my game in development "flash gordon" at the moment just uses the basic roger charcter as flash, my question is how do i create my own character, i have read the tutorial on animations, but it does not say what size to make my character, and how to load it into my game, is there a progrm avalible for character design?
You can make your character any size you desire, but in general, figure out the average size of the doors and other standard sized objects in your backgrounds, then work from there to determine the size. Many of mine use 30-70 pixels high, at 320 x 240.
There are tutorials for character design, but not any that I have had luck with. Animation Shop, from Jasc, is one of the easier programs to make characters with.
You import the frames into the sprite editor, make a view of the character, then set your character view to that view (in the character palette).
And read the BFAQ (http://bfaq.terran-x.com), this is covered in there.