So what are we using these days?

[abseeley]

So ive been out of the game for a while when it comes to flash, still playing the games but not so much on the making them side of things. Last time I used flash it was Flash MX and just plain old AS. AS2 was an option but no one used it. In the meantime I learned python heavily to the point where I could do just about anything shy of a full fledged 3D game and I decided to call it mastered at that.

Which brings me to my question, i've been yearning to work on a suitable platform that will allow my games to reach an audience with ease but still be complex near full games like that of a downloadable. It seems flash has grown up in the past years along with me! So after doing a little research Im catching all this flash super pro 9x, flex pro builder and yaada yaada along with AS 3.0 which looks waaaahaaayhaaaay more intimidating then AS 1, hell you can barely see the resemblance!

So I want to get back into the flash game programming/developing, but where the eff do I start! AS 3.0 is obviously something that will need to be learned, but what dev platfrom do I use? Flex? Flash? Some other thing I've never heard of? If someone could point me in the right direction maybe some tutorials or online free reading material and what the standard is for flash games these days it would be very much appreciated! I would enjoy the top of the line software that works the best (price isnt an object here). Thanks guys, peace

[Super-Yombario]

Flash CS3 is most likely best... It's native to AS 1, 2 and 3. I just use Flash 8, with AS1 and 2, and it's much, MUCH cheaper, being as it's last-gen. You'll find it on eBay for <300 dollars.

[BrokenEdge]

Flash CS3 is great, but I never use AS3.

And you can always 'comendeer' it.

Arr.

[abseeley]

At 7/25/08 10:03 PM, BrokenEdge wrote: Flash CS3 is great, but I never use AS3.

And you can always 'comendeer' it.

Arr.

Yes anyone with some juice in their melon can commandeer just about any softwarez from 'teh interwebz' with great ease, and this is my plan once again! lol

Ive also noticed a great hate on AS 3 why is that anyways? I believe it is faster? Is it, and how much and I dont want to start a great debate so a nutshell of both sides of the argument would be great.

[Super-Yombario]

Pros
AS2 is simplest, AS3 is shiny and new.
AS2 is the most common, AS3 is (most likely) more versatile.
Cons
AS2 Is confusing people with the "WTF did they just change it?" AS3 is too.

[abseeley]

I dunno it seems the future can just go forward, and the hate on for AS 3 seems to come from its steeeep ass learning curve, even though they knew 2 or 3 the flash guys just made an entirely new language and said it was a new version.....thats enough to piss off and programmer.

So im thinking 3 is the way to go as im willing to invest the time to learn. Comments?

[zrb]

At 7/26/08 04:24 AM, abseeley wrote: So im thinking 3 is the way to go as im willing to invest the time to learn. Comments?

Go for it.

[Resolution]

I think it's definitely worth learning AS3, people who say it's worse are just lazy old farts :P

[abseeley]

Wonderful, thanks guys, cs3 and as3 here i come!

[RyanPridgeon]

Learn actionscript 3. If you say you know AS2 or 1, you should not find it hard. You just need to learn the new way of declaring variables and the importing. Also addEventListener is basically the new enterFrame, load, keyUp etc

To the people saying its completely different - you're wrong. They've just taken out the baby stuff and made you import the script (which isnt even hard!)

[DanBomer]

I'm sticking with AS2, AS3 is too hard. :'(