A flash game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games using Adobe Flash. Developers sometimes specialize in a particular genre that they are most skilled at creating or ones that they most enjoy playing. Flash game developers are most commonly independent.

Independent developers are small software developers that are not owned by or beholden to a single publisher. Some of these developers self-publish their games, relying on the Internet and word of mouth for publicity. Without the huge marketing budgets of mainstream publishers, their products never get as much recognition or popular acclaim as those of larger publishers such as Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. However, they are free to explore experimental themes and styles of gameplay that mainstream publishers would not risk their money on.