Game development
Understand Adobe game development software. These resources will help you understand what IDE, player/runtime, and server (if any) is right for each of your games.
Get started developing games with Flash technologies. Download the tools, SDK, and sample files to start.
Learn about Stage3D. The Stage 3D APIs in Flash Player and Adobe AIR offer a fully hardware-accelerated architecture that brings high impact visuals across desktop browsers and iOS and Android apps enabling advanced 2D and 3D capabilities.
See awesome games everywhere. Flash technology powers the most games on the web and enables some of the best-selling and award-winning mobile apps in the iOS App Store, Android Market, and Amazon Appstore. Playing is believing.
Getting started |
The Adobe Flash Platform makes game development fast and easy with one codebase, console quality, and unsurpassed reach. Visit Adobe Gaming to start developing games with Flash.
- Creating real-time multiplayer games on iOS with Adobe AIR
- Creating turn-based multiplayer games on iOS with the Game Kit AIR native extension
- Using iOS 6 Social Networking features in AIR 3.5 with the GoViral Native Extension
- Game development postmortem: Lume
- Using the GoViral social networking native extension for Android
- Using the GoViral social networking extension for iOS
Getting started with Flash Platform game development
Samuel Asher Rivello (Jul 01, 2011)
Develop, test, optimize, distribute, and monetize games using the Flash Platform
Flash game development tools, runtimes, and servers
(Mar 30, 2011)
Understand the building blocks of what makes Flash games work.
Gaming engines, 3D, and Stage 3D
Get an overview of and learning resources for engines and frameworks for Flash gaming.
Upcoming webinars: Develop Flash-based iOS apps and games with Adobe AIR 3.3
Adobe (Jun 18, 2012)
Learn how to build and debug your first Flash-based application for iOS.
Adobe Premium Features for Flash Player
(Aug 16, 2012)
Use the premium tier of Flash Player capabilities to bring console-quality gaming experiences to more people.
Introducing Starling
Thibault Imbert (Sep 21, 2011)
Write fast GPU accelerated applications without using low-level Stage3D APIs.
Creating 3D games and apps with Away3D 4 and Stage 3D – Part 1
Richard Olsson (Sep 21, 2011)
Learn how to create a simple 3D product viewer with minimal effort using Away3D 4.
Working with Alternativa3D
Artem Pecheny, Yuri Maltsev (Sep 21, 2011)
Animate 3D graphics with Alternativa3D.
Yellow Planet
Yellow Planet is an emersive 3D game built on top of Flare3D and Stage 3D.
Whack!
Using the Starling 2D framework for the Stage3D API, Byxbe developed this "whack a mole" game. Be sure to check out the article about it.
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