Adam “ATOMIC” Saltsman has been on an epic coding frenzy this week, with constant twitter updates about all of the new features and bug fixes being added. Flixel really is a great little package - quick and easy to learn, producing amazingly retro results.

I took a little time to play with it a few months ago, putting together a pretty nifty little pong game in a matter of a couple of hours, all whilst learning about OOP and AS3 by taking apart the demo game (Mode). Flixel has change a lot since then, especially in the past couple of weeks.

You can download the latest version from Adam’s Github, as well as some example games that you can learn from. Some of the recent changes are designed to make it easier to port to other platforms, so in future you may find yourself developing a game in ‘vanilla’ flixel and then being able to quickly port it to iPhone, XNA, etc.

Definitely something to keep an eye on.

More unrestrained awesome from @ADAMATOMIC and @ChevyRay - “Flash Game Dojo is a community powered knowledge base for ActionScript beginners and experts”. Looks like a really nice and approachable site for learning game development with AS3 and Flixel, and with ChevyRay’s involvement it will probably include FlashPunk at a later date as well. ADAMATOMIC has pointed out that there FlashPunk is also well represented at the Flash Game Dojo (just look for the curly pink ‘f’).