game development and flash

• Boing Boing: Understanding Games: short interactive videos on game design

  a series of short animation/games that set out to explain how and why video games work — what they’re composed of, how they’re played, and how they’re designed.

  (tags: games design theory videogames)

• Theory of Fun PDF

  the pictures from Koster’s Theory of Fun book (basic premise: game mechanics should reflect tiny aspects life to allow real-world lessons; game designs should *not* support the designer’s personal truths, but allow participants to experiment and discover

  (tags: games book gamedesign pdf koster theory fun comics teaching)

• Games * Design * Art * Culture

  not often that I’ll bookmark and tag a blog, but this one’s the bomb for game development

  (tags: games blog gaming gamedev gameprogramming indie videogames)

• Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 1

  exploring rules, interactivity, representation and simulation in games using: a game! (sort of)

  (tags: education game gamedev ludology videogames rules gaming interactivity representation simulation)

• Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 2

  this game looks at the player’s motivation to continue playing instead of leaving a game and examines what makes a game fun – instead of frustrating – to play

  (tags: games tutorial seriousgames gamedevelopment gamedev videogames)

• Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 3

  this game explores the principles of learning in computer games

  (tags: games education design tutorial development gamedev gamedevelopment learning)

• OutsideOfSociety – OOS.MOXIECODE.COM

  a series of tutorials about tile based games in Flash

  (tags: flash tutorial games actionscript howto gamedevelopment todo)

• Tile based games

  more tutorials about making tile based games with Macromedia Flash.

  (tags: actionscript animation flash game gamedev gamedevelopment howto macromedia Scripts tutorial videogames)

• gotoAndPlay(): Flash games, tutorials and game development

  a good set of introductory (and more advanced) articles on the process of developing a flash game

  (tags: actionscript flash gamedev gamedevelopment tutorial howto toread)

• kirupa.com – Flash and ActionScript Tutorials

  Basic Drawing; Special Effects; Advanced / Actionscript; Server-Side Flash; Isometry; Game Development and Reviews

  (tags: flash actionscript tutorial HowTo examples scripting gamedevlopment)

• ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources

  well graded (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and targeted to micro learning (a hundred or so specific actions/scenarios) for actionscript learners

  (tags: actionscript flash resources tutorial)

• Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler: MTASC

  an open source, command line driven ActionScript 2 compiler – linux ready and primed to go

  (tags: actionscript compiler mtasc todo flash linux ubuntu)

• haXe

  an OO language capable of compiling flash swf files for flash players 6 to 9. Aimed at web apps (AJAX and the neko apache plugin)

  (tags: actionscript apache flash flex opensource webdev haxe neko)

• Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3

  compiling actionscript 3 (from the command line) – written for windows users, but translatable into a real operating system without too much pain.

  (tags: actionscript flash flex howto mxml tutorial as3 actionscript3 flex2)

• Open Source Flash

  think: sourceforge for flash

  (tags: flash opensource actionscript as3 code flex programming)

• How to structure and set up a Flash project without using the Flash IDE

  how to get into flash if you don’t happen to have a commercial operating system and/or the dollars for the Adobe product and a spare computer to run it on

  (tags: flash ActionScript opensource programming tutorial howto todo swfmill mtasc)

• swfmill swf2xml and xml2swf

  a command line XML to SWF to XML processor using SWFML, an XML dialect closely modeled after the SWF format. Used for generating asset libraries containing images (PNG and JPEG), fonts (TTF) or other SWF movies for use with MTASC or haXe compiled ActionSc

  (tags: actionscript actionscript3 gamedev haxe swfmill mtasc flash)

• SE|PY ASEditor

  a full featured ActionScript editor written in python for editing Actionscript, FlashComm asc, JSFL and XML files

  (tags: actionscript development flash mtasc)

• YouTube Flash tutorials

  19 flash tutorials on YouTube (sorry internal TAFE students, you’ll have to watch these ones at home)

  (tags: flash tutorials video howto)