Organizing the assets in your game

Your game will include many assets, such as images, audio, fonts, maps, and game data.

As with Flutter, Flame supports the asynchronous loading of assets and caching. However, it also builds on top of that functionality to add features that are useful for images and audio, to help use and manage those assets effectively. For example, if you have a sprite sheet containing many frames of animation, you can load them and split them into their individual sprites very easily. This is covered, in more depth, in Chapter 4, Drawing and Animating Graphics.

All of your assets go under the assets folder in Flutter. I recommend the following folder structure to keep everything well organized:

assets

--- audio

------ music

--------- music_menu.mp3

------ sounds

--------- sound_shoot.mp3

--- images

------ sprites

--------- sprite_player.png

--------- sprite_enemy.png

--- fonts

------ font_highscore.ttf

--- maps

-...