Puzzle Your Way to a PS3: You could win a PS3 just by playing games!

ArmorGames.com is sponsoring Hero Interactive's latest contest and they want YOU to win a Play Station 3! What do you have to do? It's simple! Just go to ArmorGames.com and play Hero Interactive's latest game: StarShine 2: Puzzle Master. Create an awesome puzzle and submit it. That's it! The top 5 puzzles win!

Prizes:
1st Place/Grand Prize - a Play Station 3
2nd Place - An iPod Touch
3rd, 4th, and 5th Place - An iPod Nano

Be sure to submit your puzzle before Feb. 1st 2009, 11:59 pm U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Here's what you need to know:
1) You MUST have an ArmorGames account to enter.
2) When submitting your puzzle be sure to enter "contest [Your ArmorGames account name] in the Author field so we can contact you. Be sure to include "contest" followed by a space, and then your ArmorGames.com username. So, for example: if we submitted a puzzle, we'd use "contest HeroInteractive".
3) You may play and rate puzzles through any portal you wish, not just on armorgames.
4) Create as many puzzles as you like!
5) You may share your puzzles with your friends and family so that they can rate them. Simply send them this link: http://www.herointeractive.com/starshi ne2/?puzzleID=[insert your puzzle ID# here]
6) Down rating puzzles not created by you in an effort to skew the results will not be tolerated and will result in your entries (all of them!) being disqualified!

How the winners will be selected:
Hero Interactive, LLC will examine the 50 top rated puzzles and decide the winning five entries. Winners' usernames will be posted on the ArmorGames.com blog as well as the HeroInteractive.com blog. In addition, winners will receive emails at the addresses supplied when they registered with ArmorGames.com.
Judges at HI are looking for creativity as well as fun and solvability. In other words, you won't win just because your puzzle has tons of objects in it or is mega-hard. Try to think and be original without being ridiculously hard. (P.S. Having 40 green stars all go off at once has been done MANY times.)

Submit the most fun and original puzzle and you could own a PS3! <a>Click HERE http://armorgames.com/play/2554/starsh ine-2-puzzle-master to get started! <a />

We at Hero Interactive, fresh from the release of StarShine 2, have begun work on our next three exciting games: (in order of release) Pirate Defense, StormWinds: The Lost Campaigns, and Bubble Tanks Arenas. Here's a bit of information about each game!

PIRATE DEFENSE, is a tower defense game with a big twist! You are a pirate who has discovered a rather nice booty. However, being the greedy sillies that they are, other pirates are also after your prize. So you've set up camp on a steep hill where you can keep an eye on them. Instead of shooting from your towers you'll set up attack towers, also known as traps, to damage, move, capture, or kill those pesky pirates.

Towers are divided into two categories: triggers and traps. A trigger does no actual damage to your enemies, but sets off a trap. Here's a good example:

A pirate enemy is walking up the hill. He comes across a busty wench doll (that's tied to a rope) - she is the trigger. When our lusty pirate friend gets too close, the trigger is set. Up the hill, a log trap is linked to our trigger, and so it goes off and the logs are released. Linked to the log trap, but directly down hill from it is a bee trap (a swarm of bees are released). Linked also to the log trap is a pit with a tiger in it, which is opened up. So the logs roll down the hill, knock our pirate through the swarm of bees into the tiger pit.

Traps can be simple, or far more complicated than this. The bigger the traps, the bigger the bonus!

STORMWINDS: THE LOST CAMPAIGNS takes place after the events of StormWinds 1.5. We are very excited about greatly developing the StormWinds story, introducing new characters and plots. The Lost Campaigns will feature mostly the same gameplay of SW1.5 but will introduce five all new, long lost campaigns with all new enemies. TLC will also have a few new weapons, and all extra content will be free on armorgames.com (this includes all 8 EC weapons from SW1.5).

BUBBLE TANKS ARENAS isn't the Bubble Tanks 3 that some people have been looking for, but instead, it's a slight variation on the Bubble Tanks series. Rather than searching through an endless field of bubbles for enemies, you will be able to choose from a series of Arenas - Arenas are sequences of bubblefields, but in order to move into the next field you will have to clear the one that you're in of all enemies.

