TimelineFX: Particle Generator for Explosions and other 2D effects

After working on some explosions, I could only find fairly lame solutions and my skills as an explosion artist were no good. The best (free) one I found was at Phaedy, its somewhat customizable, and it works pretty well for simple explosions. But then I came across this fairly interesting effect engine by Pete Rigby that runs on Windows and Mac, and it looks pretty robust — you can add hundreds of customizable effects to suit your gaming needs. Anyways, I’m definitely going to purchase this, it goes for about $30 (or 19 Pounds) and you can try the demo it if you like, but the demo doesn’t allow you to export the creations.

Anyways the author even posts up tutorials, seems helpful, I’m going to give this a whirl.

UPDATE: I purchased the copy, and even though I had some problems, I was able to contact the developer (Pete) directly and he was rather quick about making adjustable updates. Anyways I highly recommend this product, playing around with this has slowed down my own development!