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Flash game development

where to begin? I want to create multiplayer flash games with Union (any experience?)

but what IDEs and prerequisites do I need to start?

also what does Flex mean?

thanks.

ps What is the best way to acquire game assets? ex) 2d sprites ... I gave up trying to develop my own. do I need to outsource (any dedicated location to find offshore artists?) or buy some kind of package.

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Divide the questions next time. As a general answer, here's what I recommend.

Flex
Flex is good for creating application style interfaces and has a powerful editor similar to Eclipse. Flash has a timeline for animation, but programmers find the API crappy. We're not going to get into this better, that's personal preference.

Game Development
If you are just starting out developing a game that sounds like what you are talking about, this book will give you an idea of โ€‹โ€‹what is involved.

Real World Flash Game Development
Chris Griffith



Object Oriented Programming
You will need a book that gives an overview of AS3 and object oriented programming. From this and the book on game development, you can understand the scope of such a project.

Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0
Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Todd Yard

You will gather resources and find what you need as you learn. I've only done components, but I know it's easy to get stuck halfway through a project. Before you get into the game assets, you need to have a clear goal and understand what will happen to the game architecture. Hope this helps.

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Kongregate has great tutorials for making Flash games.



http://www.kongregate.com/labs

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As far as making the flash games multiplayer item, I highly recommend Red5 to handle your remote shared objects.

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