I have been playing with Flashpunk and Flixel for a few weeks. They look equally good frameworks, but so far I don’t feel comfortable to use them in the compo, simply because they’re too powerful. To me, just a few week wasn’t simply enough to get used to it and I’m afraid of using something that I don’t fully understand (call me a control freak). So I ended up with writing my own, very minimal codebase. It’s really nothing more than an “ActionScript Cheatsheet”, which is the name I gave to it. I posted the code here: https://github.com/euske/ascs

Other than this, I’ll mainly use a Linux environment for writing and compiling. I use Emacs and GNU make, as well as Python. These tools will be handy when you want to cook up something quick and dirty. But I also plan to use Paint and sfxr on Windows. The testing will also be done on Windows environment. I still need some sort of simplistic music editor, but that’s all I can say for now.