[casual_games] Casual Tools?

[Hal Barwood]

Flash timeline:  it's there, but one rarely uses it.  For practical 
purposes, an entire game can ride in 1 frame.  There are wrinkles, of 
course, but timelines in Flash are mostly for embedded movie clips 
running inside a larger structure with traditional main loops, etc.

Lennard wrote:

> A quick Flash question since we are on the topic from a caveman C/C++ 

> guy.  My 15 year old is working on a game design and talking about 

> timelines and movie clips in Flash.  I've always assumed you could use 

> Action Script in a more traditional "main loop" kind of programming 

> model as well - is that correct?

> 

> Sorry for the hijack - dinner conversation was interesting tonight - 

> he's at that point where he kind of knows how to do things in a certain 

> way and is bull headed about accomplishing them that way.  Which is all 

> fine - I just want to make sure I'm not leading him down the garden path 

> by telling him that there are other ways to skin this cat.

> 

> Thanks in advance,

> 

> Lennard Feddersen

> CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.

> www.RustyAxe.com

> 

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> 

> J R wrote:

>> There is always room for improvement and growth. There are some good

>> engines out there depending on your needs and most of are rather

>> extensible.

>>

>> My personal favs of the crossplatform variety are Unity 3D, Torque

>> Game Builder, and Flash.

>>

>> Most types of titles can be put together in any of the packages.

>>

>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Audry Taylor <talshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>   

>>> Are there many game engines or middleware tools for the Casual sector?  Are

>>> they good or would you say this is an area that has room for growth?

>>>

>>> (I thought the subject might spark a little conversation!)

>>>

>>> -A

>>>

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