What is Flax?

Flax is a game develop tool based on Flash Professional (Later we called it Flash), which is a well-known multimedia creation platform. For the past few years, Flash has even become a powerful game develop tool.

Flax is just to use the power of the Flash to create animation/UI/scene/font etc. Convert a created SWF to texture to be used by other game develop platform, such as PIXI.js and Cocos2d-js.

Video

http://v.qq.com/page/d/a/4/d0148a7pma4.html

Pros

1. For Mac and Windows both
2. Based on powerful Flash, what you see in flash is what you get in game
3. Easy to use and extendable
4. It’s free

Key Features

1. Key frame animation create
2. Skeletal animation create
3. UI edit
4. Scene edit
5. Font create
6. Anchor edit
7. Physic edit

Who need Flax

If you or your team member especially the artist are familiar with the Flash, you should enjoy it. If you were a Flash game developer, Flax will make you feel so familiar to develop games with other engines like PIXI.JS/Cocos2d etc.

Examples(based on cocos2d-js)

https://github.com/longyangxi/Flax-js-examples

Online Demo(based on cocos2d-js)

http://longames.com/h5/example/

Home

http://flax.longames.com

CLI tool -- iflax (need node.js)

1. install: npm install iflax -g
2. create new project: iflax create simpleGame
3. publish the project: iflax publish -p <web/ios/android/fb/wechat> -m <true/false>