Creating a Simple Video Game (How to do it)?

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I want to create a simple, educational video game that I can post on my student website for fellow students to look at and interact with. I don't want them to have to download files directly on their computer. I just want the game to be playable in the browser window. I want it to be in flash since it seems like the most popular medium. No Java! (Applets have a hard time loading on the school's computers).

I don't know any good graphics libraries. I have experience with programming (C++, and a university made graphics library only compatible with our computers) so I'm not an absolute beginner. I need to be able to have a graphics library or IDE that is free, and I can easily do on a linux based operating system. Any suggestions?

Why not try HTML5?
Cocos2D has a library (Im not exactly sure what they would call it in this case... Correct me if Im wrong) for HTML 5.

Good luck!
Cocos2D HTML5

Easy on Linux? Then in-browser probably isn't your best bet anyway. Perhaps you could trick them into using a chromium app? Or HTML5 (as suggested). You won't get much hand-holding in Linux environments though, consider yourself warned.

An easy way to do it is to learn by viewing examples(and doing). And the best examples are short codes. js1k.com has lots of games and programs made with javascript, and they are all 1024 bytes or less.

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