Congratulations to James Luke for winning Game of the Month #373 with Soldier Men 2. Thanks to everyone who submitted games.

Kliktopia has added a number of games to its archive and has launched a page for Halloween games.

Kliktopia has also released Klik & Replay Episode #1 - Halloween Games on YouTube, which follows in the tradition of The Daily Click's Klikcast. Happy Halloween everyone!

The winner of June's Game of the Month (#372) is Dungeon of Fears by LordHannu

We have now started voting for July's Game of the Month. The contenders are:

• Peter Parker's Cavalcade of Dumbness
• Puzzle marathon
• Two Buff Dudes Fighting For Their Life, The Game
• Soldier Men 2

We also have a new poll, asking how many Klik games you have purchased. This excludes example games but includes games you specifically paid for (e.g. Five Nights at Freddy's or Spud's Quest), Humble Bundle games and voluntary donations to authors. Some commercial Klik games are listed at Clickteam's Indie Game Creator's page. Feel free to talk about your favourites in the comments!

In other news, Picture Me This Round #50 is underway and Kliktopia is up to 1,847 entries!

I have written an article on how to play old Klik games on Windows 10. This could come in handy if you're playing games in the Klik Museum.

Meanwhile, hellzy has brought us DIAREGNUM: Chrono Hunter, a "shooter game with time-stopping action" made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

If you have not done so already, please check out the June Game of the Month games and vote for a winner. Votes were reset on the 23rd of August so if you voted before then you will get the option of voting again.

Finally, Picture Me This Round 50 is up for grabs so the first person to start a thread for it on the Competitions Forum can start it up again!

Unfortunately the last Game of the Month poll didn't work because not everybody could vote so please vote again using the poll facility. The games are the same as listed here. Sorry for this irregularity.

The answer to the question "What is your favourite modern gaming console?" was the Nintendo Switch which got 15 votes (compared to 4 for the PS4 and 3 for the Xbox One)

Games from July (will be subject of next GOTM poll):

• Peter Parker's Cavalcade of Dumbness, a shoot 'em up by BigAl0104: "A collection of joke games I made for a friend. Starring Peter Parker!"
• Puzzle marathon, a puzzle game by LordHannu: "Puzzle, match 3 of the same kind."
• Two Buff Dudes Fighting For Their Life, The Game, an action game by Terminus: "Fast-paced fighting game, with over the top speed and brutality."
• Soldier Men 2, a Real Time Strategy game by James Luke: "Soldier men kill stab massacre"

Games from August (so far):

• Fishhead: Blueprint - Demo, a platformer game by Hayo: "Help Fishhead retrieve the stolen blueprint in a new colourful platformer!"
• DDAY WARS, an action game by James Luke: "Soldiers triumph war battle fight kill murder dearth"
• Capsule Savior, a platformer game by Guerra: "Collect pills and try to survive in this strange platform game"
• Area 51 Weeb Defense 1.11], a tower defence game by Ghost Data Media: "They announced when they were arriving...That was their greatest mistake!"

In other news, Kliktopia now has 1,691 entries and if you go to the details page for a game on Kliktopia it now links through to the related game entries by the same author at The Daily Click. Let us know if any links are missing and if you have old games to archive then try out the Kliktopia Uploader tool.

• Dungeon of Fears - Retro game. Slash creatures in a dungeon.
• Soldier Men 1 - Soldier men fight each other.
• The Unicycle Adventure - Ride around on your unicycle and obtain important flags.
• Two Flags - Medieval beat-em-up with a knight.

Three new downloads submitted to TDC made with Clickteam Fusion 2.5+:

• Two Flags, a beat-'em-up game by LordHannu
• Soldier Men 1, an action game by James Luke
• Dungeon of Fears, an adventure game by LordHannu

• BigAl0104's has posted a project update on Knight's Quest RPG
• Clickteam are running a Fusion Summer Sale until the 9th of July. Check out their web store and Steam page
• Kliktopia now has 1,445 games and counting - download historic freeware games from and contribute games to the archive!

Topping the competition with 4 votes is Star Slider by Yai7, making it April's Game of the Month! Second place was StakeOut! by MonadoBoy64 which got 3 votes, and third place was DualShot by supastupid which got 1 vote. Congratulations to the winner and thanks to everyone who submitted their games to TDC!

No games submitted so far in May, so a GOTM is not likely for this month. If you are interested in joining in developing a community game then check out Sketchy's forum thread.

Remember Game of the Month from 2009? Well... it's back!

In alphabetical order, the games approved in April were the arcade games DualShot, Caffinated and StakeOut! as well as the puzzle game Star Slider. Check them all out and vote for your favourite!

Speaking of polls, our question of which classic video game franchise has the best music? has an answer, and it is Mario with 6 votes. Mega Man got 4 votes, Zelda, Final Fantasy and Donkey Kong all got 3 votes, Sonic got 2 votes and Castlevania, Metroid and Pokemon each got a vote. Banjo-Kazooie gets an honourable mention for gaining two write-in votes.

As one poll closes another one opens, and so now we want to know which of the big three modern gaming consoles is currently your favourite (based on a suggestion by The MPP). LET THE VOTINGS COMMENCE!

New relases made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5(+) submitted to TDC:

• Caffinated, an arcade game by MonadoBoy64
• StakeOut!, an arcade game by MonadoBoy64
• Valkeep, an application by P-L-T-X
• Star Slider, a puzzle game by Yai7
• DualShot, an arcade game by supastupid

Hundreds of old Klik games releases have also been added to Kliktopia, including many originally submitted to The Daily Click which were contributed to the Kliktopia archive by TDC admin Chris Street.

And last, but not least, check out the SmileyHouse website for details on the SmileyHouse reunion on Sunday May 3rd, 2020 at 1pm Eastern. This include details on this classic Klik MMORPG which I helped develop along with Code6 as well as information on when the reunion will start in your time zone and how to join the SmileyHouse Discord. If you played the game back in the day you can even get your old account back. Unlike the 2019 SmileyHouse Reunion this one will have PvP enabled!

A selection of Easter-themes gamed previously submitted to The Daily Click:

• Dungeon TV Easter Special, a puzzle game by The Peasants from 2006
• Easter Avenger, a platformer by Josepho 2006
• Bernard & Hank: Springtime Again, a platformer by Hayo from 2007
• Scrumpy Ninja and the case of the bad eggs, a platformer by 3kliksphilip from 2009