Shootorial #0: Introduction to Flash!Shootorial #1: Ship Movement Via Keyboard Input
Shootorial #2: Scrolling Background
Shootorial #3: Missiles
Shootorial #4: Enemy Ships
Shootorial #5: Collision Detection
Shootorial #6: Adding Score, Health Meter, and Game Over
Shootorial #7: Adding Power Ups, Mini Bosses and Bosses
Shootorial #8: Adding Enhancements, Audio and The Kong API
Why consider learning flash? The games industry is begging for UI artists and flash artists ever since the ipad/iphone became one of the leading handheld consoles for gaming. Casual Gaming online has been growing in the past decade as well. All artwork isn't necessarily done in flash (vector based). Alot of it is PNG imports of sprites and backgrounds. Learn to put all these together with simple coding and you could have a packaged masterpeice on your hands that can be sold online at the apple store.
I have some examples/recomendations of casual games. I'm not 100 percent sure if they are all flash. A friend of mine created a game called Zombie Minesweeper. She did it independently and things seem to be going quite well. The game that's really setting the bar is Sword and Sworcery. There are also quite a few facebook games making a comeback including The Sims and Neopets: Treasure Keepers. Check out the casual games market. There's no reason it can't be gorgeous either.
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