Flixel
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Flixel is a free Flash
Actionscript
library created by Adam Saltsman (aka Adam Atomic). It provides some useful base classes for creating 2D Flash games and other content. It was originally built up from Saltsman's work on several games such as Gravity Hook, Fathom, and Canabalt.
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
Actionscript
ActionScript
ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. . It is a dialect of ECMAScript , and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of...
library created by Adam Saltsman (aka Adam Atomic). It provides some useful base classes for creating 2D Flash games and other content. It was originally built up from Saltsman's work on several games such as Gravity Hook, Fathom, and Canabalt.
Features
- Animations
- Collisions
- Movement
- Tilemaps
- Particle effects
- Visual effects such as flickering, screen-shaking, blend-modes, alpha adjustments, etc.
- Simple physics (Box2DBox2DBox2D is a free open source 2-dimensional physics simulator engine written in C++ by Erin Catto and published under the zlib license. It has been used in Crayon Physics Deluxe, Rolando, Fantastic Contraption, Incredibots, Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, Transformice, Stripe physics2, and many online Flash...
can also be used with Flixel) - Keyboard and mouse access
- Audio controls for volume and muting
- Pausing gameplay
- Site-locking
- Pre-loading
Notable games made with Flixel
- Tower of Heaven (Flash port)
- Canabalt
- Hello Worlds
External links
- Official website
- Official Flixel wiki on GitHub
- Flixel wiki at FlashGameDojo.com
- Flixel source on GitHub
- Interview about Flixel v1.1 at DigitalTools.com
- Flashpunk, a similar freewareFreewareFreeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
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