Any Teams/Schools Have A "Game Development" Club?

[Jogo]

If you are hoping to profit, I highly recommend working in Flash. It is definitely accessible for high school students, and the casual game market is doing well. Even simple puzzle games can go for upwards of $1000 if they are addicting, and with a large enough group can be a 1 or 2 week project. Actionscript 2.0 and up is a full-fledged object oriented programming language not much different than Java or C++, and it is pretty easy to work with.

Sponsorships can be achieved by contacting sites directly, or using flashgamelicense.com.

[hipsterjr]

342 started something like this in 2009. It is called Summer Pygames. Students use Python to develop educational games for the XO laptops.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=team+342

[MattSr]

Originally Posted by Jogo

If you are hoping to profit, I highly recommend working in Flash. It is definitely accessible for high school students, and the casual game market is doing well. Even simple puzzle games can go for upwards of $1000 if they are addicting, and with a large enough group can be a 1 or 2 week project. Actionscript 2.0 and up is a full-fledged object oriented programming language not much different than Java or C++, and it is pretty easy to work with.

Sponsorships can be achieved by contacting sites directly, or using flashgamelicense.com.

I have programmed in a number of languages but surprising to even myself I have never wandered into Flash, any chance that there is some free software out there that is decent to learn on?

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by MattSr

I have programmed in a number of languages but surprising to even myself I have never wandered into Flash, any chance that there is some free software out there that is decent to learn on?

http://www.sothink.com/product/swfquicker/index.htm

[Jogo]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

http://www.sothink.com/product/swfquicker/index.htm

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php is another good flash animation tool.

Both of these are okay for the animation side. For a solid programming IDE and compiler, go with Flash Develop: http://www.flashdevelop.org