I have an idea cooking, now in private beta, called Go. I will be posting shortly with some background information on what led me to this approach, but right away let me share the concept and architecture with you.

• Go is a lightweight – around 4k – portable set of base classes for creating your own AS3 animation tools.

• Go provides an agile, purposeful architecture that is highly extensible.

• Go is not a does-it-all Kit (a la Fuse), but such a kit can be built using Go. If Fuse was a vending machine, this is more like a knife and a pan and a way to cook for yourself.
  

• Go does not require special syntax to use. You can instead, design your own.

• Go's engine is efficient, capable of processing a jaw-dropping 10-20,000 individual animations on a typical system. (Disclaimer: it remains to be seen how Go will perform in a real-world setting.)
  

• Go is designed to encourage developers to use tweening, physics and 3D together.

• Go is inspired by the popular Cairngorm framework in its approach. That tiny set of classes does so much, truly useful without dictating your code.

Go is not a kit solution like Fuse or Tweener, it is an architecture and a set of base classes that in fact do nothing by themselves. If you're a solid AS3 coder and this project fits your interests, feel free to email me directly to apply for the private beta (some very light screening will follow; if you don't get in now don't worry, we'll be opening the beta up very soon).

Go architecture (subject to change)

go_architecture.pdf

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