We are happy to release the next iteration with new features and improvements for FDT6. We count more than 170 changes since FDT5.6 now. You can use most of them in our Free Version or get an upgrade to the full version (starts at 14,75€ / month). See all release notes here. Thats the latest: [...]
Aiming to deliver the best product for the interactive community is an ongoing goal for us. Our process is simple: listen to customers, think about their needs and all the while looking ahead to see what is on the horizon. Our goal and process has lead us to bring FDT to a new level: FDT will [...]
Today, the FDT team has releases a small update – 5.6.2. Since the 5.6 release, we’ve received some great feedback from the community and have fixed numerous issues. With this release, we’ve fixed any issues that might prevent anyone from using Apache Flex with FDT. While we’re continuing to work on an even tighter integration with Apache Flex, this is the first step. Below is a video tutorial on how to download Apache Flex and get it working with FDT.
Proudly we announce our next free update for all FDT 5 customers: FDT 5.6.
During the development of this release we really went deep down to FDT’s roots to improve its performance. What we achieved is a massive performance optimization for nearly every situation and project, especially big gaming projects.
*note: This deal has expired. Stay tuned for our next deal. With the release of FDT 5.5 we also introduced a new payment model – subscriptions. To welcome this new opportunity, we want to give a free month of FDT Max to all of you. With subscription payments you are much more flexible in setting [...]
[Update:] The Download of FDT 5.5 Beta is currently not available since we’re working on the public release. Stay tuned.
We’re close to the final release of FDT 5.5. We got a lot of feedback from you and tried to bring as much as possible into the release. So, download the second beta with full FDT 5 Max functionality and let us know what you think.
If you want to have a look at the fixes in the 5.5 beta 2 visit our Jira.
Download
To download the FDT 5.5 Beta just go to our special code site and enter the special code FDT55BETA. An E-Mail with a beta license key (valid until May 8th) and the download links will be send to you right after registration.
Issuetracker
If you find any bugs or other issues during the beta test please let us know in the Jira.
We wish you a lot of fun testing the new version and are excited to hear your feedback.
Happy coding!
Both Nico and Michael have a special place in the hearts of the FDT team. Both carried the torch of Product Owner and continue to use FDT in their teams and for personal work. Michael uses FDT to power his team while working in cutting edge 3D games, and Nico uses FDT when working with Haxe. If you decide to attend beyond tellerrand, say hi and if you’re lucky, you’ll also get a peek of them using FDT 5.5.
We are proud to sponsor Play 12 this year again. By now it’s our 10th sponsorship and we can definitely say that it is one of our most favorite conferences. We will have a small booth and Philipp from the FDT Team and some guys from the agencies will be there to show you the latest FDT improvements of the 5.5 Beta. So come by our booth and say hello to Philipp.
As a little goody we want to offer you a very nice deal: If you buy FDT 5 Max now you will get a free Play 12 conference ticket worth 349€. To get the ticket just drop us a line after purchasing and we will let you know how to get to the conference.
We are proud to announce our next great and big update for FDT 5. Right now it’s a beta version but the final release is planned very soon. It will be a free update for all FDT 5 customers. We added some great new features to this “major minor release” and we’re sure you’ll like them. The main feature we integrated is the new community feature “SWF Bridge”. It allows you to write your own FDT Plug-Ins in ActionScript. Nearly everything is possible, so check out Alan’s blogpost and get started with your first official FDT Plug-In. But there is a lot more in it:
New Features
Improvements
Known issues can be found in our Jira.
New License Management
We also added a complete new license management to support a highly requested new licensing model: subscriptions. With the new license management FDT will verify the key with a license server on our side. A blogpost with detailed information will be released a few days before the final release.
Download
Update: FDT 5.5 is about to be released; we have disabled the download of the beta to avoid confusion. Stay tunned everyone!
To download the FDT 5.5 Beta just go to our special code site and enter the special code FDT55BETA. An E-Mail with a beta license key (valid until May 8th) and the download links will be send to you right after registration.
Issuetracker
If you find any bugs or other issues during the beta test please let us know in the Jira.
We wish you a lot of fun testing the new version and are excited to hear your feedback.
Happy coding!
At the core FDT has always been about comfort, customization and community. With FDT 5.5, the team delivers a new feature that is a powerful combination of all 3 – SWFBridge.
Update: Check out the SWFBridge microsite.
FDT’s SWFBridge is a platform that allows developers to use Actionscript & Flex to create new features and extend existing ones. Here are a few examples of what you can build using AS & Flex:
The FDT team strongly believes in transparency, sharing and open source. With these principals in mind, we have open sourced the API of the plugin as well as provided a few demos and examples. We encourage the community to create and share what they build as well as provide feedback on how we can make it better.
Last week, Adobe announced Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming and the news was received with mixed reviews by the community. This mixed reaction concerns us because a healthy Flash ecosystem is very important to the FDT team. We would like to state how we feel about this announcement with the hope that our opinion will help strengthen the Flash community.
The FDT team finds it reassuring whenever Adobe reaffirms it’s commitment to the Flash Platform and the announcement of Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming does just that. For quite some time, we all have known that Flash is a great platform for creating successful games; now Adobe is publicly supporting this opinion by making it part of their business model.
Whenever a company makes a business stake in a market, it then automatically has a vested interest in the success of that market. For example, FDT makes tools for interactive developers but our success does not solely rely on us delivering a quality product for customers to purchase. Because the product we make is part of a larger ecosystem (Flash), we automatically have a vested interest in the success of that Platform – even though making it successful is not our chief responsibility.
We give away ‘FDT Free’ at no charge because we want every Flash developer to have access to a quality Flash IDE; however, we still want to be able to improve both FDT Free and FDT Max. We are a team who has made FDT a part of our livelihood. This means we have to make difficult decisions when balancing between making FDT accessible to everyone and allowing us to come back to work each morning. No doubt, Adobe is in the same position and this is why moves such as Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming make sense. Adobe wants to continue to be able to support the Flash Platform by having dedicated engineers work on it – engineers who have staked their livelihood on coming to work every day to make Flash better.
Adobe has put their money where their mouth is and has placed a very real and powerful stamp of approval on Flash gaming. Publishers will see this and any ambiguity regarding Flash will melt away. When it comes time for a team to decide if their new game will be built using Flash, there will be no doubt that it can be successful – because Adobe has already stated that it can.
We hope our point of view strikes a chord with some community members. The FDT team is looking forward to what lies ahead for Flash gaming and what popular and successful games will come from it.