How to make Flash Games

I have found several ways of distributing sites. Seems the best way would be to manually go to the large portals and submit your game directly to them.

For a list of portals, in order of ‘popularity’ go to: http://mochi.omgames.co.uk/portals.php

You could also try one of the best automated systems around, “Flash Game Distribution” at: http://flashgamedistribution.com

Send your game out as many ways as possible. You never know when a random site could become huge and your game could get featured on it. Personally I think this part is the most boring part, and most time consuming. However if you are trying to get your game played. Then this is the way to do it.

Why would you want to sitelock your site? Here are some quick reasons:

1. Make certain levels only playable on a specific site.

2. Make certain levels NOT playable on a specific site (If you have a grudge, or some marketing reason).

3. Make the entire thing only work on your site (not recomended)

#1 is the most important for most of us because it allows us to make games “sponsored by” a specific site. For example: you could create a game that has 100 levels. And levels 1-5 are available on all sites. However levels 6-100 are only playable on your “sponsored site”. On all other sites, when somone clicks to play levels 6 - 100, it would tell the player “Go to This site to play these levels”

A great tutorial teaching HOW to sitelock can be found here: How to sitelock a Flash movie