# Programming Dopers, I want to make games... Help?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822 "2003-05-08T03:11:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/1 "2003-05-08T03:11:59Z")

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Online Flash type games.  
What programming languages/programs should I learn about/use? Tutorials/Suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/2 "2003-05-08T03:18:43Z")

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Flash _is_ the programming language. Learn the basics [here](http://www.webreference.com/dev/flash/).

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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/3 "2003-05-08T04:26:32Z")

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That’s about designing movies using flash, not games.

Thanks for the link though; I will know now how to do movies.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/4 "2003-05-08T05:02:08Z")

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Start with making simple movies. Seriously. One step at a time, dude. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/5 "2003-05-08T12:45:59Z")

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Oooh! I get to nitpick something for once!  
Flash isn’t a programming language. The “language” you use to make flash do stuff is called Actionscript. [Www.flashkit.com](http://Www.flashkit.com) has lots on actionscripting.

A lot of what feels like flash might also be shockwave Aslan, you might like to look into that. Much more powerful language behind it. Lots of tuts around for that as well.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programming-dopers-i-want-to-make-games-help/173822/6 "2003-05-08T14:15:31Z")

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Flash, Shockwave, and Java are the big three for those kinda games.