Well, here goes... consider this "beta" for now, for sure:

I've turned on the User Points system! That means you can earn points when you're logged in and do various point-rewarding things! Yay.

For now, the only ways to earn points are as follows:

• Rating games -- look for the newly-enabled rating block on the game pages. Click the star that signifies what rating you think the game deserves. DON'T SPAM THIS, please. I have no problem with you voting on a ton of games... IF you're really playing the games and rating them intentionally and critically. If you just randomly open games and vote, not having played them... well, that will suck. It's not good for making sure the ratings are valid. If this system gets abused, I'll be turning off the points here.. and that would also suck.
  (limit = 10 ratings/votes per day)
• Posting Comments -- Comments posted by registered users will reward points... again, don't bother abusing this or you'll just get your account deleted. Thanks.
• Successful Invites of New Members! -- This is a good one... log in to your account (of course) and look for the "Invite a Friend" link in your user menu. When/if someone you invite registers, you'll get a gob of points! Don't use this to spam, please. I can see how many invites get sent out and if I get complaints... ban-o-rama!
• (Other stuff coming later)

So, please participate and let's see some points rack up! AGAIN though, please don't be spammy! If you don't have anything worth commenting about, just don't bother. It will be easy to see point-hogs by tons of "First!!!1!!!" comment posts all over the place. Just don't do it, 'cause it makes you look like the Troll that you are! (Well, not "you".. I mean people who do that kind of thing are Trolls... you aren't going to do that, are you?? o.O )

I think I'll be doing something like "Seasons" where points are reset at the beginning of each season.. that way, new players will get a chance to compete on occasion. Hopefully that doesn't irritate too many people, but I think it will be a good way to keep the sites fresh and keep new players interested.

Enough typing.

Thanks for visiting!! Now sign up, log in, invite your friends and get playing!! :)

One of the biggest requests (by me, too) we've gotten by players is to be able to save bookmarks of favorite games... well, now you can! Woot!!

When you're browsing around playing our free online games and you find a game you dig, you can now hit the "Bookmark this" link right below the game and we'll add it to your personal bookmark list! No, not your web browser's bookmarks, right into your user account!

Of course, you may have figured out by now that you'll need a free member account to save these bookmarks, but that's no biggie. You can sign up right now.

Once you have an account, you'll see a link to "My Bookmarks" in your user menu after you log in. Click that puppy and behold your personal game bookmark list! Killer.

More great features (and reasons to sign up) coming soon! Thanks for playing and bring more friends!

Big thanks to the work of Gilarino in designing our new Flash Game Post logo and site graphics! Woot! I'm really jazzed about how this is coming along, but it's not quite done yet. I have been working on getting the core bits converted from his designs into a site theme, and I have more to do. For now, I think it looks nice and is a good stopping point so I can go get some sleep. (Yeah, I do sleep occasionally.)

I really hope you folks like how the site is shaping up! I still want to make a bunch of changes to how the category pages look and add some new games again (the game submissions are piling up while I do this other work!) I'll get into it as fast as I can, since it will really help make the site work better.

Thank you VERY much for dropping by! I sincerely hope you're all having fun and I would really appreciate if you'd keep spreading the word about the site! Actually, if you sign up for a free user account, there's a link to "Invite a Friend" in your user menu! Use that to drop notes to your pals about Flash Game Post.

...actually, soon I hope to be awarding points for users who get new members through Invites! (I'll have to explain that later, since it's not working quite yet. Just wanted to pique your interest. :) Don't worry if you do Invites now though, I'll be sure you get your points later.

Well, I'm done writing this mess -- I sure got sidetracked there for a spell. Whoops!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Cheers!

[UPDATE 3/19/09: I've gone ahead and turned off the old site. I need to just let it go, so I've notified all current members of the old site and I'm setting it to "offline". Please accept my apologies if this really irritates you, but I need to let that thing die. Hopefully you will all like the new site and will keep coming back to see how things shape up!]

There has already been a bit of an uproar (a quiet one, but there are some vocal people dropping notes) about how I've abruptly slapped the current site visitors by dropping all the old games. I told you before I'd be working on that in the future. However, I agree it's lame to remove all those without warning, so I've plopped the old stuff into an archive... I think it won't be permanent, since I don't want to manage that old site anymore.

So, if you have a game that you really liked on the old site, hopefully you can find it in the archive. If you have a bookmark, you can update the bookmark by adding in the path "/old-arcade/" after the site domain like this: "...flashgamepost.com/old-arcade/..." and it should bring up the game page.

HERE'S THE DEAL, THOUGH: If you really want to play the game, drop me a line and tell me what the game is! If you don't do that, I won't know what you want to play and I'm not likely to keep it around.

There's some chance I'll import a bunch of those games in here, but to be honest, many of them really suck! Others of them are pissing me off with links out to other sites and such (the current set of games also have links, but the general quality of the games is much improved, so I'm living with most of them for now.) I just have a MUCH better database of free online games here now than the old site had... I really think you'll agree.

At any rate, here's the link to the old arcade. Hopefully I can kill it off soon, but for now, you can stop sending flame mail about it! :P

[mod: link removed. --Hoza]

Have fun... and thanks for all the great email too! :) I'm glad so many people like what's going on, even if the new site is still sparse.