Ok alot of people make threads here in general help asking how to make a game. It is always the same answer every time and people tend to hit the new thread button before they look around to see if that thread is already here. So I'm going to tell you guys what you need to do to make your own game.

First off, get Flash. Get the 30 day trail to start with and if you like it, buy it.
http://www.stickpageportal.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41444
You can get it for a discount of less than half the price it originally is with proof that you're a student.
http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=798267&qk_srch=adobe+flash+cs3[/QUOTE]

Now that you have Flash, how do you make a game?

Well you need to learn how, it can not be taught in one simple thread. But I can show you the resources to make games like the pros, given time.

Now you need to understand how to animate on a relatively good level for that I would suggest our Flash tutorial section right here at SPP and if you can't find what you're after there, Google is always a good option
http://forums.stickpage.com/forumdisplay.php?18-Flash-Tutorials

Now that you know some decent animating skills you can apply that towards a game. But how do you turn animations into a game? With Action Script, it is what takes animations and turns them into games or nifty little parlor tricks. But like I said before it can't be taught in just one thread. So heres a couple links to get you started.

Actionscript.org is a good resource for beginners and pros.
http://actionscript.org/
Our Flash tut section has several action script threads in it, look around
http://forums.stickpage.com/forumdisplay.php?18-Flash-Tutorials
The Tutorial Index has guides for making a variety of games, including platformers and snake games
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?32381-Tutorial-Index
Newgrounds has a wide selection of tuts.
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/flashtutorials
Flash kit is good if you use Flash 8 or MX, I learned alot of what I know from here.
http://flashkit.com/tutorials/
Kirupa has been suggested by Raffi and has alot of neat tricks
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm
Pacothegreat suggested tutorialized and has a LARGE amount of tuts.
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1
Check out Pixal2life's Actionscript and Game interfaces sections. Thanks for the link Apples!
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_flash/
This dude has a blog where he teaches you how to make clones of popular games. Thier not exact, but close.
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/

Now there are several "tuts" that tell you exactly how to make a game very easy, its as simple as copying the code, adding a few movieclips, and you're done. I like to call these Copypasta games. You will never get exactly what you want from them, you don't learn anything, and it won't earn you any respect, so do us a favor and don't make them and pass it off as your "hard work".

Once you know a good variety of codes and have made a few basic games, try putting a lot of different techniques together, I once took a technique I learned from making a fighting game and turned it into a awesome platformer. So one technique is not limited to just that type of game.

FREE ALTERNATIVE TO FLASH
Flash gives better results, alot of awesome games have been made in Flash, more than any other program for public use. However there are free alternatives if you don't have the cash to pay for Flash.

Game Maker is a free game maker [hence the name] its free for download and anyone can use it. You won't get the same quality results you would get from flash in game maker though. Another downside is that when you make your games they are published in an exe format, that means their runnable programs instead of ones that could be shown on a web page. Meaning that your players must download your game in order to play it.

Heres where you can get game maker:
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/

You have to register to download but I believe but the download is free [I think registering is also free, I honestly didn't check].

Theres a list of tuts on the bottom of the page to get you started.

NEED MORE GAME MAKER RESOURCES


And last but not least, if you are stuck and can't find what you're looking for, Don't come to general help to make a thread. Try Google, its faster, easier, and less trouble on us. And if you still can't find what you're after once you've tried Google, come here look around to see if someone else has the same problem. If someone doesn't have the same problem make a thread and carefully type out your problem and don't say something along the lines of

"omg ths code won'tz wrk cn u help me?!?!?!11??"

Type it out like

"Hey, I can't seem to get this code to work . I keep getting these errors when I try to run it . If you guys could help me that'd be awesome, thanks!"

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If you guys know of more resources than the ones I gave, lemme have em ^_^

I'm not the only one tired of all the how do you make a game tuts am I? Sticky?

Bravo good sir.

www.kirupa.com by any chance?

Also, what Chim said.

nice hopefully this helps.
ohh and i think www.tutorialized.com has good tutorials

Thanks, someone needed to make this, you should add a list of people you can ask instead of making a thread about it.

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Bravo good sir.

Thank you, Thank you. *bows*

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www.kirupa.com by any chance?

Also, what Chim said.

Thanks for the link.

Quote from PacoTheGreat

nice hopefully this helps.
ohh and i think www.tutorialized.com has good tutorials

wow, thats alot of tuts, thanks for link

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Thanks, someone needed to make this, you should add a list of people you can ask instead of making a thread about it.

I would make a list but I don't want to tell a lot of noobs to start PMing someone respected about things without their permission. You know how annoying noobs can be to some people. I also think the resources should be enough.

Nice thread, RC. Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Chronic's tutorial of basically the same name where the mods just dumped it into the Other Tutorials section.

Well this needs to be here instead of in the tuts section. They see general help and say "oh heres where I can ask how to make an animation!" instead of scrolling down and finding that they say "hey heres where they tell me how to make an animation"

The General Help section has a gravitational pull. It draws noobs who ask these questions instead of looking for the answers themselves.

When did chronic make his thread?

yeah ^^ agreed
hopefully this will also stop coppy pasta games.

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Well this needs to be here instead of in the tuts section. They see general help and say "oh heres where I can ask how to make an animation!" instead of scrolling down and finding that they say "hey heres where they tell me how to make an animation"

The General Help section has a gravitational pull. It draws noobs who ask these questions instead of looking for the answers themselves.

When did chronic make his thread?

He made it probably a month ago because there were quite a few noobs throwing "how do i make games" threads out there. The Tomo moved it to Other Tutorials. This one's quite a bit more in depth than Chronic's though.

http://www.pixel2life.com/search/all/games/1/
Heres a good site.

@paco; It won't stop them, I'm just letting them know that its not really worth it. I made copypasta games myself once. [A long time ago]

@Spazz;If chronics was written more along the lines of "Learn actionscirpt and you're done." then I can understand not wanting to sticky it. I hope this is in depth enough to get the stickyfication so we stop getting these people asking how to make games.

EDIT: Thanks for the link App

Kinda funny that you completely left Game Maker out...

I did it because when most people ask how to make games they want to make games like wpnfire or madness combat. Gamemaker, I won't deny, can make some awesome games, but its not what most people are after. That and I don't know any resources for gamemaker nor where to get it.