How do I learn Flash Game Development?

Question

I\'m currently a PHP programmer and one of my childhood dreams is to create a game.

The problem is I don\'t know Flash. I\'m not great at drawing stuff or even artistic.

Answer 1

There's a similar question, What technology should I use to write my game?.

My suggestion there, was to consider the Unity 3d Game Engine. In addition to being a fairly powerful development tool, it has several cross-platform deployment options. You can build both a stand-alone executable (for Windows and Mac, not yet Linux), and a web-browser version.

It also uses both Javascript and C# (and Boo, a variant of Python) for scripting languages. These are based on Mono, the Open-Source version of .NET, so it's not just a gaming platform, but has access to all of .NET's abilities (well, those implemented in Mono anyway).

See the Licensing page for a long list of Unity's features (the Basic version is free). And check out the list of Unity-based games, of which the first is Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, by Electronic Arts.