Hey guys,

I want to make an adult RPG web browser game, pretty much text based (bar the odd image and all the little visuals for health, character, etc etc). I'm thinking that designing it with Adobe Flash Professional is the best bet, but I'm not sure is it... which is where I hope ye can help.

Is creating a flash game the best way to make an adult RPG mostly text based web browser game? Or are flash games mainly for visual heavy games?

Thanks a thousand

When you say "Text Based" do you mean that the user types in text like in an AIF, or do you mean the user clicks on things and the primary output is text?

I'd say that the undisputed king of sex rpgs is Leonizer, and he uses Flash. So that path is well worn. But flash is a declining system (the world is moving away from flash). If you need to learn flash from scratch to make your game, I'd suggest against it. Better to spend your effort learning something that will help you in the future. For that I'd suggest HTML5 and JavaScript. That way you can use what you learn on other efforts like website design, etc.

On the other hand, if you already know Flash and don't know HTML and JS, there's value in spending your time making the game rather than learning new technologies.

What's your background and what do you already know how to do?

Tlaero

As tlaero says, there's no real "one-best" answer. Some of it depends on how deep you want to go into coding versus only interested in the writing aspect. Another is what kind of game mechanics you want to incorporate. A choice between 3 options, progress... choose between 2 options, progress... etc game doesn't require the same tools as, say, a game incorporating an inventory system and equipping/removing various items.

Flash and html were mentioned, but there's also such things as tiddles (which is a wiki-like platform that has some game wrappers for it). Or, if web-based isn't a requirement, you also have things such as ren'py and RAGS (and other such engines).

If you are thinking of going down the HTML5 / Javascript route you may want to look into a game engine. I have been using one called Phaser which is really good and fun to use and contains some good templates and examples to get you started.

Twine is another tool for making text based games using HTML and Java-script.