The gotoAndPlay() team announces the birth of OpenSpace, a powerful Flash based isometric engine and framework for rapid development of multi-user virtual worlds and MMO communities.
The engine leverages the power of Actionscript 3 and SmartFoxServer, offering an unprecedented level of features and customizations.

We have launched a preview website with a lot of informations and demos.
Check it out!

If you are interested in building large multiplayer games and applications you will be happy to read an in-depth document that illustrates the integration between SmartFoxServer PRO and Terracotta, providing highly scalable services with no single-point-of-failure.

Read the white-paper here! 

UFHO is a unique turn-based multiplayer puzzle game that blends an original concept with addicting game mechanics and a bit of strategy. The resulting mix is a great gaming experience that will probably keep you hooked to screen for quite a while. We had the pleasure to interview the Italian developers behind UFHO and learn more about the concept and development of the game.

You can read the interview here.

Enjoy!

An interesting article appeared on the Gamasutra website: The Casual Games Manifesto

From the article’s introduction: “Casual games are vital to the future of the biz - but how does a developer navigate the middlemen-strewn digital distribution future? In this in-depth piece, Daniel Cook presents a manifesto to help casual game devs get loyal customers with great social games”

Ernesto Quezada submitted three new games to our showcase:

• in La Cucaracha you have to kill as many little roaches as you can; but beware of “La Cucaracha”, as she’s trying to protect the little ones
• Slippery Pong is a clone of the classic game Pong, but you control both (slippery) paddles
• Slippery Breakout is a clone of the classic game Breakout, however the paddle is not too easy to control…

Have fun!