Re: Developing a game using Ming

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 4:42:19 pm Jochem Maas wrote: > Yasir Malik schreef: > >> What about FlashDevelop? I'm on the Papervision list, > >> and a lot of > >> people are raving abut that at the moment, and best of all > >> it's open > >> source. Could be a much better option than creating SWF > >> files from PHP. > > > > Thanks, Ashley, I'll check that out. I was fuzzy on how I could use PHP > > to generate a static file with event-based dynamic content. > > if you want to write a flash game you'll have to write lots of > actionscript, and debugging that will be impossible if your write it all as > simple [php] strings which your passing into Ming. > > your going to need Flash or some free Flash dev env (like FlashDevelop, as > Ashley suggested, assuming its upto the job) If you're trying to be cheap and/or Open Sourcy about it, have a look at OpenLazlo. It's an XML/JS framework, all open source, that compiles to SWF and plays in a normal Flash 9 browser plugin. I've only recently started looking into it, but it looks impressive. -- Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com