[casual_games] Question about Flex in web games.

[Ricky Haggett]

I use Flex Builder for making flash games - I don't use MXML, just create
Actionscript Projects.

 

I use Flash CS3 for what it's best at - laying stuff out, animation etc, and
do all my coding in FlexBuilder (I'm a big fan of Eclipse which FB is built
on). I make extensive use of the ability to provide labels for symbols and
then dynamically link to those symbols in actionscript (so for example, I
would create a gui screen entirely in CS3, but label the buttons and have my
code reference them via their labels,  and add listeners at runtime).

 

I also maintain an Flex Library of reuseable code, which builds to an .swc,
and have my game projects link the library. I like the way Flex Builder will
auto-rebuild my game silently when changing the swc, allow me to put
breakpoints into the lib etc.

 

I could go on and on about why FlexBuilder is better than CS3 for
actionscript, but in summary, I heartily recommend using a dedicated IDE for
any projects requiring a significant amount of code. Apparently fdt is a
nice IDE too - I chose FlexBuilder because I already knew Eclipse so well.

 

 

Ricky

 

 

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Joe Cleary
Sent: 15 December 2008 17:13
To: casual_games at igda.org
Subject: [casual_games] Question about Flex in web games.

 


Do people on this list know how many Flash game developers out there are
using Flex for making web games?  When working on a game, do you build the
entire project in Flash CS-or do you just do assets and layout in Flash CS
and then do the actual coding in Flex? Thanks so much!



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