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Make 2D Games in FlashPunk!

FlashPunk is a free ActionScript library designed for developing 2D Flash games. Its goal is to provide you with a fast, clean framework for prototyping and developing games; this means most of the dirty work -- reliable framerate, sprite rendering/animation, player input, and collision detection (to name a few) -- has been covered with a set of base classes and functions for your ease of use. This gives you more time and energy to concentrate on the design and testing of your game.

It's important to note that FlashPunk is targeted towards the development of games with 2D raster/bitmap graphics, as opposed to vector graphics. It can manage thousands of animated bitmap sprites on-screen at a time without slowing, a lot faster than Flash normally could, because it operates under the assumption that your game primarily uses bitmapped graphics.

FlashPunk is not designed for use in the Adobe Flash IDE, you'll be working with an alternate coding environment. I personally use (and have come to love) FlashDevelop, which is both free and open source.


Learn more about FlashDevelop and its alternatives.


Download FlashPunk and start making games!


FlashPunk Not For You?

Try out the flixel library!

Developed by Adam Saltsman, Flixel was the main inspiration for FlashPunk, and serves as a great alternative for 2D Flash game development. Check out the flixel website for more information!