Bart Bonte

Bart Bonte is a Belgian independent game developer most well-known for his abstract puzzle games, among them Factory Balls (2007), Sugar, Sugar (2011), and Yellow (2017).[1][2][3][4] Some of the ideas he has built games around include rubber ducks, a CRT monitor in a field, and his daughter's teddy bear.[3] He releases his games under the moniker bontegames. Most of his games are made in Adobe Flash.
Biography
[edit]Bonte grew up in Belgium, and enjoyed playing games on his Commodore Amiga as a kid. From that time forward, Bonte knew he wanted to be a game developer, and in 2005, he released his first game, an escape room made in Adobe Flash. By 2017, he had developed and released over 50 games.[1]
On 3 May 2021, Bonte released The Bart Bonte collection on Steam and Itch.io, which includes 28 of his flash games "carefully packaged and remastered".[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Sinha, Anusha (1 July 2017). "App Weekly: Game developer Bart Bonte talks about creativity and the joys of game development". Firstpost.
- ↑ Harris, Iain (17 April 2018). "Indie Spotlight: Bontegames' Bart Bonte on creative constraints and the allure of puzzles". pocketgamer.biz.
- 1 2 Rose, Mike. "The wonderfully abstract worlds of Bart Bonte". Gamasutra.
- ↑ Bald, Cameron (19 March 2020). "Bart Bonte's green is the latest entry in his masterful puzzle game series". www.pocketgamer.com.
- ↑ Morton, Lauren (2021-05-03). "Here's 28 great old Flash games that just got re-released as a collection". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2026-03-20.