Taking The Plunge: Writing My First Flash Game

It's been something I've been contemplating for a long time and as my wifes casual gaming website starts to pickup steam and get lots of visitors looking for specific styles of gameplay it seems like a good time to start... my own flash game development studio :)

I've been kicking around many ideas for ways to build a new website for games (not like 2o2p mind you, but for casual gamers to hang out) and their are a lot of unique ideas I had, some that could potentially make money. However, I think the way to go is to stick the stuff I already know and that's programming.

So, I've spend USD $109.00 on an ActionScript 3.0 book and an Adobe Flex book now I must sit down and absorb it and start working on some basics. I've done indy development before with my buddy Sgreth and I've done many years of object oriented development so I'm not really too concerned about any learning curves.

My first goal is a simple casual style RPG game which will mix the styles of Wizardy's "dungeon crawl" with a Final Fantasy style battle system (original FF of course) using my excessively dorky D&D background to come up with the rest. It will be simple enough to develop quickly and complex enough to hopefully make people feel challenged.

Anyway, if anyone wants to create artwork for my project let me know. I'm gonna need some cartoon style art for orcs, kobolds, trolls and such. I'm thinking a total of 16 standard "storybook" style monsters, a "map" for the town, user interface and other misc. art assets.

I'll put your name(s) in the credits :)

Now, off to do some reading...

CodeMonkey (soon to be Adobe ActionScript Monkey)