Richard Nias, aka Crashlanding, submitted a collection of 11 tutorials describing all the aspects of developing a space shooter game: movement, shooting, enemies, sound, etc.
You can read them in our Articles section.

In the newly published game titled The Paratrooper, developed by Daniele, you have to help a paratrooper to reach his boat safely without being hit by the birds.
Find it in our Games section!

FishEye sent us his first contribution to gotoAndPlay(): Ladymole!
In this addictive game you have to smash the moles coming out from the ground, but pay attention not to hit the lady mole!
Check it out in the Games section.
Have fun!

The October 2004 Spotlight issue features a very interesting open source project that will surely make many Flash game developers happy. We are talking about gameSWF, a tool that is capable of rendering SWFs through hardware acceleration using openGL. Sounds good?

The project is still under development but it is already usable and it’s well worth a look.

We have interviewed its creator, Thatcher Ulrich and you can read the article HERE

Francisco Rubiales, from motion 4 graphics has kindly sent us a notice about a new open source product they are going to release: FlashBlog.

FlashBlog is an promising blogging system based on a Flash interface and on a Apache/Php/MySql backend.

At the moment the site speaks only Spanish, however it’s well worth a visit!