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Squiddicus
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I know I need a flash game, but I don't know what I can use for it.

Please list all the free programs to make the flash games in.

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Gantic
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King

Adobe Flex SDK + other optional programs for the Actionscript necessary to make an SWF.

acmed
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Nomad

Wait Gantic, is Flex something I can download like flash, and it's free, and I can post on AG?

Gantic
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Flex SDK is nothing like Flash. It just comes with a compiler that allows you to make flash applications.

acmed
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Nomad

Soooo, can you make games on it? Explain it to me

Gantic
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Definitely. There are guides out there that do better explaining, but the bare bones of it is you write the code with Actionscript, compile it, and (assuming all's good and well) voila you have a Flash game that probably works. The hard part is writing the Actionscript.

GhostOfMatrix
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Herald

Stencyl is something that you could use to create flash games easily. It's basically for beginner game makers that want to create flash games easily but don't know how to code.

master565
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The only free program is Flash Develope, but you still need to know how to program AS3 and its more difficult for beginners to use then Flash Professional, which is 700$.

acmed
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Nomad

GOM, is Stencyl swf file? Cuz I want to download it and put in AG.

master565
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GOM, is Stencyl swf file? Cuz I want to download it and put in AG.


It does export it as a SWF, but getting it on AG is a different story. These programs never fully compare to the real thing, so making a good game would be difficult. You would still need to create your own art to start with. It says online that you can still use AS3 in collaboration with this, and that's what changes everything. In game maker, the quality of the games you can make is very low, until you start using game makers programming language. While you might be able to create a decent game with this, if you can't program I'm not sure you can reach AG's quality standards.
GhostOfMatrix
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What Master said. And if you want to create a quality game that AG will accept, then it'll take a month or two. This flash game was created with Stencyl and took six weeks to create.

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