Can I use Adobe Flex for web animations and games?

[jeremie]

I was looking to develop a flash game because I think it would be easier than using javascript only.
Would Flex do a good job considering it's free?Looking at adobe's site it seems perfectly fine.

 

[murraybiscuit]

afaik:
flex builder is not free. the flex sdk is. flashdevelop is free (windows only)
flex builder doesn't do vector layout or timeline-based animation.
you would still need flash ide to create the sprites and do some of the animation (depending on the complexity).
these could then be linked into the mxml via swc/swf.
flex is strong at mxml (ria widgets) and as3 code.
if you wanted to port it to air, you could do that but then you'd need an air wrapper if you wanted to package it to be self-executable.
i'm not a big fan of the air runtime. i prefer standalone executable code. but the benefit of using flex would that it could be compiled to swf for web use as well.

 

[DarkStreet]

I was looking to develop a flash game because I think it would be easier than using javascript only.
Would Flex do a good job considering it's free?Looking at adobe's site it seems perfectly fine.

You'll find it much easier developing it in Flash.

 

[guest2013-1]

You'll find it much easier developing it in Flash.

Or he could try doing it in jQuery alone, people have done awesome stuff without the need for 3rd party plugins like Flash

 

[DarkStreet]

Or he could try doing it in jQuery alone, people have done awesome stuff without the need for 3rd party plugins like Flash

Well his initial post indicates he would like to explore the world of Flash. A client-side scripting engine like JavaScript will simply never compare to the features available to you through Flash. As the Flash plugin is available on around 99% of internet-enabled desktops, I doubt he'll have a problem, especially since anybody who is in the habit of playing games online would probably have the Flash plugin installed.

I'd stick to using jQuery for web development projects.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

What about Silverlight?

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