Introduction to Flash Games

Author: Ann

One of the most respected and popularly used tools for making interactive content is Flash. It has grown considerably over the years as a game development platform. The earlier casual games that were played have been transformed into high tech, advanced games with the introduction of Flash. Flash games have been the mainstay of web entertainment for years and are easy to develop and addictive to play.


Flash is a great authoring tool for interactive content and integrates most features needed for making a game. An entire game play mechanic can be prototyped in a few hours, with great art, in an easily packaged form that runs on a PC, Mac, or Linux, through a web browser or standalone. The hierarchical visual object model in Flash is the main reason for this fast prototyping ability. Flash is ubiquitous and comes pre-installed with Windows on corporate machines. 96% of the users will not need to download anything except the game. It is one of the finest animation tools and the route to a web game from a deluxe game or vice versa is clear and direct in Flash. It allows easy conversion from a full game to a web version, or if going the other way, a natural path to take from web version to full downloadable game.


There are several types of free online Flash Games available today, which include sports, action, puzzle, adventure, arcade and racing games. The top 10 games using Flash are

  1. Street Rally
  2. Flash Crisis
  3. Bomb it
  4. Bubble Shooter
  5. MahJong Connect
  6. Kid Adventure
  7. Super Mario 64
  8. China Open Tennis
  9. Maple Story
  10. Crazy Arcade

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