And the tool’s not half bad now. At this point it’s still very crude, but I am only building enough to finish my immediate project, then over time I will refine it more and expand features. (That’s also a disclaimer that the code is “production” code–ie, quite messy. Ah, there again with making messes.)

All the tile and layer manipulation stuff is in place, and I can load and save maps and run around. Next comes the entity system, which actually doesn’t exist in the core engine yet. Looks like that’s the next thing to implement, but it also means introducing some gameplay stuff, like triggers!

Oh I can’t wait to have some triggers to set up some simple but flexible game logic. Best of all, they’re easy to use and require no extra code. It’ll all be in the data. One of my old games, Little Gods, used a trigger system like this to very nice effect. But I think this version is actually much more powerful.

Once things slow down (ie, after this is out the door in less than a month), I plan to write up some info about how I did some of the Flex stuff, plus whatever you, my dear readers, want to know. Don’t be shy!

So far this blog is mostly about me whining at Flex, but that’s not the primary purpose!