[FAQ] Making Games. READ FIRST! page 8

i use swf quicker can i upload games from that to kongregate?

You can upload any .swf file that you created yourself. Using other people’s works is likely to get you banned, as you’d be making money off of a product that didn’t belong to you. Essentially stealing.

Thank you. I have been looking for ages for a free flash creation program that has actionscript built in.

Now to learn it… This may take some time…

There are absolutely no tutorials for a newbie for FlashDevelop… Since it runs 100% on actionscript i thought a tutorial on that would do, but it references things such as the movie_clip that i have no way of makeing or puting in as a symbol on it.

I hope i got the talk right… Anyway, a link to a tutorial would be appriciated.

If Any Body needs some Help leave me a Shout

If you are looking for an alternative to CSx then just use Flex and there are plenty of tutorials on that. Flex Builder is worth the purchase too.

It seems that Your link to flash CS3 actually goes to flash CS4. Do You know where to find CS3? Is it out of stock or something?

CS4 is the newest version of CS3.

i know nothing at all about game design (flash) i need help because i want it as a career help me plz!

I know nothing about programming,actionscript,and everything else.I really want to start making games….but I need something free..please help!

Originally posted by limeyman012:

i know nothing at all about game design (flash) i need help because i want it as a career help me plz!

Originally posted by hiker392:

I know nothing about programming,actionscript,and everything else.I really want to start making games….but I need something free..please help!

Have you actually read the first post?

The program “Flash Develop” is free and uses asctionscript 3.0. it just doesn’t have any thing to do with animations and art like flash does.

edit: oh wait never mind someone already said that. :)

yay, i already had adobie flash and never knew it! :D

gahhhh making games on flash is so hard :( all that coding etc. i dont think i’ll get the hang of it anytime soon
i learnt some stuff from the shootutorials but after i made my first game i gave up. TT-TT
props to you programmers out there making those awesome games.

Guys umm… Im very new to game programming and I was thinking of starting with some flash game, but it seems a good thing I didnt yet cause clearly Ive overlooked one point. Just to make this clear: C++ is the leading programming language used in making games, and yet it cant be used for flash game programming?

c++ is used for native games. (so, ones you download and install, or ones you play on your xbox or whatever)

actionscript is used for flash games, because c++ doesn’t compile to a swf (as far as i know).
you need a swf to run on the flash virtual machine.

it’s a lot like how you use javascript for code you want to run in a web browser, since c++ won’t work for that.

the main reason for using a vm instead of running machine code is that you can use the same executable on any hardware/os, and it’s not really secure to allow arbitrary c++ code to run on your machine. flash is more restricted in what it can do to your computer.

You can run C or C++(I forget which one, or if so, both) code in a swf, however. Adobe is still testing Alchemy, a C/C++ library compiler that allows C/C++ code to run inside of a Flash Virtual Machine. An example of this is Doom and Doom 2 here on Kongregate.

I started recently with Foundation Game Design with Flash which I bought off Amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Game-Design-Flash-Foundations/dp/1430218215/ref=pd_cp_b_1)

So far I’m enjoying every page of it.

well, this tuff helps a bit. But here’s a question… I ran out of my 30-day free trial on Flash. I can’t pay $700 for the stuff, but I still want to make games… Is there any other programming I can use? PLEASE TELL MEH!

I felt it would be better to post here then make a thread, as it’s about actionscript.

Where do I learn this? Is it at adobe’s website or something?

Ive tryed the adobe flash(the one I found is the most recent a.k.a. 10.1(I think))and then thaught what will happen when the trial will expire and so went to check flashdevelop but I have a question:
In adobe flash the first thing that pops up is a place to draw graphics but in flashdevelop there isnt that draw tool so how to make games(without the graphics)

Import them

Hey I was wondring if any body could help mr with makin a game ???

I’ve got my game but did not understand what to put for the game file and mine has one picture only..