My Wishlist for Flash

Hi there. I've already completed one flash game and have now, about a week till my next game is complete. I've been hanging around Flash Game Development communities (mostly focused on monetisation aspects) for a while now, and I'd just like to share my current wishlist for Flash extensions.

• A Gamersafe series of extensions.

The Mochi extensions (soon to be released) are excellent, but they are only half the story. Mochi's direct competitors, regarding micro-transactions, are Gamersafe. Currently, in the Flash market, Mochi Coins and GameGold (Gamersafe's version) are the two biggest. I'd like to see Gamersafe because, not only does it widen the playing field for us devs trying to implement the best solution, but I actually believe that it's a better solution than Mochi Coins. Gamersafe do much less branding and when a customer wants to buy an item, much less is done off-site. Some will argue that the 60% share with developer that Mochi claim is only after certain Mochi imposed fees are taken, where as Gamersafe offer a straight 60/40 cut.

In addition to Gamergold, there is also an Achievement system and a Save Game system. Another pack of extensions perhaps?

• A Kongregate series of extensions. Kongregate is probably the biggest flash arcade, and certainly the biggest community of Flash gamers in the world, but games are not likely to do well unless they have implemented their API. They have their own achievement system with badges. Since Mochi-ads are actually not allowed on the site, and Kong's dev share thing is pretty cool, I'm sure many of us would like to see these extensions.

• CPM Star. Yeah, I know it requires an invitation, and without an invitation the extension can't be developed. As soon as I get my invitation, I'll happily share the API (or whatever I get when I'm invited) with a developer should Clickteam want to fund an extension. CPM Star are known to offer a much, much higher eCPM than Mochi (which is very, very low, as I have discovered).

Please consider funding/creating these extensions. :)

I second all of these. If we had access to all of these it would be fantastic.

I too have been hanging around lots of Flash dev sites that focus on the monetizing aspect of the games. One thing I can safely say is that the games that we all make with MMF2 are quite often vastly superior to what the Flash devs are making and we can make them in half the time! With these extensions it may make some Flash devs have a good think about using MMF2.

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I second these suggestions, too :)

I'm third and I would like to open API for Flash so we could make proper extensions for example for Polish*companies.

Also*I*would*suggest*builtin*Olivier*object*based* solution*rather*then*embedded*one*to*be*validated* as*a*proper*site*AND Clubsoft JavaScript*Code*for*resizing.

Awesome suggestions. Hopefully these features will eventually find their way into MMF2. :)

Good ideas, although i can't help but think a general API extension which you could customize to use all sorts of APIs would be the best thing. That way if others happened that were good it would mean people could always set something up for them rather than needing a extension developer.

Same idea with any flash librarys, i would rather a action script coding extension so you could just code it yourself along the lines of Lua or python etc. Kongregate seems to have a AS3 API so you could probably setup APIs through a actionscript extension also. That way it means there is no waiting around for them as it would allow people to make and share things.

This is a game made by Cecil (coding) and myself (graphics) on Kongregate. I think it could benefit very much with a Kongregate API :D

Since when did Cecil's snake get a graphical revamp? ._ .

Since yesterday . _.

Flashed version of Box2D! So many flash games have physics in them now.

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Originally Posted by netninja

Flashed version of Box2D! So many flash games have physics in them now.

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Has Daniel or Jonas pronounced about Box2D for flash already?

I doubt it, it's definitely possible, but I've looked into Box2d for flash, and it would take an immense amount of work and pretty much a complete recoding of the extension.

Box2D is definitely not required for flash at this early stage. Before that is considered, there is a much bigger need for a Pathfinding extension for Flash.

There is a AS3 box2d library available which is one of the main reasons i hope clickteam has a AS3 coding object at some point that can use library's. I have used various of these with non clickteam coding apps and they work great so it really would allow for so much new things to be done then in my opinion.

I think it would be better for developers also because rather than just using existing stuff you have to make a object for each thing you want. That of course would be loads of work and there is lots of cool library's available now for things like advanced maths, physics and 3d etc.

That's easy enough to do, the problem lies in making a C++ version, because Actionscript doesn't work until you export

I would be happy with a general AS3 API for the exporter; it's so tantalising being able to decompile the exported SWFs and wondering how much trouble it would be to hook into the code and recompile it (answer = alot)!

Instead of hassling ClickTeam for a (understandably) never-ending wish-list for specific requirements, a general API would allow others to develop for their own requirements and for other users if there is enough demand.

I am surprised and grateful that the Mochi extensions have been provided free of charge; it is something that many publishers would have charged a substantial premium for (i.e. you are going to make money from this, and I want a cut), and I think that it is generous for ClickTeam to have provided them as a freebie with what is, essentially, a first bug-fix release.

ClickTeam will never be able to please everyone, so a general API would be a good start (so we can please ourselves), and then perhaps specific upgrades (Kongregate, CPMStar, etc) as and when possible.

My final comment is that MMF2 + SWF Exporter is an absolute steal at the current price.

Thank you ClickTeam!

I'd like to add -

1) Editbox that stays the correct size
2) Editbox that doesn't make the cursor turn into a caret or whatever when hovering over an Active System Box

Villy fixed the other bugs I reported (I think it was him) about the Edit box but I still need those two.