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Useful guide for Flambe.

Flambe is a Haxe powered 2D game engine that makes cross-platform development actually fun. Spend less time dealing with platform-specific bugs, and more time building great games.

Installation

🔸 STEP 1: Program installation

Haxe 3	NodeJS 0.8 or higher
Restart computer after installation, continue to step 2.

🔸 STEP 2: Flambe installation and setup

Download and setup Flambe by running: npm install -g flambe flambe update On windows use powershell to run the commandlines. On Mac and Linux, you'll need to run both these commands as root using sudo. Also remember to pass the -g flag to npm install.

Thats it! You can use Flambe now!

🔸 STEP 3 Create, build and run!

🔹 Create a new project flambe new <directory>	🔹 Build the project flambe build html flash --debug You can use html, flash, ios,android or firefox as target.
🔹 Run the project flambe run html --debug After making a change, you can use this command to rebuild and refresh your web browser in a single step. For iOS and Android, you need the AIR SDK installed.	🔹 Start the project flambe serve to start a webserver, and open http://localhost:7000 in your web browser. The Flash or HTML5 build will run depending on what your browser best supports. The webserver also provides Live asset reloading.

> * Get the most out of your app Using Native Extensions > * Read this info to Setup for iOS

⛳ Ready to release?

When you're ready to distribute your game, do a release build by omitting the --debug param. Release builds are smaller and faster, but are slower to build and harder to debug.

Demo projects

Compiling and hacking the demos is a great way to learn by example.

For help on how to perform some common tasks, see other pages in this wiki.

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• Want Flambe next to your project? Flambe in custom folder.
• Trouble with installation? Check Troubleshooting.