So for example, you may have to clear out 10 progressively more difficult bubblefields to complete an arena. Once you do, you get a score based on how far you got 'till you died, your time to complete, and so forth. Scores are submitted to high score boards and can earn you bubble tokens!

A very exciting feature of BTArenas is that players will be able to design their very own Bubble Tank! Using Bubble Tokens, you can purchase bubbles and better parts and then use your tank to fight in the arenas. We are also toying with the idea of designing your own enemies to submit to our server so millions of other people can fight them in the arenas.

We are extremely excited about the development of these games and hope you'll join us in our anticipation. More information will come later about release dates.

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From Hero Interactive, the makers of StormWinds 1.5, Bubble Tanks 2, and Microbe Kombat, comes the latest game to join the family: StarShine 2. StarShine 2, the sequel to HI's popular game StarShine, is a delightful and soothing game that belongs to the puzzle genre. Start a chain reaction to try to light up all the stars in the heavens. But watch out! Renegade stars and black holes can make things more difficult. This game introduces 50 new mind-boggling levels, new music, and awesome features that are sure to light up your face.

In addition to StarShine 2 comes its sister game: StarShine Puzzle Master. Tired of playing pre-made puzzles? Use Puzzle Master to create your own teasers. And when you're done, upload them to our server for potentially millions to play! Rate other people's puzzles and see whose is the best.

We at HI are extremely excited for the release of this game and hope that you'll join us in our starry anticipation! For more information on the game, release dates, screenshots, and a chance for cool prizes in our most recent fan art contest check back on our blog at www.herointeractive.com/blog where all the fun goes down!

Stay sparkly!

Hero Interactive's latest contest has been announced! All you have to do is send us your Hero Interactive related fan art and you could win an HI t-shirt, HI magnets and stickers, and your art being featured on the HI blog and newsletter! Crayons, collage, Photoshop, food, whatever, just make it art!

The Rules:
1) All entries must be submitted via e-mail by October 25th at midnight (this gives you over three weeks) at steph@herointeractive.com. If you don't have a scanner or good way to e-mail us your entry please mail it to us before the deadline at:

Hero Interactive
P.O. Box 405
St. Joseph, MI
49085

2) All art must be Hero Interactive related. Cool Bubble Tanks designs, a new logo, and a new kind of microbe for Microbe Kombat are all acceptable ideas. Spore or Fancy Pants artwork will NOT be accepted. You get the idea.

3) All art must be your own original work. If you work together with someone, that's fine, just please let us know that you have their permission to use it.

4) You must be 13 or older to participate.

For more details and examples of acceptable material check out our blog at www.herointeractive.com/blog.

Have fun!

We're finally getting close to completing the long awaited sequel to Bubble Tanks. While we still have just a few weeks to go, we wanted to show everyone that we are making good progress and give some idea as to what you can all look forward to. I hope you enjoy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE0xHwm mJjA&eurl=http://www.herointeractive.c om/blog/

or at our blog at

http://www.herointeractive.com/blog/?p =129#comments

Cheers!

We've recently been interviewed on FreeGamesNews.com, a popular flash gaming review site! Go check out the interview and feel free to share your thoughts!

Check out the interview!

In a week or two we should be releasing the massive upgrade to our game StormWinds. Although StormWinds recieved a 4.07 rating, we thought we could do better- and so we've grouped together all of your comments and the result is an upgrade we think we can all be proud of.

The new version supports many new engine changes, has 25 total weapons, has multiple campaigns with unique fortresses, shorter levels, new enemies, better sound effects, and best of all: customizable turret upgrades.

For a better look, check out our blog at: blog.herointeractive.com

Great news everyone! We now have a Hero Interactive blog which can be found at:

http://blog.herointeractive.com/

Today we posted a short video of Bubble Tanks 2!

Be on the lookout for our latest game called "Triangles" - based on... well... the games circles and squares. Of course, we had to up it a notch. Should be out this week.

Also in the works is Bubble Tanks 2.