 now d00ds.
Also, a quick nod to supergrover who captured the wonderful new Comatose icon, high fives all round.
Want to be a SPY?
This has just come in from an ex-MI6 agent, we're not sure exactly what he's trying to get across in that get-up but he certainly likes a little game called High Speed Chase 2.
You know, it's on iPhone and will be on the web in a few hours, stay tuned on our twitter.
High Speed Chase 2 Beta
My good friends of Johnny Two Shoes, the much anticipated release of High Speed Chase 2 is nearing. The heat of this release is pretty darn hot, so roll-up roll-up, leave a comment to be considered for a beta invite.
Please note, we don't invite everybody to the beta, but if you don't try, you'll never know. We will start the beta small and grow and grow until it's bursting onto the web.
Tell your friends and your friends friends. Good luck.
Johnny Two Shoes in 2009
It's 2010 and we're still here! 2009 was our most insane year yet, with the release of some wicked awesome games and us straying into a lot of new territory (even if it has been mostly behind closed doors).
We wanted to highlight some of the great things in 2009 related to Johnny Two Shoes, first off here are some stats from Google Analytics (who doesn't love stats?).
- Most played game at Johnny Two Shoes in 2009? — Attak, followed by The Heist 2
- Players visiting Johnny Two Shoes in 2009? — Over 10.5 million!
- Top Google search term? — "Attak"
- Most Googled player? — "PrettyPyrate" followed by "Shoop da whoop! SteveTheBad"
Our personal highlights include
- Interview with BBC (thanks to Illumina and their film crew)
- The Heist's 100,000,000th play (AddictingGames estimate over 100 million plays all around the web!)
- Introduction of our spaceman logo and the stickers printed by StickerRobot
- Our updated visual design
- Working with Warner Brothers (thanks to AKQA and Channel 4)
There's a ton more stuff we could have said, but the list would be massive. We want to say thanks to everyone who's played our games in 2009 and especially to those who join in with the community and give something back.
There's been so much planning in 2009 for this upcoming year, you will finally see the fruits of our labour. Have a great 2010, we'll be right there with you, high-fiving all the way into 2011.
Notes in Beta
Now available for everyone to try out now is the new notes feature, it's still finding its feet in terms of usefulness but it's on its way to becoming a new way to communicate privately among the community.
To use the notes feature, make sure you've validated your email address and you will then see a "Notes" icon in the user panel. Type a name of one of your beloved friends in the recipient box and it will fill the rest in for you. Ready to send? Hit Send Note and shazam, it's in your note stream.
Please bear in mind that it's a beta and submit any madness you come across to the appropriate forum page.
Consider this a little Christmas/New Year gift from us. Send a note now!
The Mochis: Game of The Year Awards
Johnny Two Shoes will be at the 2010 Flash Gaming Summit in San-Francisco, part of the event is "The Mochis", awards for the best games of 2009.
We think that Johnny Two Shoes has had a mad year, but amongst the madness we released some pretty sweet games that we had a lot of fun building and people have had a lot of fun playing!
So, vote for Johnny Two Shoes games in "The Mochis" game of the year awards for 2009. There are 11 categories, we qualify for the following categories with the following games:
- Best Indie Game - Banana Dash World 4
- Best Game Art - Banana Dash World 4, The Great Sperm Race
- Most Creative Game - Banana Dash World 4, The Great Sperm Race, The Heist 2
- Best Shooter Game - The Heist 2
- Most Creative Game - Banana Dash World 4, The Great Sperm Race, The Heist 2
You can vote through the official Flash Gaming Summit website.
Playing as Sherlock Holmes?
We never let a great game go un-noticed on our blog, so, something you can spend hours pouring over and enjoying multiplayer with your friends over facebook is 221b.sh — it's the prelude story to the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie that, considering how much time I really do spend in Baker Street, am really excited to finally watch come Boxing day.
Let us know how you get on with it, we’ve had a blast so far.
Play 221b.sh now (requires a Facebook account)
The NEW Johnny Two Shoes
We've just finished the transition to the new and improving Johnny Two Shoes look and feel. You can tell from the navigation that we've re-focused, our games take pride of place, then it's the players (you guys) and finally a place where we can all chat and share fun internet things, our custom forum.
For all unregistered players, there's a lot different. Registration is now a lot more comprehensive, it will guide you through what medals are and how to earn them along with introducing new registrations on the player page so existing players can get involved a lot quicker.
Once notes are introduced, the process of making friends and getting new players involved will be a lot easier and it's something we're really excited about.
We hope you enjoy the visual update, please, if you notice anything funky then get in contact with us in these comments, in the forum, via email or twitter and we'll happily straighten them out.