Dinky Bomb Original was an online multiplayer Flash game, built for the converged service Gamer.tv several years ago. It was one of the first real-time multiuser experiences on the web in Flash technology. It grew to become one of the most popular web games, with all of the Dinky Bomb servers almost always full and now around 250,000 Google results. It even featured on TV.

Since then, Dinky Bomb has been redeveloped into 'Dinky Bomb Deluxe', using a different lobby system and a Java-based physics engine. This was shortly before Gamer.tv closed its web arm to concentrate on TV, selling off much of its content to a third party - hosting some of the games at WePlayHere. Dinky Bomb has recently been aquired by Atari and then sold off yet again to someone else (alas not me).

The team at the TWI run NOW.com / Gamer.tv converged services, which designed and built the original Dinky Bomb were:

Liam O'Donnell - concept, programming, game design, level design, sound design, animation

David Pharo - game design, level design, interface design, character design

Chris Reinke - character design

Tom Butler - logo design

Ciaran Tuohy - server backend

Stuart Law - server backend

Sungsoo Lee - additional graphics

Fran Atkinson - thought up the name Dinky Bomb