richardlord / Ash

h1. Ash: An entity framework for Actionscript games

Ash is an Actionscript 3 entity framework for game development

h3. Source Code

• "Ash":http://github.com/richardlord/Ash

h3. Examples

• "Asteroids":http://github.com/richardlord/Asteroids

h3. Documentation

There is no formal documentation as yet, but much of the source code contains as-doc comments.

I've also written a few blog posts explaining how Ash works.

• "Ash - a new entity framework for Actionscript games.":http://www.richardlord.net/blog/ecs/introducing-ash.html
• "What is an entity framework for game development.":http://www.richardlord.net/blog/ecs/what-is-an-entity-framework.html
• "Why use an entity framework for game development.":http://www.richardlord.net/blog/ecs/why-use-an-entity-framework.html

h3. Join the discussion

There is a (new) "Google group for discussing Ash":https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/ash-framework , how to use it and how to make it better. Everyone who uses Ash or is interested in using Ash is welcome.

h3. Developers

• "Richard Lord":http://www.richardlord.net/ ** "Richard on Twitter":http://twitter.com/Richard_Lord ** "Richard on Github":http://github.com/richardlord

h3. Thank you

• Tom Davies, for "Ember":https://github.com/tdavies/Ember and "Ember2":https://github.com/tdavies/Ember2 and for the many discussions we've had about entity systems.
• Alec McEachran, for "Xember":https://github.com/alecmce/xember and the discussions we've had about entity systems, particularly at "try{harder}":http://www.tryharder.org.uk/

h2. License

Ash - an entity framework for Actionscript games ................................................

Author: Richard Lord Copyright (c) Richard Lord 2011-2012 http://www.richardlord.net

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