So you want to get serious about making flash movies and games? Great! The way to get good is with fast iteration. What I mean by "iteration" is the time it takes to make a change to your game, build the game, test your game and decided if you need to make another change.

For the most part, it’s easy to iterate with flash, you just test your movie and there you go. What I’m talking about is more advanced flash movies. I’m talking about passing parameters from the page to your swf (mygame.swf?var1=1&var2=2), calling javascript from your swf (ExternalInterface), and swf’s getting loaded in other swf’s (and you can pass params to the child swf). Basically, there comes a time when just running the movie on your computer isn’t good enough and the only way to really test your swf files is by uploading them to a server and viewing them in a browser connected to the web. After all, isn’t that how your audience is going to see it? So let’s not waste time. Here are the things you’ll need to know in order to iterate quickly when building flash movies/games.

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