Flash is still a great platform for developing games while HTML5 catches up in terms of a consistent cross platform experience. However I find the open source d

Flash is still a great platform for developing games while HTML5 catches up in terms of a consistent cross platform experience. However I find the open source development tools to be much more convenient. For e.g. FlashDevelop is an excellent IDE if don't require the animation tools. Haxe is a great strictly typed language that has a fast compiler targeting Flash.