October 2003

Hi,
here comes the new gotoAndPlay() News Letter!

First of all, as always a big THANK YOU!!! to all our contributors.
And now lets go with the news!
The Games section has been completely renewed: a new index, specific pages and rating system for each game. Today we have reached the number of 20 games!!! The new entries, since the last news letter, are:

Castle Adventure by Kenneth Walton
Easter Egg Hunt by Brainson Stuttgard New Media
Fighter X809 by Good_bytes
Pacman by Paul Neave
Snake by Paul Neave
Space Invaders by Paul Neave
Blocks Ultra by Good_bytes
Hexxagon by Paul Neave
Simon by Paul Neave
Tetris by Paul Neave
The Small World
of Tetris		 by Good_bytes

You can play them HERE

A lot of new articles and game prototypes with source code have been added to the Articles section. In particular our request for beginner resources made in the last newsletter has been supported with a good set of articles. Keep on like this!

What's new in the Articles section:

  • Aditya Bhargava, Mad-Sci and Magnetos explain and show different methods (with different difficulty levels) to shoot bullets in action games;
  • the “prolific” Mad-Sci sent us a set of tutorials for beginners, regarding sprite movement , collision detection and changing rooms ;
  • from Steve Happ, a long tutorial on the creation of a SpaceInvaders-like game ;
  • two prototypes written by Marmotte show the development of different art-based games (differing form the tile-based ones);
  • in a tutorial and a prototype, Magnetos helps game developers to move movieclips and flip pages ;
  • Lapo created an interesting particle effect , useful to simulate explosions;
  • in three articles of growing difficulty, Joey Lott gives an introduction to the new ActionScript 2.0 released by Macromedia with Flash MX 2004, focusing on typed variables and class definition.

You can check these tutorials and prototypes in our Articles section

A new section has been added to your preferred website : the gotoAndPlay() blog!
We can now better keep you informed with news about web games, flash and site updates. You will also be able to
post your comments for each news.

Two new spotlight interviews have been published: "Globulos" a nice multiplayer game by Globz and an interview with the guys at MelaZeta, an italian multimedia company.

More site improvements and a little "surprise" are coming in the next months.

Thanks to your support our gaming community is growing day by day. We are always in search for new ideas and contributions to share with other passionate flash game addicts ...
The place to post your games, articles, tutorials, prototypes, ideas, questions… is always the same: info@gotoandplay.it!

That's all, folks! See you next month!

the gotoAndPlay() team

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