Resources

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Contents 1 Flash Tutorial Websites 2 ActionScript Tutorials Website 3 Books About Flash 4 Portals with Flash Games 5 Games For Social Change 6 Interesting Games 7 MORE LINKS 7.1 News and Interesting Articles on Games 7.2 Game Industry 7.3 Production Tools 7.4 Academics

Flash Tutorial Websites

• Beat-em Up Fighting Tutorial
• Basic isometric engine
• Multiplayer Central at gotoAndPlay() provides multiplayer games, tutorials, and a socket server download.
• Drawing and Animating a Character in Macromedia Flash MX 2004, a step-by-step video tutorial that provides a great introduction to character building in Flash.
• CartoonSmart Flash Video Tutorials(fee)
• KillerActionScript Flash Video Tutorials
• TutVid video tutorials on buttons and basic actionscript
• Tutorial-Search
• FlashKit Flash Developer Resource

ActionScript Tutorials Website

• Adobe's ActionScript Dictionary
• Kirupa ActionScript Tutorials

Books About Flash

• Visual QuickStart Guide: Macromedia Flash 8 for Windows and Macintosh by Katherine Ulrich.
• Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide by Russell Chun and H. Paul Robertson.
• Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies, Andy Harris
• Visual QuickPro Guide Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh.
• ActionScript: The Definitive Guide
• Essential ActionScript 2.0
• Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move

Portals with Flash Games

• Flash Portal
• Addicting Games
• Fun Blaster
• MiniClip
• HallPass

Games For Social Change

• MyHLife.org social change game list.
• Cigarette Killer
• Food Force is an educational computer game published by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2005.
• MyHealthLife (This site features a unique collection of Flash casual games, science sims, and other creative tools designed for the younger generation, with integrated tutorials for learning how to build such games and sims).
• Darfur is Dying. This is a viral video game for change that provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. Players can also learn more about the genocide in Darfur that has taken the lives of 400,000 people, and find ways to get involved to help stop this human rights and humanitarian crisis.
• PeaceMaker challenges you to succeed as a leader where others have failed. Experience the joy of bringing peace to the Middle East or the agony of plunging the region into disaster. PeaceMaker will test your skills, assumptions and prior knowledge. Play it and you will never read the news the same way again.

Interesting Games

• GuitarShredShow
• flOw originated as a practice and testbed for Embedded Difficulty Adjustment theory formulated in Jenova Chen's game design thesis. flOw is a web based game designed to attract a wider audience, allowing players with different tastes to enjoy the experience in their own way. flOw will be released for the PS3 as a downloadable game.
• Rabbit Game An interesting game project by a colleague, with tutorials and notes
• Guardians of Altarris: The Sinless Blade This is an extremely complex Flash game that I really enjoy. This game has a ton of graphic depth, with colors, buttons, fonts, and interface that all aesthetically support the fantasy/sci-fi feel of the game. There are complex sound effects and background music that give the game added layers of sophistication, and a strong narrative to support the adventure. There is also a lot of "wiggle room" for players to decide to play solo or with a friend, at various levels of difficulty, and to use their experience points to enhance their character's abilities to support their own game-playing style. This game was dopne in Flash 9 and shows almost unfathomable levels of coding complexity.
• Sim or Strategy
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/cakemania.html
  • http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=disaffected
• Action Games
  • http://www.atomfilms.com/film/animator_vs_animation_game.jsp
• Adventure Games
  • http://www.darfurisdying.com/
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/hapland3.html
  • http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/huntsville.jsp
• Experimental Games
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/invisibility.html
  • http://www.myhlife.org/usa/la/rethink/en/play/bullseye
  • http://www.mamamedia.com/areas/botblox/
  • http://www.mamamedia.com/activities/flipsticks/home.html
• Sound Toy
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/soundfactory.html
  • http://www.myhlife.org/usa/la/rethink/en/play/soundtoy
• SideScroller
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/fancypantsadventure.html
  • http://www.myhlife.org/usa/la/rethink/en/play/scubadiver
  • http://www.myhlife.org/usa/la/rethink/en/play/flycatcher
• Street Fighting
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/rosievstrump.html
• Games with minimal play
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/zidaneheadbuttgame.html
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/bushbackrub.html
  • http://www.addictinggames.com/dangerousdavebrutalbob.html
  • http://afro-ninja.com/vflash.php?id=30

MORE LINKS

News and Interesting Articles on Games

• What About Flash? Can We Really Make Games With It?
• Gamer Revolution - Documentary on Game Culture
• Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
• Text & Web 2.0

Game Industry

• Gamasutra
• Escapist Magazine Weekly magazine-style publication for industry news and commentary.
• Game Developers Conference Annual conference on game development.
• D.I.C.E. Summit
• DC IGDA Chapter
• Creative Heads (Games/Multimedia Jobs)

Production Tools

• Blender (Open Source 3D)
• XNA Game Studio Express
• SmartFoxServer, a commercial multiuser socket server for Flash. A "lite" version is available for free.

Academics

• Game Studies
• Terra Nova