One month after release
Welcome to the fresh Flax Facts! It’s our blog posts series about Flax development. Today we will go through the latest events and news after recent 1.0 version release. Fasten your seat belts and let’s take off!
Flax Facts
Firstly, we should go over a simple summary of what we achieved during last weeks since the release. Here are some numbers:
- 20k people visited Flax Website
- 80k pageviews of Flax Docs
- 25k pageviews of Flax Forum (150 posts)
- 3k Flax Users! ❤️ (from 119 countries)
- 53 PRs merged into engine and docs
- 770 people on our Discord channel
Those values come from just one month after Flax officially took off with the 1.0 version. Meanwhile, we’ve started working on Editor for Linux, networking for games, and more cool features. The development team got empowered by many contributors from the community. Thanks for all your help and feedback! Seeing people using Flax is the best thing that could happen!
Tutorials & Reviews
Now, I’d like to mention some tutorials that are starting to appear about Flax. The project is in the early stage after release but seeing new and fresh content is very promising. Here are a few samples of videos as a starter:
Development and Contributors
It looks like many people liked that we’ve released the full source code of the Flax on Github. The project got almost 1.4k stars and is very active in terms of development. It’s also a place to report issues or discuss ideas.
We’ve also updated Flax Roadmap to reflect your requests and needs. Now, it contains a separate High-prio TODO list with tasks that we plan to tackle very quickly (1-3 months) followed by the normal TODO list. It’s a very good place to see what features we are currently working on and to track the progress (join our Discord to see development updates daily as we post frequently✨). Also, contributors can feel free to pick tasks for PRs to work on. Diversity of topics to play with is very noticeable.
What’s next?
Releasing Flax 1.0 was a huge relief to finally let people start using it. Now, seeing so much new and great content being made is just awesome (come and see #showcase channel on our Discord).
We plan to keep hard working on Flax and release major updates every 2-3 months with monthly bugfix updates.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them on forum or directly on Discord. Also, we plan to make Live Q&A with devs soon (eg. Flax codebase overview and engine usage tips & tricks). See you soon, bye! 🦝
9 Comments
Frank · January 21, 2021 at 6:03 PM
Fast engine for C # developers!
Mohithraajan · January 29, 2021 at 4:32 AM
Please add water system because thats the one i am always looking
Mohithraajan · January 29, 2021 at 4:33 AM
Also add video tutorials in youtube
JJ · January 30, 2021 at 10:26 AM
Is there any information about making 2d games into Flax? Is it possible or will be support in future releases? I think possibility to make 2D games is also important part of modern game engines. Regards!
Wojciech Figat · January 31, 2021 at 8:22 PM
Flax supports basic 2d with some tools but it’s not our main direction right now. Feel free to checkout roadmap for 2d features area: https://trello.com/b/NQjLXRCP/flax-roadmap
cai · February 2, 2021 at 1:54 PM
can not build from source ,lack of FlaxEngine module
Wojciech Figat · February 3, 2021 at 6:27 PM
In case of problems ask on forum: https://forum.flaxengine.com/
Rodrigo · February 24, 2021 at 10:54 AM
Guys, I have installed Flax and it is seems amazing. There is only one little problem. All of my usb ports stopped working after the installation of the program. Also my bluetooth stopped connecting to my devices. Just take a look at it and if there is something that I have to do, let me know.
storm36969 · November 27, 2021 at 8:41 PM
How hard would it be to implement wall running using flax?