In Make Flash Games for Free, I went over the steps necessary to use FlashDevelop to compile .swfs using the Flex Command Line Compiler and the productivity boosting FlashDevelop IDE. That’s all we need to know if we’re building a code only game. Usually, however, art and sound is just as important to the game [...]

You followed the steps in Makes Flash Games for Free and you’re already working on your next game masterpiece. Unfortunately, sometimes you write code that the Flash Player doesn’t like, and unless you’ve set up your project to test with the external player, this could mean you spend the next 10 minutes trying to convince [...]

Several years ago when I first got started in Flash game development (2003 if you’re counting), Actionscript 2.0 was the new kid on the block, appearing along side the cutting edge Flash Player 7 and the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 IDE. If you wanted to build a Flash game, that was pretty much your only [...]