Flixel is a free Actionscript library that enables ActionScript3 programmers to prototype and create new games quickly and easily. It's a pretty awesome tool, and games like Canabalt, Fathom and Tuper Tario Bros. (among many others!) wouldn't be around without it. So far, it's only been capable of developing Flash games for the PC/Mac, but pretty soon, we'll be able to make iPhone games with it.
During today's Canabalt postmortem (a summary of which is coming soon!), Adam "Atomic" Saltsman made this special announcement and went into a little more detail on what Flixel for iPhone will be capable of. In addition to its normal functionality, it will feature a rudimentary Actionscript 3-to-Objective-C translator to accelerate iPhone ports of Flixel games. There's still a lot for me to learn about programming, but I got a feeling having this development kit/framework at our disposal will make development for the platform a lot more accessible.
Flixel for iPhone is not yet finished, but a private release beta will begin very soon, with the public release to follow.
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7:40 PM on 03.10.2010
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And I guess they should be good.
I've always wondered about stuff like that. :/
Basically. Sometimes site traffic and side jobs (I'm assuming the individuals behind this make games as well).
It's really just a labor of love when people do this.
I think Adam built the library as a side project, he developed most of the code while making his own games. I don't think its profit driven, more community driven.
There is a similar set of libraries called flashpunk, they are also free, and I think the guy who made this knows Adam as well, they link to each others sites.
I am definitely going to play around with it, check it out, the free library means that I can make some stuff for fun and give it away