Well, good news! The Flixel game engine is released! What does this mean? This could be groundbreaking news for Flash / Actionscript3-based game developers.
flixel is a completely free collection of Actionscript 3 files that helps organize, automate, and optimize Flash games; an object-oriented framework that lets anyone create original and complex games with thousands of objects on screen in just a few hours, without using any of the Flash libraries.
Open, attached to a community, with a forum and a decent style. Any more questions to ask? Nooo. Some days ago the developers released a little “Hello World” game, called Fathom.
Update: I made an Interview with Adam Atomic about Flixel.
[…] Flixel ist eine freie ActionScript 3-Bibliothek, die die Spieleprogrammierung in Flash erleichtern will. Sie ist nicht für die Flash-IDE entwickelt worden, sondern für die Flex-Werkzeuge. Flixel funktioniert sowohl mit dem Flex Builder (kommerziell) als auch mit dem freien Flex-SDK. [Digital Tools] […]
Posted on June 9th, 2009 at 11:38[…] that I read about the release of Flixel – a Flash/Actionscript game engine – over at the excellent Digital Tools blog. After reading the blurb, and looking at the great ‘hello world’ game produced […]
Posted on June 12th, 2009 at 00:20