Need help with Flash Tutorial

:confused;
My high school students have an assignment to create a game designed for
younger children, or grade school students. They are working on this game for
the Hempstead County Cooperative Extention Service. The game must be designed
to help young students learn how to save money. The program is entitled
"Shifting Financial Attitudes."
My students need help getting started. They have worked since August just
getting around in Flash, but when it comes to getting down to work, they simply
are lost. Can anyone help them get started? They have posted several
questions, but the answers aren't clear to them. Please help.
Thanks,
BHS EAST Lab

trying to learn flash by creating/building a game is extremely difficult - most games require a
solid knowledge of graphics, animation and actionscript. There are books devoted entirely to this
topic. hard to type out all there is to know from the ground up - the basics of flash are in the
help docs (F1) and from there, flash is a blank canvas - anything can be built any number of ways.
There is not set way of creating a game - all games are different and each one could be built in a
myriad ways.
How will the game work? how many graphics are needed and how complex? how much interactivity will be
involved? will there need to be any backend (database) involvement?

In terms of getting started - there's are countless tutorials all over the web that will help get
you started:

www.keyframer.com
www.gotoandlearn.com
www.kirupa.com

there are hundreds more but those will get you started on your way to learning flash - but the game
itself is it's own mountain to overcome. Start with a detailed plan with pencil and paper and be as
detailed as possible.

without anything more specific, that's about all i can offer at the moment.

hope this helps get you started.

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cfmg921 wrote:
> :confused;
> My high school students have an assignment to create a game designed for
> younger children, or grade school students. They are working on this game for
> the Hempstead County Cooperative Extention Service. The game must be designed
> to help young students learn how to save money. The program is entitled
> "Shifting Financial Attitudes."
> My students need help getting started. They have worked since August just
> getting around in Flash, but when it comes to getting down to work, they simply
> are lost. Can anyone help them get started? They have posted several
> questions, but the answers aren't clear to them. Please help.
> Thanks,
> BHS EAST Lab
>