Basic Flash Tile Engine

Overview:

The Basic Flash Tile Engine is a royalty-free package of classes that allows importing of a specially formatted XML file and a bitmap tileset, generates a scene, and updates the viewable screen by following an object. It is suitable for many tile-based game applications. The Basic Flash Tile Engine is written in Actionscript 3.0 and optimized for Flash Player 9 and above.

Included:

• All source code is included and commented.
• Sample “Side-Scroller” Flash Application using the Basic Flash Tile Engine.
• Sample “Top-Down” Flash Application using the Basic Flash Tile Engine.
• A Manual that gives further details on how to use the Basic Flash Tile Engine.
• A Photoshop template for the worldtileset bitmap.
• An XML template for the world data.

Limitations:

The Basic Flash Tile Engine displays a scene as a single layer. It is not suitable for complex scenes requiring a multitude of layers. While it is possible to instantiate multiple scenes to overcome this limitation, it is not an ideal solution.

License:

Royalty-Free! I want you to make games with the Basic Flash Tile Engine! The code is non-transferable.

What Can I Use This For?

• Flash games – either commercial or non-commercial.
• Other Flash Applications.
• There is no limit on the applications you can release with this code, nor is there any royalty to pay me for each release. All I ask is that this code is only used in applications in which you are involved.

What Can’t I Use This For?

• You can’t resell the code either by itself or as part of an uncompiled package.
• You can’t use this code to create a commercial middleware tool (e.g. Tile Editor) and then sell said tool.
• You can’t distribute the code in any way outside of a compiled application.

Hard Sell:

I understand if $10 is a lot of money to you. What I’m offering here is over 50 hours of investment I made in this engine. If this code saves you even an hour, consider it money well spent. If you’d prefer to go the free route, I’ve blogged about almost half of the work that went into this package. But I guarantee you that having the .as files will be far more convenient than a bunch of copy and pasting from the inter-tubes.

Support:

If you have any issues with the Basic Flash Tile Engine or have suggestions on how I can improve it, please email me via: support [at] refrag [dot] com.