Flame Game Development

Expert guidelines for building 2D games with Flutter and the Flame engine.

Quick Start

When starting a new Flame game or reviewing code:

1. Game Class: Extend FlameGame with appropriate mixins (HasCollisionDetection, HasKeyboardHandlerComponents)
2. Components: Build entities with SpriteComponent, PositionComponent, or SpriteAnimationComponent
3. Game Loop: Implement update(double dt) for logic and render(Canvas canvas) for drawing
4. Collision: Add CollisionCallbacks mixin and define hitboxes (CircleHitbox, RectangleHitbox)
5. Input: Handle keyboard with KeyboardHandler, touch with TapCallbacks, joystick with JoystickComponent

Project Setup