What are some good ideas for a Flash Game?

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Right now my school is having an Animation and Interactive Games contest, and I think I can win (or at least make a good effort.) I have had some experience with Flash before, but I was following a tutorial, and I stopped when Flash gave me this super annoying error so I had to put Flash on my other computer. I used to have CS3 but now I have CS4. I am learning in ActionScript 3.0. I was following these tutorials. http://www.kongregate.com/labs (By the way those tutorials were for ActionScript 2.0, but I was using a separate version for ActionScript 3.0.





I haven't been able to come up with any ideas, and that's where you guys come in. I was thinking about following the tutorial and creating my own images and a different game idea (but pretty much the same thing) but I don't really like the idea. I'm definitely not going to use the original finished product from the tutorial, because I feel like I'm submitting somebody else's game, and that's not right. Here is a list of my favorite games:


http://www.kongregate.com/games/2DArray/鈥?/a> (Possible one of my absolute favorites because of the beautiful plot.)


http://www.kongregate.com/games/fastgame鈥?/a>


http://www.kongregate.com/games/arawkins鈥?/a>


http://www.kongregate.com/games/ConArtis鈥?/a>


http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Thing-Th鈥?/a>


http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Boxhead-鈥?/a>


http://www.kongregate.com/games/TogeProd鈥?/a>


http://www.kongregate.com/games/YMM315/m鈥?/a>





Please give me some ideas. My favorite is The Company of Myself because of the powerful plot and great game-play. Please suggest game ideas. By the way, I am not a fan of tower defense games.





QUICK EXPLANATION: Please suggest ideas for a flash game for me to make for my school's animation and interactive games contest.|||Hey that's really cool! I understand about you copying problem. Just start learning script by yourself. Tutorials are really good for learning. There is nothing wrong with it; that's what they are there for.


I also agree with your idea help... I always have that problem too. Usually, after a little while I come up with something. It's not easy.





鈥?To help me, I usually pick a random object and go from there.


鈥?Or maybe think of games I've played before and how I could make something better or more fun then that one. If you email me, I can show you my website.





Common games:


鈥?Platformer


鈥?Shooter (ehh...)


鈥?Skill


鈥?Physics.





I know physics is hard to make (I'm 13 years old and I still can't figure out trigonometry. Haha!)


Platformers are always fun!


Shooter are over-rated.


Skill... it's hard to come up with stuff.





I love making platformer games.


Try making a cool character in an exotic world.





Animation...


Let's think...


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Well, you need a script.


character


animation


Originality


quality.


This is what animation contests like.





I don't know.


Originality is hard. I have a website with characters and it's really fun.


Again, just e-mail me, and I will give you my website name.