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Advanced Character Physics

gotoAndPlay() team — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:29:00 +0000

Thomas Jacobsen, head of research and development at IO Interactive and creator of the physics simulation and the 3D pathfinder for IO’s game “Hitman: Codename 47″, gave us permission to publish his well known article about Advanced Character Physics.
This paper is not specific to Flash programming, but it’s a great resource for game development in general.
You can read it here, in our Articles section.

New resources

gotoAndPlay() team — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:00:00 +0000

Games and Articles sections updated: we published a new prototype (developed by Triqui) to create an “Indiana Jones map effect”, and a new game by Lomadrian called Stop.
Have fun!

New game published

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:52:50 +0000

We published a new game in our Games showcase: it’s errorBall, made by the game producers and electro punk band the errorplains.
Have fun!

Miniclip GameDev Contest!

gotoAndPlay() team — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:15:46 +0000

Today Miniclip has announced a nice game development competition! Games can be created in Flash, Director or Java and they should be submitted before November 18th. 2005. The winner will get a $3000 contract with Miniclip!

You can read all the details at this page

New Multiplayer tutorials!!

gotoAndPlay() team — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:49:29 +0000

After the release of SmartFoxServer PRO we have updated the Multiplayer Central section with 8 new tutorials showing some of the most advanced aspects of multiplayer server-side programming. Thanks to SFS PRO all the server side can be written using Actionscript so you’re not asked to learn new languages!

The Multiplayer Central now features more than 20 tutorials that will help you take the first steps in multiplayer programming and gradually learn more advanced features and techniques to build sophisticated apps and games.

You can read all the articles here!

SmartFoxServer PRO available!

gotoAndPlay() team — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:18:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that SmartFoxServer PRO edition is available! The list of new features introduced by SFS PRO is quite huge so we reccomend to read all the details in the official website. We have also updated the online documentation with many new tutorials and articles and you can expect to find many new resources in our Multiplayer Central in the next weeks!

You can check all the details, and download a free copy for evaluation on www.smartfoxserver.com

Stay tuned!

New game published

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:41:58 +0000

Stephen Maddern submitted his first Flash game to our Games collection: Super Monkey Poop Fight. Stephen said: “this is my first flash experience and it required the use of many tutorials. Thanks for all the help”.
On behalf of all our contributors: you’re welcome Stephen, keep on like this!

Game Patterns article

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:18:08 +0000

Today, in our Articles section, we published Zack Booth Simpson’s paper about Game Programming Patterns, which are named problems and common solutions in game programming. In the first half of the ’90s, Zack joined the game development company Origin Systems (which later became a subsidiary of Electronic Arts) as a programmer on Ultima. Eventually he became the Director of Technology at Origin and worked in a variety of roles on such games as the Ultima series, Wing Commander, Crusader, BioForge, and Ultima Online.

New game online

gotoAndPlay() team — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:33:12 +0000

Jakub Dvorsky sent us his first experimental Flash game: it’s a sort of puzzle/adventure game with wonderful graphics, where you have to help the little Samorost to avoid the collision of the incoming asteroid with his little world.
Have fun!

Flash Player 8 beta goodies!

gotoAndPlay() team — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:10:20 +0000

Only a few days ago the beta Flash Player 8 was released and you can already find tons of interesting resources and “hacks” to play with. We’ve collected a few of these appetizing links where you will find the complete set of features introduced by the new player, how to use them with the current Flash IDE and some very nice examples of their usage! If you have more links just add them in there!

Check this topic in our forums

Have fun!