"Shootorials" Teach You How to Make Games

Nathan Meunier

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"Shootorials" Teach You How to Make Games



What's better than playing cool indie browser games? Making your own.

Admit it - you've wasted plenty of work hours fiddling with web-based games, when you should have been doing something more productive - like making some of your own. With its new Kongregate [http://www.kongregate.com/labs] is gunning to teach the average Joe the basics of flash game development.

Inspired by the in-house creation of a game simply called Scion [http://www.kongregate.com/] and utilizes a free trial version of Adobe Flash CS3 to make the tutorial game. A dedicated Kongregage Labs forum provides an avenue for budding developers to bounce ideas off one another, troubleshoot issues that arise, and discuss the game creation process.

Kongregate is also running a "Driving Creativity Contest" [http://www.kongregate.com/pages/driving-creativity-contest] with cash prizes to spur new game development. As the full set of "shootorials" are not yet available - new batches go live each week - entries for the month long contest will be accepted starting Oct. 28. That should give hopeful competitors some time to dive in and start concocting their diabolical flash game masterpieces. The final day to submit game entries into the contest is Nov. 28.

Behold: a simple way to learn how to develop flash games for free. What are you waiting for?


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