AvoiderGame.com
The goal of this site is to help you learn to make Flash games.
All the tutorials on this site start from the same base tutorial. For ActionScript 2, that’s this tutorial, by FrozenHaddock. For ActionScript 3, it’s this one, by MichaelJW. These will get you up to speed in your language of choice, by teaching you, step by step, how to make a simple avoider game.
If you’re a beginner at Flash, just pick your language of choice and start working through the corresponding tutorial. Not sure which is right for you? Check out our Welcome post.
If you have some experience, you might still want to skim through the base tutorial to make sure you’ve covered all the basics.
Once you’ve finished those, or if you have a decent amount of experience already, check out the other tutorials we’ll be posting to cover a wider range of game features. Each one builds on the final part of the base tutorial, rather than building on each other, so you can pick and choose the topics you want to read.
FrozenHaddock
FrozenHaddock is actually Tom, a 16 year old living in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He loves writing Actionscript 2.0 (he’s scared of 3, but is learning it regardless!), photography, reading crime novels and talking about himself in the third person.
He’s currently at college, studying Maths, Computing, Photography, iMedia and CISCO/Server+. He volunteers for a local disability charity (DIAL Great Yarmouth) and doesn’t play SFZero nearly enough anymore…
He runs a Flash tutorial blog, assisted by various members of the community, named, funnily enough, FrozenHaddock.co.uk. He suggests you check it out.
His Kongregate account can be found… here. His Newgrounds account may never be found again. (Or if you really insist… here. Enter at your own risk)
MichaelJW
Blessed with three common names, Michael James Williams runs a website whose domain name is in the running for “longest ever”: MichaelJamesWilliams.com.
He met FrozenHaddock on FlashGameLicense, and soon after asked for permission to translate his excellent AS2 tutorial into AS3, figuring it’d be done within a week. Six months later it was completed, and with it the two of them launched AvoiderGame.com.
Michael is on Twitter, Whirled, FGL, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.