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hello I am new and I would like to make a flash game give me some tips

here are some of my drawings



Thanks for your tips

You have a cute art style. My advice is stay the hell away from flash. It's a dead platform. I would advise you try either ren'py or unity.

nice to meet ya. i can't help you much on the flash game thing, but uh, hey, whatever you end up doing, just try hard long enough and you'll do it right.

also, nice art.

evildumdum Wrote:You have a cute art style. My advice is stay the hell away from flash. It's a dead platform. I would advise you try either ren'py or unity.

Thanks

mrblah Wrote:nice to meet ya. i can't help you much on the flash game thing, but uh, hey, whatever you end up doing, just try hard long enough and you'll do it right.

also, nice art.

Thanks

Welcome, lovin the art style. Afraid i can't offer much on the development aspect as i am still new to it.
I guess find whatever program works for you and what type of game you want to develop, i hear good things about unity
but you'll have to know how to code. Best of luck

Trninja2 Wrote:Welcome, lovin the art style. Afraid i can't offer much on the development aspect as i am still new to it.
I guess find whatever program works for you and what type of game you want to develop, i hear good things about unity
but you'll have to know how to code. Best of luck

ok thanks

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hi

Besides being suicidal, Flash is expensive, if you aim to acquire it legitimately. Stencyl is free and good if you aren't familiar with programming. Stencyl does output an SWF file though. If you're not afraid of programming, there's FlashDevelop, which will allow you to make SWF files for free, but it's all coding. At one time, there was the Flixel library, which was designed to make blit engine games in SWF, but I don't know what's become of it.

GameMaker is not free, but cheaper than Flash and has "visual coding" like Stencyl (actually, I'm pretty sure Stencyl is based on GameMaker) There's RPG Maker, if you specifically want to make a JRPG with balloon headed pixel people, it's got a lot of content ready to use. There are various visual novel programs out there, like Renpy, but ugh, visual novels...

Unity is (mostly) free and comes with shitloads of stuff you can download, but some people find it overwhelming. Unity also has the PlayMaker add-on which supposedly allows you to make Unity games with "visual coding" like Stencyl and GameMaker, but I've never tried it. In general, Unity is set up to focus more on design and less on coding, but even though I'm more of an artist than a coder, this approach gets on my nerves.

Hey there. I'm new too. I know everyone says flash is just about dead, and it might be true, but I think if you wanna churn out a game real quick and just get it out there, it might be worth doing. You may not be able to work on it any longer once support for flash stops, but the swf will still be playable.

The flash program and swf format will still exist, the fear is that the plug-in which allows browsers to play swf will no longer be supported. Supposedly, you'll still be able to play flash games in swf emulators or something, but at that point, why bother using Flash?

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hi

Hi XD

AcetheSuperVillain Wrote:Besides being suicidal, Flash is expensive, if you aim to acquire it legitimately. Stencyl is free and good if you aren't familiar with programming. Stencyl does output an SWF file though. If you're not afraid of programming, there's FlashDevelop, which will allow you to make SWF files for free, but it's all coding. At one time, there was the Flixel library, which was designed to make blit engine games in SWF, but I don't know what's become of it.

GameMaker is not free, but cheaper than Flash and has "visual coding" like Stencyl (actually, I'm pretty sure Stencyl is based on GameMaker) There's RPG Maker, if you specifically want to make a JRPG with balloon headed pixel people, it's got a lot of content ready to use. There are various visual novel programs out there, like Renpy, but ugh, visual novels...

Unity is (mostly) free and comes with shitloads of stuff you can download, but some people find it overwhelming. Unity also has the PlayMaker add-on which supposedly allows you to make Unity games with "visual coding" like Stencyl and GameMaker, but I've never tried it. In general, Unity is set up to focus more on design and less on coding, but even though I'm more of an artist than a coder, this approach gets on my nerves.

Thanks for the tip bro I'll try it on stencyl XD

iBalls Wrote:Hey there. I'm new too. I know everyone says flash is just about dead, and it might be true, but I think if you wanna churn out a game real quick and just get it out there, it might be worth doing. You may not be able to work on it any longer once support for flash stops, but the swf will still be playable.

Thanks maybe you're right I'll try XD

AcetheSuperVillain Wrote:The flash program and swf format will still exist, the fear is that the plug-in which allows browsers to play swf will no longer be supported. Supposedly, you'll still be able to play flash games in swf emulators or something, but at that point, why bother using Flash?

Well it's true I have some flash games on pc I'll try it in flash thanks XD

Maratiny, please don't post multiple times in a row. By using the quote function and copying the text over, you can combine your posts into a single one.

Your art is super cute XD Keep up the good work!

Zeus Kabob Wrote:Maratiny, please don't post multiple times in a row. By using the quote function and copying the text over, you can combine your posts into a single one.

ok sorry

Blue_Chill Wrote:Your art is super cute XD Keep up the good work!

Thank XD the game is going to have my art

Nice art style! You could make a killing doing artwork for developers

Looks good
Welcome to this community! Looking forward to seeing more from you c: good luck with development