Go

Just wanted to very quickly clarify some apparently common mistakes & misconceptions about Go, please be sure to spread the word effectively so as not to promote any confusion over these points:

• GoASAP is the Go animation Platform, not ‘package’. The term ‘animation package’ normally refers to Alex Uhlmann’s excellent work by that name. Go is called a platform because it’s a set of base classes that you build on to create your own animation tools.
  
  
• Go is not Fuse 3. It would be possible to build a Fuse syntax over Go, in fact you can start doing that now since Go ships with Sequencing. But, Go is a generic set of base classes that should support many kinds of animation systems.
  
  
• Not only is go not Fuse 3 but, it doesn’t have any specific syntax of its own! You create your own syntax, as you build your own tweens and other items and utilities. It’s all as generic as possible.
  
  
• Go is still at its infancy, and the hope is that you and others will contribute to the codebase to make it as lightweight, fast, and widely portable as possible. At this first release, the tweening portion is fairly complete including groups and sequences, no physics support yet. Join the Go mailing list to stay on top of updates.
  
  
• Finally, Go is not for beginning AS3 coders. It’s clearly documented and the code is well-commented and readable, but this is a toolkit for coders who want to roll their own, not a prefab kit like Fuse.

Thanks for helping to spread the word about Go!

Filed under: Go by mosesoak