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

Over the past two years I've been working on Kliktopia.org, an attempt to archive old Klik games at scale by bringing together a number of previous archival projects and my own personal collection and making it as easy as possible to identify and submit old games to be archived. I'm launching Kliktopia today with over 1,000 Klik games so please check it out. A key element of the project is the Kliktopia Uploader tool which makes it easy to search your PC for old Klik games - the tool lets you know if the game is not already on our archive and lets you upload it.

The archive is not intended to replace The Daily Click or its Klik Museum. For example, it doesn't prioritise new games over older ones, it doesn't have a review system, and games don't have descriptions or genre information. What it does do is help you find old Klik games that you played (or made) years ago and help ensure that as much of our heritage is preserved as possible.

Entura suggested we have more polls, so I have now created a Poll Suggestion thread. The first poll suggestion was from MonadoBoy64 for a poll relating to favourite video game soundtracks, so I've made a poll on which classic video game franchise has the best music. Take part now, and provide your thoughts in the comments!

In terms of the previous poll which ran from March 2018, 161 people responded to the poll asking: "What did you start clicking with?". The results ranked by number of votes were: Fusion 2.5 (39% / 62 votes); Klik & Play (34% / 54 votes); The Games Factory (15% / 24); Multimedia Fusion 2 (8% / 13); The Games Factory 2 (3% / 5 Votes); Click & Create (1% / 2 votes); and Multimedia Fusion 1.x (1% / 1 vote).

Round #41 of the Picture Me This competition was won by Hayo, but the winner for Round #42 is still up for grabs. Keep an eye on the Competitions Forum which is where new rounds will be posted

Head to the Competition Forum because I've brought back Picture Me This (starting at Round #41). Guess Click games based on scrambled screenshots before anyone else does to get a shiny TDC tag/badge! If nobody guesses it then increasingly descrambled versions will be posted.

Clickteam have announced a special free time-limited version of Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Standard to help make people's time staying inside a bit more enjoyable and creatively productive. You get the full CF2.5 experience (except the exporters) until the 1st of June 2020. Check out: https://www.clickteam.com/stuckinside for details.

Also, please share your thoughts on us running a Game of the Year competition (or competitions) for all of the great games submitted to TDC.

A bit of a mix this time, with new games AND a new software utility:

• Hue Library by Parker Boyce, a "lightweight colour utility for creative professionals" made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5+.
• Bubble Horde Deluxe by Ghost Data Media, a "fun game with 3 game modes and engaging gameplay!" made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5+.
• Signal Lost by Ghost Data Media, a "A visual novel made as part of AIE's 48 Hour Game Jam" (pictured right) made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5+.
• Smiley World by nanoco, a platformer that was initially developed in Klik & Play using a 16-bit Windows 3.11 environment and then finished off in Clickteam Fusion 2.5+ with minimal tweaks. There is also a discussion about Smiley World on the forum.

Aside from software releases and forum posts, we also have an updated project from our Projects section. Otter has been posting updates on Project: Vagabond PI, a detective game which started development back in 2011 as Public Investigator: Curse Of The Swamp Monster.

First up, we have three new (or remastered) games to enjoy:

• Alex & Friends' Quest Remastered made by BigAl0104 with Clickteam Fusion 2.5.
• Super Mega Death Pong made by hellzy using Clickteam Fusion 2.5.
• End of The Living by William Fudge using The Games Factory 2.

Secondly, Knockturnal wrote a "short Ode to TDC", a forum thread which sparked a bit of reflection from TDC members on their experience of the Klik community over the years. Feel free to join in the discussion to share your memories!

And speaking of old times, if you missed out on the SmileyHouse Reunion you can still play the classic Klik MMORPG SmileyHouse at https://smileyhouseonline.com/. If you had an old account, to get your account back please talk to Code6 on the SmileyHouse Discord channel linked to on the website.