Flash Game Development

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I want to learn how to make Flash games, so I thought I'd build this lens to store useful information I find as I go. For now, I've found some basic books and info, when I finally get around to learning I hope to add more.

General Flash Info 

Tutorials and resources for learning Flash development in general.

Macromedia Flash 8
It's now officially Adobe, but I guess it'll be okay to call it Macromedia for a few years yet.
Flash Documentation
Search the official Flash documentation.
Flash Developer Center
Training and Tutorials for Flash direct from the source.
The Macromedia Community
User Groups, events, forums, blogs, all the usual online community stuff.
Flash Tutorials from Site Point
A great selection of Flash tutorials.
Oreilly Safari
Subscription based online book store... you pay a monthly fee for access to a number of books per month. It's a great deal and you can learn a lot for less if you make good use of it.
Flash Guru
A flash development blog, with tutorials and more.
Tutorialized
About a thousand Flash tutorials, and hundreds more on other web design topics. At least 50 of the Flash tutorials are game related.

Game Related Flash Info 

Goto and Play
A massive online resource for flash games and tutorials.
The Goto and Play Forums
Very busy flash game development forums.
Tony Pa's tutorials
A great looking tutorial series that goes in depth on tile based game development in Flash.

General Game Development Info 

Casual Game Blogs
This blog aggregator is dedicated to casual gaming blogs.
Derek Yu's Pixel Art
Pixel Art tutorial.
Free Game Development books
Free Game Development books

Flash Game Development stuff from Amazon 

Macromedia Flash Pro 8 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Amazon Price: $699.00 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Development (Game Development Series)

Amazon Price: (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development

Amazon Price: $36.46 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Design Demystified

Amazon Price: $34.21 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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Flash MX 2004 Games: Art to ActionScript

Amazon Price: (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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The Flash 8 Game Developing Handbook

Amazon Price: $24.23 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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Building Great Flash MX Games

Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 12/03/2009) Buy Now

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The Goto and Play Blog 

Recent Blog posts from Goto and Play a massive Flash resource.

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Casual Game Blogs Feed 

The latest blog entries on Casual Game Blogs.

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My Codesnipers Blog 

If I get around to learning Flash, I'll be writing it about it on my Codesnipers blog.

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