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New forum updates!

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:09:43 +0000

Hello,
we updated the latest forum sections “The code library” and “The Lab” with some useful material. In the code library you will find a new AS 2.0 class for handling asynchronous timeline events created by Lapo, called TimeController. You will be able to download the sources and see it in action in a simple example.

In The Lab you will find dozens of interesting links that will get you started on the new Actionscript 3.0, the new re-packaged flash framework and the flash player 8.5 (a.k.a. as Actionscript Virtual Machine 2).

Still here? Don’t hesistate and follow this link

Version 3.0 !

gotoAndPlay() team — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:43:46 +0000

Welcome to gotoandplay.it version 3.0!
With this new upgraded edition of the website we’d like to add more interaction between users, allowing more feedback comments and better game rating system.

From version 3.0 the game votations will start from scratch with a better system, similar to what we use in our Game Reviews.
Before we kiss goodbye to our old rating system we’ve designated the “top 20” games submitted by our users! You can check the best games in the gotoAndPlay 2005 Awards. We’d like to congratulate with the top three titles and thank all the submitters and supporters of the website.

News and forums:
Among the other enhacements we now have a cool new blogging system and new forums sections devoted to “experiments” with the latest Actionscript 3.0, a “Code Library” and a sections for job offers and requests.

Game Reviews:
Another important aspect of gAP() 3.0 will be game reviews. We’ve paused them for a while because our review system needed a few improvements. Now they’re done and we’re ready to start again. We’ll be able to extend the ability of making game reviews to all those of you who are interested. More details coming in the next days.

Links section:
The links section has been reorganized in categories and we’ll constantly add new resources as we find them.
Feel free to suggest any interesting game or game-dev related website.

New skins:
Oh yeah! Of course.
We’ve reskinned the site a little bit, paying homage to some of our all-time favourites games.
Scroll the homepage to the bottom to check them all! ( … sorry MS IE users! No PNG shadows for you )

New learning material:
In the past weeks we’ve stopped the addition of new contents in order to concentrate on the new version.
A lot of new articles and games will pop up in the next days!

Stay tuned

Back online!

gotoAndPlay() team — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:47:42 +0000

Hello,
we’ve recently gone through a server change, and we had some down time due to problems out of our competence. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We’re also working on the new gotoAndPlay() version 3.0 which will be online soon!

stay tuned!

gAP() version 3.0 coming soon…

gotoAndPlay() team — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:30:55 +0000

Hello,
we’re currently working on the next update of gotoandplay.it, version 3.0. The new edition will have a renewed review system, better news/blogging system, new submitted games ranking system, enhaced forums and overall better “interaction”.

The new updates should see the light during the current month. You can read more about these enhacements in our boards.

Stay tuned!

Theo Avatar Chat

gotoAndPlay() team — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:55:12 +0000

We’ve added the Theo Avatar Chat in our games page!
The chat is based on a realtime 3D isometric engine called TheoEngine and powered by SmartFoxServer. The chat features fully customizable characters, detailed environments, moderators, smilies etc… Also TheoEngine allows an almost infinite number of modifications thanks to TheoSDK.

You can learn more on TheoWorlds website.

SmartFoxServer 1.3.0 updates

gotoAndPlay() team — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:19:02 +0000

Hello,
SmartFoxServer Basic and PRO were updated to version 1.3.0!
The new release addresses some minor bugs that were reported in our Support forums, introduces new features, new examples and updated documentation.

You can download the new update from the official site or from the Multiplayer Central

Flash Player 8.5!

gotoAndPlay() team — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:21:51 +0000

It looks like this second half of the year will be very prolific for Macromedia. We’ve just put our hands on the latest Flash 8 and very cool new things are just behind the corner.

Macromedia announced the imminent release of Flash Player 8.5, Flex 2 and Flex Builder 2 (based on Eclipse).
It seems the new Flash player will make all developers much more happy, thanks to a great speed improvement. Also it will add Actionscript 3.0/E4X support, binary sockets and a lot more! And please don’t call it “Flash Player” anymore… from now on it’s the AVM (Actionscript Virtual Machine)!

Here you find the press release. And here you can learn and discuss more about these great news.

Mode 7 prototype made in Flash 8

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:13:13 +0000

Frédéric Heintz submitted his Mode 7 prototype to our Articles section. it was developed using the new Flash 8 capabilities, and it shows the impressive speed improvements of the new Flash platform.
For more informations, or to contact the author, you can refer to this post in our forum.

Striking Saints

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:31:23 +0000

Joep van Leijsen submitted his Striking Saints, in which you have to shoot at “saints” (?) falling from the sky using a flower (quite strange, isn’t it?). They carry a symbol: the “X” indicates the enemies, trying to reach and kill you after they touch the ground, while those with an “O” move out of the game area giving you bonus points/lives (even if it’s hard to realize it, because no message is displayed, or sound played).
The game is quite fast, in fact in a few minutes you can reach level 16 or more and a lot of points. Maybe it’s even too fast, in fact at higher levels the number of enemies falling is huge, while the rotation of your flower keeps being slow.
Game graphics are ok, but maybe they could change from level to level, to give the game more variety. Also it’s not clear why using a symbol to characterize friends vs enemies: maybe different graphics would create a better result.
The overall impression is that the game suffers of being too repetitive: its scheme never changes, and after some minutes you could be a little annoyed.
In the end, in our opinion this game is good for occasional gamers, having just some minutes of relax during the launkbreak at work, while maybe more experienced gamers will look for something less repetitive.
Let us know what’s your opinion in our Submitted games forum.

Three new games published

gotoAndPlay() team — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:04:58 +0000

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.