"How Do I Make A Game?"

Wow ... the last weeks have really been tough. If I knew back in December that becoming a flash game developer and learning AS3 would be so hard, maybe I ... ah damnit. I KNEW that it would be a horror. There are other people out there in the community that learned coding from scratch with lots of books, praticed different languages and ended up doing flash games. They are doing this for years now. And they still have a bunch of questions, and still worry about getting enough money out of it ... But even some of those skilled guys don't believe that you can make a living creating flash games. Basically everyone we know was like " ... really?" when we told them, that we'd go for creating flash games. (And they were like "REALLY!?!" when we told them that I (!) would be the coder for the games, but that's a different story.)

... Yep, we knew that it was a hilarious idea from the beginning: Learning how to create a flash game in half a year, release at least one game asap and then earn enough money to create the next game and become a successful flash game developer. Sounds like a plan, hu? ^^

That's the spirit!

Others have proven that it is possible. It's possible if you are good enough. It's possible if  you manage to create simple but fun games, that feel good, look good, sound good, perform good and are appealing to a special group of gamers at the same time. Flash games are on the rise. On a fast and beautiful rise, that may influence gaming more than most of the "real" gamers (or apple employees ...) like to admit.

After months of work, a lot of swearing and three failed attempts to create a game (they just didn´t really work out ... I will tell more about them in another post) the fourth attempt finally turned out to be a game we could release and maybe earn enough money with to justify creating another game. On friday we finally managed to finalize a version of this game that we are now showcasing to sponsors. We are really excited if they will like the game as much as we do. And we are even more excited to see how you will like it. Some days, even weeks, may pass, before we really know, but we will keep you up to date. We've got a lot to tell about our attempt to become flash game developers, about creating games, about earning money with them and about this whole casual gaming thing. And of course there will be an announcement and a trailer soon.

Stay tuned, there's more to come. For now you only get some boobies and a butt: