Staff Notices

[admin]

Go Gaia Update: dropplr!

Salutations, Gaians! I'm excited to announce that Go Gaia has been updated with a new feature: dropplr! dropplr is a Social Feed where you can post, follow your favorite Gaians, and even join groups - all from within the Go Gaia app! The feature is currently in Beta testing which means it is still under construction; make sure you leave feedback for any bugs you find or any additions you would like to see implemented!

Go Gaia for iOS
Go Gaia for Android

Learn how to access the new version of Android apps here.
iOS users will have the update automatically once they download the newest version of the app.

Visit the dropplr Feedback Thread to find out more information about the feature, see what's to come, and leave your feedback!

[Lanzer]

The end of Flash support for 2021 and Fiash games moving forward.

As of December 31, 2020, the official support for Adobe Flash had came to an end. Adobe Flash had been a terrific platform for producing web animations, graphic design, as well as web based games since 2000. Though eventually the platform became more powerful, and along came more and more security issues, and Adobe eventually seized support for the Flash platforms.

All popular browsers have now seized support for Adobe Flash. However, Flash games can still be played by clicking on the icon beside the URL bar and selecting "Allow Adobe Flash" or similar settings.

Gaia had been prioritizing resources to 1) ensure continued access to certain Flash games and 2) refresh existing Flash games to newer platforms. As Gaia had so many Flash games built through the years, converting all of Gaia's Flash games into other platforms at once is a near impossible task given the amount of resources we have.

Currently, some of Gaia's Flash games can be converted into its stand alone application to be run on Windows or Mac OS platforms. We started work with zOMG and a beta version is currently available.

To play zOMG as its own application:
First, please download the Adobe Air installer here (Windows) (Macintosh)

You can download the beta version of the zOMG application here

Here are a couple of Gaia Flash that will be converted to its application soon:

Aquarium
Housing
Fishing
Gaia Auto

Meanwhile, Gaia have a development team building a new version of Gaia Towns that will run on Unity. The new version of Towns will have brand new activities, features, as well as a new version of Gaia Fishing.

We are also starting work to convert some of Gaia's Flash games into HTML5. Starting with Jigsaw, slots and cards.

As for the rest of Gaia's Flash games, we will prioritize resource to eventually convert the rest of our games based on popularity. These are games such as:

Tiles
Word Bump
Switchem
SmashBlox
Word Blitz
Stack Attack

Our apologies that these projects have not started earlier due to a lack of resources, but we are confident that we will have the core Flash experiences converted very soon, and we will continue to ensure that our legacy features are still available.

[Jak Bauer]

Ask the Staff

Hey everyone,

Ask the Staff is now live! You can check it out here! It runs until 5:00pm PDT! So ask away!

Did you miss Ask the Staff today? Get your questions in for next's week ATS at our ATS pre-event thread!

[Lanzer]

Christmas Event Item Grant Fixed

The buttons for claiming the event items is once again working. Sorry for the delay in fixing it. sweatdrop

PS - Guild subforum purchasing through Platinum had also been fixed.

[Lanzer]

Registration and Mobile App Login Fixed

Gais just upgraded our web servers once again. We thought we caught all the major bugs but apparently registration was broken, as well as login for the Go Gaia mobile app.

These issues had just been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. sweatdrop

[Lanzer]

Runway Entry Bug Fixed

The broken image on the runway entry screen had just been fixed. 3nodding

[Lanzer]

Lake Kindred Loading Issue

Today we found a bug where Lake Kindred will fail to load and being stuck at the "ta da" message if a user has no kins in the inventory. The bug had just been fixed.

If you have no kins, just drop by the in game store and purchase the starter Kin bundle for 25 platinum. 3nodding

[Lanzer]

zOMG Fixed

Had a difficult bug to fix, but zOMG should be working once again.

Sorry for all the instability our new web server had caused. Once we worked out the bugs things will be a lot more stable than before. 3nodding

[Lanzer]

Gaia Runway submission fixed again

Sorry the last update caused some additional issues that needed to be fixed. You should be able to enter any Runway entries now.

[Jak Bauer]

Ask the Staff

Hey everyone,

Ask the Staff is now live! You can check it out here! It runs until 10:00 am PST! So ask away!

Did you miss Ask the Staff today? Get your questions in for next's week ATS at our ATS pre-event thread!

[admin]

Company Update Delay

Happy Friday, Gaians! Our regularly scheduled Monthly Update has been delayed a bit. But never fear - we'll be back tomorrow to bring you new company updates and pledges!

[Jak Bauer]

Ask the Staff

Hey everyone,

Ask the Staff is now live! You can check it out here! It runs until 5:00pm PDT! So ask away!

Did you miss Ask the Staff today? Get your questions in for next's week ATS at our ATS pre-event thread!

[Lanzer]

Web Browsers with Flash support

For those who wish to continue playing Flash games on Gaia, legacy browsers can still provide support for Flash games. One such browser is the Waterfox web browser, the open source version of the Firefox browser.

You can download Waterfox Classic from their download page here
Direct link: (Windows) (MacOS) (Linux)

As flash clients are subject to security vulnerabilities, please avoid using Waterfox Classic outside of Gaia Online, which may contain unsafe flash programs.

Another solution for Flash support is the Puffin browser.

Puffin parse web content on their cloud servers and deliver the rendered output to your computer, much like playing a streaming video or Stadia. This eliminates any security issues, however it requires a higher bandwidth internet connection, as well as a subscription to its service.

Learn more about Puffin browser here

[Jak Bauer]

Ask the Staff

Hi there,

Unfortunately due to a staffing issue we will be pushing Ask The Staff back to tomorrow, Wednesday. 01/27/21

So you still have a chance to get your questions in for this week’s ATS at our ATS pre-event thread!

[Jak Bauer]

Ask the Staff

Hey everyone,

Ask the Staff is now live! You can check it out here! It runs until 5:00pm PDT! So ask away!

Did you miss Ask the Staff today? Get your questions in for next's week ATS at our ATS pre-event thread!