Posted by Derek Yu
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:50:00 GMT
Adam “Atomic” Saltsman’s Flash game API flixel is out. It’s a vastly-improved version of the engine he used to create his popular web games Gravity Hook and FATHOM.
Features:
- High performance 2d Flash rendering
- Lots of retro game physics and effects built-in
- Easy to learn, uses no Flash libraries or Flash classes
- Object-oriented Actionscript 3
- Includes the source code for a complete game
- Forums to help collect tutorials and whatnot
And the online documentation is generated dynamically by Ivan “toastie” Safrin’s Nanodoc system.
Ladies and gentlemen, the world just became a better place to make games exist in.
Posted in Community, Developers, Technology | Tags AdamAtomic, IvanSafrin | 21 comments
Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:02:00 GMT
This post is long overdue. Shame on me!
Ivan “Russia’s Gift to Gaming” Safrin (“toastie” on the forums) has launched a sexy new indie gaming blog, all grey and pink and personal, featuring significant contributions from Adam “Host of Killer Pool Parties” Saltsman (a.k.a. “adamatomic”), called Play-Make.com. It’s more developer-centric than the average blog, with many links to postmortems, exclusive interviews, and other excellent things.
Beyond that, it provides a new perspective on The World of Indie Games, if you’re interested in that sort of thing. (And my guess is you are!) I love how personal it is. There’s even some juicy behind-the-scenes details on the first TIGJam!
While I’m writing this post, I might as well mention that Ivan’s been The Official TIGSource Photographer since Gamma 256. You can find his photos of numerous indie events on his Flickr photostream. (That is, if you really want to get an idea of just how infrequently I bathe!)
I was going to add this to the External Links section, but apparently I already did when I first sat down to write this post!
Posted in Nerd Love, Developers, Technology | Tags AdamAtomic, IvanSafrin | 9 comments
