I’ve blogged before about using FlashDevelop to make Flash games for free. Just for fun, I decided to do a very little project tonight… a simple slider puzzle game to challenge myself. I set myself a time target of 3 hours to build the whole thing (assets included) from scratch. Ultimately, I ended up with 3 and a half hours, but I got it working. You can see the result below… Read more FlashDevelop demo — Slider Puzzle
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Making Flash games the free way
At one stage, developing Flash games required an expensive licence, or piracy. Thankfully, the open source FlashDevelop, along with things like the Flex SDK from Adobe, has changed all that. I’ve been working on a project with TuDocs Studios which has benefited from the availability of FlashDevelop, but admittedly I hadn’t got my teeth into much coding. I decided I needed to learn ActionScript though (it’s been on my ‘todo’ list for years!), and it’s been more straightforward than I had expected.
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