How to make a Game

**CarbonBeast** · May 28th, 2013

Hi i want to make a game and i also want to upload this game on http://www.newgrounds.com/
as long i know it have to be a Flash File..
so how to do a Flash game on Linux/Ubuntu13.04 ?
i have no idea where to start or what to use..
if there is something like "The Games Factory 2" (by clickteam) for Ubuntu, cool.
if not, also ok, programming is no big deal..
the more the better, let me know all my options

-Thanks

**Sofox** · May 28th, 2013

Going through all your options, I think your best option is Stencyl. It runs on Ubuntu, exports to Flash, and is designed to make game development easier for those with no extensive programming knowledge.

**CarbonBeast** · May 28th, 2013

Stencyl doesn't work for ubuntu

**BlinkinCat** · May 28th, 2013

Originally Posted by CarbonBeast

Stencyl doesn't work for ubuntu

Are you sure?

**CarbonBeast** · May 28th, 2013

Yes! i checked the forum... nothing.
They try to bring Stencyl now for almost 2 years in the Ubuntu Software-Center but there is still nothing..
because "it kinda don't looks that good"
..the "tutorial" on how to run Stencyl on Linux also didn't worked

**gandalf3** · May 28th, 2013

Originally Posted by CarbonBeast

..the "tutorial" on how to run Stencyl on Linux also didn't worked

do you mean this?
http://www.stencyl.com/stencyl/get/

**CarbonBeast** · May 29th, 2013

yes

**gandalf3** · May 29th, 2013

Seems to have worked for me..

what exactly didn't work about it?

what i did:

after extracting file, run the Stencyl script like it says in the "tutorial"

make the sw.jar file executible and run.. (there you go!)

for some reason to run any of the example games i had to install ia32-libs-gtk.

**mister_k81** · May 30th, 2013

what type of game do you want to make? If you are looking at making a 2D platformer or 2D overhead game, I suggest trying out MelonJS: http://www.melonjs.org/ with the Tiled map editor: http://www.mapeditor.org/

This is an HTML5 framework that uses java script coding, so it works in just about every browser, regardless of the platform. And you can make some pretty nice things with it. There is a basic tutorial here: http://melonjs.github.io/tutorial/ and the Tiled map editor has a Linux build. Check out some examples here: http://www.melonjs.org/gallery.html