Cell Your Flash Game with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com

Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com are proud to host a very special contest exlusively for members of FGL. Create or port a game for mobile Flash platforms and you could win fabulous prizes - not to mention open a whole new world of players and profit.

Prizes

• 1st - $2,600 + Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection ($2,600 value)
• 2nd - $1,600 + Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection ($2,600 value)
• 3rd - $1,100 + Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection ($2,600 value)
• 4th-8th - $100 + Adobe Flash Professional CS5 ($699 value) + 50 FGL first impressions
• 9th-10th - $100 + 50 FGL first impressions
• 11th-150th - $100

In addition to these fabulous prizes, all qualifying entries will be featured on a new mobile-friendly gaming portal, and the top 10 games will be prominently displayed and promoted there for at least three months.

Since Adobe will be marketing this new mobile portal, you know it will get some serious attention from players. So not only do you have the opportunity to win prizes and money outright, but you can also start building a loyal audience of players in an exciting new market!

Enter Cell Your Flash Game with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com

Mochi Made For Mobile Contest With Adobe

Create games for the Android mobile platform that run in Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 for a chance to win. We have more than $15,000 in cash prizes up for grabs (plus free copies of Adobe CS5 given to the top 3 entries) AND contest submissions will be showcased on Mochi Media’s mobile-optimized site MochiGames. The Made for Mobile Contest comes after the recent release of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for mobile, which allows games built with the Flash Platform to be played on the Android mobile platform for the first time.

"We are very excited Mochi Media is bringing this contest to the game development community," said Ricky Liversidge, vice president of marketing, platform business at Adobe. "Talented developers can now take advantage of the latest Flash Player 10.1 features to reach consumers across mobile and other devices."

Contest submissions will be judged on game criteria including aesthetics, usability, performance, creativity and coding quality. Submissions are due by midnight on September 24, 2010. Winners will be announced in early October.

Enter Mochi Made For Mobile Contest With Adobe

Mobile Flash Game Contest with Adobe and Kongregate

Kongregate is going mobile - Adobe and Kongregate are working together to bring you the Mobile Flash Game Contest with Adobe Flash, which we're giving away over $20,000 in prizes! We are hoping to engage users with fun games as part of a rich Internet experience that work seamlessly across any device anywhere.

Quality games entered in the contest will be added to a growing list of the many Flash-based mobile games already on Kongregate's Mobile Site for Android phone users to play.

• 1st place: $5,000 USD + Adobe Creative Suite® 5 Web Premium
• 2nd place: $3,000 USD + Adobe Creative Suite® 5 Web Premium
• 3rd-5th place: $1,500 USD each + Adobe Creative Suite® 5 Web Premium
• 10 runner-ups: $750 USD each

Enter Mobile Flash Game Contest with Adobe Flash

3rd Independent Developer Competition with $100000 Prize

It's time for the third contest - 3rd Independent Developer Competition for game developers from indiePub with $100,000 grand prize!

Game developers everywhere are invited to create and submit their original titles from May 1st through July 31st, 2010.
The Grand Prize winner gets a $100,000 cash prize and the option for a publishing deal with Zoo Games. Experts and indie developers will determine the winner. Also you can win one of the other 6 cash prize categories!

Wanna get in? Here's what you do:

• Submit your game here between May 1st and July 31st.
• Use feedback from the indiePub site to make your game better throughout the submission period. YOU CAN RESUBMIT YOUR GAME AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE!
• Get your friends to play and vote for your game, starting August 1st, to become the Community Favorite!
• Become friends with indiePub on Facebook to get contest updates.
• Winners will be announced on September 14th.

Enter Game Developers Contest

Adobe Events: Build an app in a week

Wow, cool events from Adobe are coming: Build an app in a week

Build an app in a week is intended to teach you about the Adobe® Flash® Platform, including Adobe® Flex®, Adobe® Flash® Builder™, Adobe® AIR®, Adobe® Flash® Player, and how it integrates with Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 technologies. This weeklong event features free, live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions.

Who should attend?

• Web designers
• Web developers
• Application developers
• Rich Internet Application developers
• Interactive design specialists

What you will learn

By attending this e-seminar series you will be able to create your own Rich Internet Application at the end of the week, using all the power of Flash Platform, in combination with the device and technology of your choice.

Programm of Adobe Build an app in a week

• Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design
• Connecting your design to PHP services
• Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4
• Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project
• Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1
• Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services
• Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0
• Code once and run on multiple mobile devices
• EXTRA SESSION: Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps with ColdFusion

Flash GAMM Moscow 2010

Flash GAMM 2010 Moscow - The Fourth Conference Of Flash Game Developers and Publishers.
The conference is to take place on May 13, 2010 (Thursday), a day before KRI in the International Exhibition Center «Crocus Expo».

Flash GAMM is the meeting on professional flash games development which purpose is to share experience, contacts and ideas.

First of all, this is the meeting for producers, programmers, and game artists, other representatives of game industry and for investors.

Flash GAMM is hours of close intercourse between representatives of different countries and specializations. It is not a conservative conference but the meeting of relaxed format aimed on realization of various talents as well as yours.

Who is it ment for?

• flash programmers
• game artists and animators
• game designers
• producers
• distributors
• investors
• flash game portals
• flash ad networks

Participation fee

Standard Registration
If paid before April 21 – 25$
If paid after April 22 – 50$

Premium Registration
If paid before April 21 – 50$
If paid after April 22 – 75$

Corporate Registration for companies
If paid before April 21 – 200$
If paid before April 21 – 400$

More details here...

Exclusive global launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5

Good news: Adobe Launch Creative Suite 5 Monday, April 12, 2010 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST.

You can join online for the exclusive global launch of Adobe at cs5launch.adobe.com

Debugging Flex and PHP Projects

Join Mihai Corlan while he goes through the basics of debugging a Flex and PHP application. He will talk about the new features of Flash Builder 4 that can help you while debugging and he will show how you can use Flash Builder 4 with Eclipse PDT and XDebug to ensure a bug free project.

The presentation will take about 45 minutes, leaving 15 minutes to answer any questions you might have on this subject.

Webinar is free and you can join it here