Tools:Development Tools

From YoYoGames Wiki

• Adobe Game Suite The Adobe Games Suite is a Flash 8 component being developed to help speed up game development - we believe that the best games in the world today have a strong story line and world class graphics. The Adobe Game Suite takes the bite of programming and lets you focus on story and graphics.

• Flasm Flasm is a command line assembler/disassembler for SWF bytecode. It is useful to optimize a flash movie on a low level to get the last bit of performance out of it.

• mdm Zinc Zinc is a commercial tool to modify and extend a Flash movie with additional functionality to make use of system operations that are normally limited by Flash's sandbox security model or to publish special Flash projectors, for example with transparency or DirectX screen support.

• SWFMill SWFMill is a tool to create SWF files from XML files that contain the structure and assets of your Flash movie. This makes it possible to be able to completely skip the Flash IDE in a Flash development process. You simply define the frames and library assets in the XML file and SWFMill will generate the SWF file for you, ready to inject your ActionScript with MTASC later.

• RegExBuddy Great tool to create and learn Regular Expressions. Trial version can be found here. (Shareware)