A succesful flash game.

[Falcondynamite]

Now I'm just putting this out here, If say a team of developers on a flash game does well enough to catch heavy attention, could you possibly progress past that, what I mean is to make a full game version of the original flash. Sure I've already hinted enough that a group composed of five people me included as the director and artist, wants to actually know if we could get anywhere with such ambition.

We've worked on the game for around four months (putting complications aside three months) and it's basically a hardcore platformer (I'll give more info if I'm asked to) the title of the game is "Scrublys". Now I thought the best approach if anything was to submit the flash game, and if it gets positive results, work on other flash games to really up the popularity as a flash team, but with all those ideas to convince to actually make a full fledged game of them!

If anyone could give the slightest bit of advice, I'd greatly appreciate it, I really want to contribute to this, I've grown up with gaming as a child, and I want to make a career out of this (currently in college).

Hope to hear something!

 

[Limecake]

well of course you can turn your flash game into a full (albeit XBLA or PSN) game.

Take a look at Alien Hominid and super meat boy, both were flash games that received quite a nice fan following and were ported to consoles and steam. Castle Crashers was also done by the Alien Hominid team and is arguably the best XBLA game on the service.

However if you are going into your first flash game assuming it'll be the flash game to end all flash games than you are going to be disappointed. Make the game because you want to make it, not because you're looking to get paid.

also once the game is complete upload it to Kongregate, from what I can tell they offer a couple ways for developers to make a little money back through donations or whatnot.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

The aforementioned Alien Hominid, as well as Meat Boy and Fancy Pants Adventures are all good examples. I hope that if people like my (Hopefully I get around to making) Flash game, I can get it on other platforms. Now just to learn how to make Flash games...

 

[Falcondynamite]

well of course you can turn your flash game into a full (albeit XBLA or PSN) game.

Take a look at Alien Hominid and super meat boy, both were flash games that received quite a nice fan following and were ported to consoles and steam. Castle Crashers was also done by the Alien Hominid team and is arguably the best XBLA game on the service.

However if you are going into your first flash game assuming it'll be the flash game to end all flash games than you are going to be disappointed. Make the game because you want to make it, not because you're looking to get paid.

also once the game is complete upload it to Kongregate, from what I can tell they offer a couple ways for developers to make a little money back through donations or whatnot.

Oh believe me, I've heard and enjoyed both of those games very much, however I haven't been able to build much of a fan base, however that comes to no surprise considering I've yet to actually submit a flash game.

Also on the other note I don't wish to do it to get paid, I really just want to make games and entertainment for anyone, just fun games (with brutal difficulty, but not annoyingly brutal, the type where you can see where you messed up on and are willing to give it another shot). as I've said, I grew up with them, and I really want to make games for arcade! I was thinking of uploading it to multiple flash game websites (Kongregate, Newgrounds etc...) I need however to make enough money to have one of them willing to file for a production claim, but we must send them a lot of work if we want something that big! Sadly however I'm afraid my art skills are only so limited, I need to either get better, or find artist who are more diverse in their drawing capabilities. I recently also found a musician to compose background music which is incredibly helpful!

Plus it doesn't kill to add some weird unique stuff into a game too, that's always a bonus!

 

[Falcondynamite]

I learned some uses on flash when I went into my digital design class, regretfully I'm not the best at using it, I only know a limited amount of code, which is why I got very lucky and was friends with a programer is pretty good at it, the more help the merrier though!

 

[aba1]

I am working on a title for XBLA and have been a flash animator for around 7 years now so I will recomend checking out newgrounds its the best flash communitee on the net alot of talent to be seen there.

 

[Falcondynamite]

Oh believe me I spend a lot of time on Newgrounds! You're definitely correct on that!