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Welcome to the flixel wiki! Here you can find tutorials, tips, and even source to full games. If you have written a tutorial on the forums or your blog, please consider taking the time to add it here!

Resources

• Official Documentation
  Official ASDocs for the flixel framework.
• Release Notes
  Stay up to date with flixel changes.
• Bug Tracking
  Experiencing a bug, or want to help wipe them out?
• Feature Requests
  Here is where to post about features you would like to see in upcoming flixel versions.
• Help Forum
  Still having problems? Ask the experienced users.
• Adobe Resources
  Adobe provides lots of documentation on ActionScript 3, and sometimes your problems might be related to ActionScript itself. Definitely check-out the “Programming ActionScript 3.0” manual.
• Flixel badges
  Little logos for your website or game title screens or whatever!
• Useful Software
  A collection of pixel, tilemap, and audio editing software.
• Flash Game Dojo
  A site community-powered knowledge base for actionscript and game dev in general.

TOURS & INTRODUCTIONS

Articles that explore the most basic fundamentals of the creation of Flash games, and flixel games in particular.

• What is Flixel?
• Create a Flash platform game with Flixel and Adobe Flex
• Getting Started with ActionScript + Flixel
• ActionScript Fundamentals (you can skip the MXMLC part!)
• Flixel 2.0 Tutorial
• How Colors Work in ActionScript
• Fall 2009 Workshop – Part 1 (basic organization + code tour)
• Flixel Organization Overview (condensed from the workshop)

BEGINNER TUTORIALS

Very basic tutorials that explore the fundamentals of creating a functional flixel game.

• Hello, World! : Flex Builder 3.0, OSX | Flash Develop | Flex SDK/mxmlc (command line compiler)
• Flixel Cheat Sheet 1: The Basics
• Fall 2009 Workshop – Part 2 (changing mode, various design topics)
• Flixel Basic Game Tutorial
• Making a platform game with Flex and Flixel (with moving platforms)
• Using Xcode 3.2 with Flixel 2.+
• Conquer the Universe With AS3 and the Flixel Game Engine: Part 1 (screencast)
• Flixel 2 Tutorial on CreativeApplications.Net
• The Absolute Ultra Beginners Guide on Flixel with Flash Develop
• The Noob Tutorials series by BliipStudio

NOTE: The following tutorials are for slightly older versions of flixel and probably need to be updated when they’re ported:

• Hello, World! (Flash Develop)
• Compiling the ‘mode’ game (Flex Builder)
• Compiling the ‘mode’ game (FlashDevelop)
• Compiling the ‘mode’ game (MXMLC)
• Compiling the ‘mode’ game (MXMLC + make)

INTERMEDIATE TUTORIALS

More advanced tutorials involving levels, enemies, and other classic game objects.

• Flixel Cheat Sheet 2: Advanced Flixel Fu
• Generating a Basic Template With flx.py

NOTE: Bored? Port and update a tutorial for the wiki!

• Adding a Jetpack to the demo game
• Modifying FlxBlock to display specific tiles
• Loading a level layout based on an image
• Adding multiple, configurable keys
• Making levels in Mappy
• Adding a local save feature and how to use it

ADVANCED TUTORIALS

• How to make multiple rooms in one PlayState

TIP & TRICKS

Miscellaneous snippets of code that are designed to solve one problem or another.

• MochiServices integration example
• What version am I running?
• Performance Tricks
• Hover buttons
• Make a game with multiple languages
• Animated cursor
• Improved, ready-to-use data structures (documentation included in download)
• Porting Guide for v1.5x to v2.0

NOTE: Hosted on the forums.

• Multi-rowed spritesheets (pre version 1.34)
• Multi-rowed tilemap sheets (pre version 1.36)
• AS3 sfxr
• Making slopes
• Avoid having to click on the game to give focus
• Automatic Flixel updates (windows)
• FlxUtils (collision debugging, colored boxes and gradient backgrounds)
• Ropes/Grappling hooks (not full source, but a very good starting point)
• Exact time-based distance calculation
• Fast pixel precise collision detection
• Syntax highlighting for Xcode
• Template document for Xcode
• FLEX SDK Download
• Pathfinding
• Iso and Hex tiles
• Pixel perfect overlap
• State loading screen
• Dialog class
• Moving TileBlocks
• Loading external images for use with FlxSprites

GAMES ON GITHUB

These are complete, open-source game projects that are available for forking and downloading here on github.

• Hello, World! by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• Flx Invaders by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• FlxTeroids by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• Mode by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• FlxCollisions by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• FlxBloom by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• FlxBlur by Adam Atomic (View code | Play)
• Refuge by noonat (View code | Play)
• Flixel Primer by Pixelate (View code | Tutorial)
• Eden Island by cai (View code | Play)

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