Our Games collection has 3 new entries:

• X-treme Ball 2 is a strange game developed by LinkOne, where you have to control a ball and fire at other balls crossing the screen; the game’s menu graphics and soundtrack are nice, while the concept should be refined to increase its longevity
• Jawbreaker is the version of a classic puzzle game developed by Jeroen Beckers; this version doesn’t add anything to the original game concept, but it’s the first example we’ve ever seen of a game using Flash components
• finally, Asteroid’s Revenge is a funny “upside down” version of the classic Asteroids coded by Yinan Chen: you control a single asteroid and have to avoid the shots of multiple starships…
  The game’s graphic reflects the original one, but maybe the menu graphics could be improved

As you have seen, from now on we would like to add a brief comment whenever we tell you that a new game is online: in this way we think we can help their authors and all the other game developers to improve their own works… and we hope that you will leave a comment in the blog (as soon as it will be possible again) to tell us if you agree or not.

Mariam Dholkawala and Macromedia gave us the permission to publish Mariam’s article Cryptic Capers: Best Practices for Mobile Game Development that first appeared on the “Mobile and Devices Developer Center” on the Macromedia website. In this article you will learn the basic steps in building complex mobile games for Flash Lite enabled devices.
This is the first article on mobile gaming topic that we host on gotoAndPlay().

Our contributor Neodroid submitted a new prototype implementing a class to create particle effects, and a game named Scrabbler which is a good example of use of those FXs.
Happy experimenting and playing!

A new action game is hosted in our showcase: it’s Lord Of The Stars, developed by Strout’s Ink Games. Choose your hero and start a journey in mysterious lands to collect the stars of power!
Find it in our Games section and… have fun!

After the summer break we’re back with our monthly issue of the Spotlight.
This month we feature maybe one of the most ambitious projects ever attempted with Flash: DOFUS, a huge MMORPG (massive-multiplayer-online-rpg) created by the talented French guys of Ankama Studio.

Enjoy the reading.