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

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!

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!

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!

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.