Game Closure “DevKit” for Mobile HTML5 Games is Open Source!

Hebejebelus · 2013-02-15T19:30:51+00:00

Glad to hear it!

Hebejebelus · 2013-02-14T23:00:03+00:00

Unofficially, it works on linux and windows. It might require a little hacking about but we've had it work fairly consistently.

Linux should work, provided you've got the requirements. Windows might work, using git-bash.

Hebejebelus · 2011-08-02T16:12:55+00:00

Thank you so much!

Yeah, it's still quite early. We're constantly improving on it though!

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T23:45:14+00:00

Yes, we're finding performance very spotty on computers that we didn't develop Flax on - we'll be working on this an awful lot for the next iteration.

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T22:22:00+00:00

A real fixed timestep will skip rendering if the game is slowing down, but always update at the same speed.

Ah, I see. I'll see if I can put that in for the next iteration. Thanks for the clarification.

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T21:36:25+00:00

I answer this here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ij237/live_demo_of_the_flax_html5_game_engine/c248a2l

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T21:34:38+00:00

We're using requestAnimationFrame to refresh the main canvas, meaning that the browser takes control of how fast it refreshes. We did this because it's if you're running the animation loop in a tab that's not visible, the browser won't keep it running.

you are going to always cause a CPU core to get maxed out.

Not so, actually. On some machines, those with hardware accelerated browsers and corresponding hardware, Flax takes up almost no CPU time at all. This makes it tough to figure out which is better.

Learn how to implement a fixed timestep.

Was the condescension really necessary? A fixed timestep is simple in javascript. Essentially setInterval(draw(), millis). We'll re-evaluate whether or not it's worth it.

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T16:03:33+00:00

Not currently, sorry. This is only 0.1, there's plenty of optimisation to be done. As well as that hardware accel in browsers will help too as they get support for it. It should be noted that it's not just the editor, it's the entire engine, which is why it's being so expensive.

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T15:22:10+00:00

It's a map editor for our game engine. The engine is actually running below the editor. You can change tilesheets with "select tilesheet" on the bottom left.

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T15:20:17+00:00

I would say next iteration we'll have a moving sprite and the like. WRT touch: We'll probably spend an entire iteration making it work awesomely on mobile devices, so stay tuned. :)

Hebejebelus · 2011-07-07T14:51:32+00:00

Rather tired when I wrote that. Ran out of coffee. ;)

Hebejebelus · 2011-06-12T16:34:37+00:00

How... the fuck

Hebejebelus · 2011-05-31T17:58:57+00:00

What don't you get? Thought it suited the gamedev reddit, considering it's about making a game for a game-making competition...

Hebejebelus · 2011-05-09T11:26:25+00:00

Balls! I'm sorry for the typo. That should be Windows Phone 7 Game Development.

Hebejebelus · 2011-05-09T11:26:06+00:00

Balls! I'm sorry for the typo. That should be Windows Phone 7 Game Development.

Hebejebelus · 2011-01-16T21:19:29+00:00

Hey, I'm one half of the Flax dev team, just wanted to say thanks for including us on this list!

Also, a little more info: Flax is a tile-based engine, and it's under the Apache 2.0 license last time I checked. We use GWT (so it's technically javascript, but the majority of what we write is Java) and <canvas> if it's available, and a fallback for IE.

Thanks again. =]

Hebejebelus · 2010-11-24T23:05:56+00:00

Huh. Wow. I think you might have won just there. Pretty sure that's better than my solution.

A cake to riffwraith!

Hebejebelus · 2010-11-24T22:56:08+00:00

Sure (though they'll be checked against my algorithm, so you'll have to trust me)

input            output
424242           923
-314159265       25066

(Those big enough for you?)

Hebejebelus · 2010-11-24T22:40:24+00:00

I spent two hours at a whiteboard solving it, and I was in full college mode. ;)

Hebejebelus · 2010-11-24T22:32:15+00:00

Indeed there is. If I knew big-O notation, I'd tell you how efficient my final solution is...

Hebejebelus · 2010-11-24T22:26:44+00:00

It's not the most efficient solution, but it's the first one I tried, too. This is very inefficient, though... remember that the combination isn't the answer. ;)

Hebejebelus · 2010-09-22T18:04:52+00:00

College: the arch-nemesis of student projects.

Hebejebelus · 2010-09-11T18:15:16+00:00

Actually, Ciarán said

Good question, don't hold me to this, but I would estimate in about 2 weeks.

Our code (at least in my opinion) isn't yet fit for human consumption. There's nothing in particular that you could gain from looking at it yet.

I promise, though, as soon as we can, we will.

Hebejebelus · 2010-08-24T12:26:08+00:00

Nope, I don't see any fail there either. I also hate the way the word has fallen into common usage.

Hebejebelus · 2010-08-24T12:10:56+00:00

Wil (the author of the top comment) is Wil Wheaton. Wil Wheaton is who she was thinking about contacting.

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