After seeing the Discovery Channel documentary on the making of Spore I’d like to nominate Will Wright for smartest person on earth. He’s the creative genius behind the Sim City franchise, The Sims and now Spore. What can Flash designers, animators & developers learn from Spore? Lots! Frank Gibeau, president of Electronic Arts’ Games, states “What’s so beautiful about Spore is that it’s extremely malleable… you could take it to different platforms, like playstation, Wii, and flash games…” Seriously, Spore in Flash? Read More …

Have you ever wanted to create a pixel font or a TrueType font but did not know how to do it? Or perhaps you’ve tried but become frustrated with the process? Then meet your new friend, FontStruct!

FontStruct, from the creators of FontShop is a powerful yet super-easy to use online Flash application that allows you to quickly create fonts for free. And once you’ve finished creating your very own font, why not upload it to Flashden and sell it?!

The beauty of FontStruct is the intuitive, usable interface. Within minutes you can quickly create attractive characters and then save them as .ttf files which can be used on both Mac and PC platforms.

Almost 700 fonts at the time of writing have been created on FontStruct and are available to download for personal or commercial projects. Here are some useful links to get you started:

FontStruct guide to making pixel fonts
Font gallery
Screencast overview
FAQs

Good luck creating your masterpieces and don’t forget you have the opportunity to sell your complete font files on Flashden!

There are so many fantastic files added to Flashden each and every day that it can sometimes be difficult to find what you are looking for. Furthermore, it may be that you cannot locate what has recently been added. But fear not! This article will not only help you understand a little more about how Flashden organizes all of our content (and how users navigate it), but hopefully you will discover some cool tips you can use to get to what you want, faster!

The Flashden home page is the perfect and most obvious place to begin. Whether or not you are logged in or out, the home page features some great ways to see what’s new.

Homepage > Recent

The “Recent” tab in our “Start Browsing” section at the bottom of the home page randomly displays 21 out of the 100 most recently added files. This is a great way to get an overview of new content on Flashden. There are a couple of new rules associated with this section, which are: Recent files are only shown from authors who sell their files exclusively on Flashden. So it pays to be an exclusive author for your favorite stock Flash site! That said, we understand this may not be fair to new users, which is why we apply another rule: New users who have sold less than $500 worth of files (i.e. they are not yet eligible to become exclusive) also have the opportunity of having their new files appear on the home page randomly.
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