Game Design & Development Tutorials

Free tutorials and online courses to help you learn game development from experienced industry instructors, for building and designing your own games. Join our community to learn new skills, theory, game dev software, and more. What would you like to learn?

Create a Flickr-Based Pairs Game With Flash: The Basics
In this tutorial you’ll learn to build a card-matching game, in Flash, that uses Flickr as the source of its images. The first part of this two-part series...
James Tyner
29 Aug 2011
Game Design
Create a "Frenzic" Inspired Puzzle Game in Flash
Take a look at this Premium Tutorial to create an entertaining puzzle game, inspired by Frenzic, using Flash and ActionScript 3.
Carlos Yanez
7 Jul 2011
Game Design
Create a "Rapid Roll" Game in Flash
Take a look through this Premium Tutorial and create an entertaining falling platforms game using Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Don't hit the purple platforms...
Carlos Yanez
22 Jun 2011
Game Design
Create a Space Shooter Game in Flash Using AS3
Follow the straight-forward steps of this Premium Tutorial to create an entertaining shoot-'em-up with Flash and AS3.
Carlos Yanez
19 May 2011
Game Design
Obscuring and Revealing Scenes with AS3
One of the simplest game mechanics is to let the player find a hidden object. Games based on this take many forms: Where's Waldo, Peek-A-Boo, Spot the...
Michael James Williams
6 May 2011
Game Design
Building a Dynamic Shadow Casting Engine in AS3
Dynamic shadows give game developers a way to recreate real life experience with lights and shadows. Every time we move, we cast shadows according to the...
Daniel Sidhion
22 Apr 2011
Game Design
Create a Slot Machine Game in Flash Using AS3
Follow the straight-forward steps of this Premium Tutorial to create an entertaining Slot Machine game in Flash. Spin the wheels and see what you could win!
Carlos Yanez
6 Apr 2011
Game Design
Build an AS3 Tetris Game From the Ground Up
In this Active Premium tutorial we'll be creating a variant of the classic Tetris game, explaining general game concepts as well as some specific to this genre.
Alex
17 Mar 2011
Game Design
Harness the Power of Palette Mapping to Customize Game Characters
In this tutorial I'll show you how to use AS3's PaletteMap feature to create a character customization interface for your next game.
Cadin Batrack
8 Mar 2011
Game Design
Build a Striking Breakout Game in Flash
In this Premium Tutorial, we'll be building a Breakout game; "Brick Breaker" from scratch using Flash and AS3.
Carlos Yanez
9 Feb 2011
Game Design
“Double Down” with an Awesome Flash BlackJack Game
In this Premium Tutorial, we'll be building an amazing BlackJack game from scratch using Flash and AS3.
Carlos Yanez
18 Jan 2011
Game Design
Create Your Own Match 3 Game With Flixel: Polish
This week in Active Premium, we'll show you how to complete your Bejeweled-style Match 3 game, adding a title screen, a scoring system, and a Hint button;...
Daniel Branicki
6 Jan 2011
Game Design