I want to create some flash games to help people lean Hindi on my www.ISpeakHindi.com site.  I got the 30 day try to Adobe Flash, and got the book “Foundation Game Design with Flash” by Rex van der Spuy.  It is fantastic.  I have a programming background, but I think this book starts you off basic enough that I want my 11 year-old and 7 year old to go through it.  (They have been wanting to make flash games for a long time… And it isn’t that hard to do something simple.)

I’m only at the end of chapter 3, and this is what I have been able to create.  Note, every single graphic on this was produced by me falling directions in the book.  There is no, “just copy this graphic and place it here”, it is literally teaching how to draw all these things and create the scene.  Really great!