Flash-based indie development community Kongregate has taken the next step in nurturing up and coming game makers.

The company said Tuesday that it has launched Kongregate Labs, a new branch of the site's community that offers community-supported tutorials for Flash game development.

CEO Jim Greer told Edge that the tutorials, dubbed "shootorials," are deeper than the average "drag-and-drop" game creator.

"We decided to offer something that would introduce you to using Flash as a whole," he said. "It's also about trying to deepen peoples' engagement with the site."

Kongregate offers user-developed games and community features to keep gamers and developers connected. Developers share ad and microtransaction revenue from their games.

The company also said it landed one of its biggest ad sales so far with an eight-week sponsorship from Toyota's youth-oriented brand Scion.

The eight tutorials are free to use and begin with the downloading of the free trial version of Adobe Flash CS3 to boss and user interface design. Kongregate said it will initially release several tutorials each week.

Greer said using the shootorials require some commitment and solid interest in game development. "It might take you a full day to go through the tutorials, but if you're talking about making your own game, it'll be days and days and days of work, probably," he said. "But at least you'll have a guide, not to mention a community."

Each tutorial has its own dedicated chat channel where developers can exchange tips.

"We think Web browser games are always going to be the most immediate and direct way for people to play games. A lot of people live in a Web browser most of their day," Greer said.