Oh my god guys, you absolutely must go to amanitadesign.com, and then click Samorost 1. It's an awesome point and click game that kicks ass. It is a lot like the games I have always longed to make, except mine would be platformers.

Help with making platformers? I need a clear tutorial perfectly compatible with flash 8. I will accept no crappy grammar or lack of interactivity. Must be in flash format or text (I hate video format).

Just finished and submitted ms paint cartoon. Not meant to look good, meant for FunnyJunk.

Flash seems like a pretty reliable program so far, but some things just seem way more difficult than they should be. I still can't make a simple vase out of a circle and a rectangle, partially because of the uselessness of the tutorials I have been trying to use. Honestly you have no idea how shitty and impossible to understand they can be. All I want to do is learn the basics and be able to find a helpful tutorial, one for beginners that you can actually follow. I'm not planning on jumping straight into making platformers (even though I really wish I could) but my lack of progress is starting to piss me off.