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Actionscript and mxmlc

Erik on Sep 19th 2008

I think that flash is a fantastic platform for games, but the tools are expensive. I have been curious about alternatives to Flash Studio for a while, and I decided to investigate. The flash development environment that I was looking for:

  • Would be free.
  • Would work on OS X, Windows, and if I was lucky, Linux.
  • Would not involve working in Flex with MXML.
  • Would produce bytecode for the faster actionscript virtual machine 2 (AVM2).
  • Would allow embedding assets such as images and sound directly into the SWF file.
  • Would allow the use of existing flash libraries such as PaperVision3d and Box2dFlash.

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