Computer games have became very popular in today’s technology world. Especially children and adults are playing these games in a tremendous way. According to a recent survey conducted by an independent research firm in United States of America, it is been observed that more than sixty percent of adults are spending almost 10 hours a week in playing games. And according to the same research, the time consumption is going to increase by another 60% every year in the coming four years. Even the emerging markets like INDIA and China are also catching quite fast in this arena. So, the gaming market is really booming.
Flash, a product from Macromedia can be used in a very terrific way to program games. Flash games are also very popular all around the world. Flash games are mainly popular in the casual games arena. Flash can be used in a very extensive fashion to design graphic rich and interactive Flash games. However, to make games, which are very serious, flash was not a good option. But, the time has changed quite a lot.
Flash 7, the new version, also called MX 2004 at retail, is a modern interactive platform. Macromedia is betting on its power to design massive flash games. It has a very powerful design and animation authoring tool, an object oriented type safe dynamic scripting engine, bitmap rendering with anti aliasing and sub pixel precision, and advanced video and audio playback features. These features are proving really exceptional and helpful for developers to design graphic rich flash games.
One of the main advantages of the flash games is that the Flash is everywhere. For the web version of a game, 96% of the audience won’t need to download anything except the game. More importantly, many people won’t be able to install arbitrary ActiveX controls, or use a Java plug-in, whereas Flash is preinstalled with Windows on corporate machines.
Flash games are normally very easy to learn also when compared to their counter parts. Especially, for children, these flash games look quite interesting ads they need less or even no time to learn. They can play any flash game instantly.
However, the major problem with Flash games is their performance. Action Script can be very slow. Byte code execution is ok, probably on par with other scripting languages, but there is a significant problem with entry points. Setting up the execution context to call into the virtual machine and tearing it down again after a function exits is extremely expensive. Less expensive, but still significant, is a script-to-script function call.

Hence, if you can fine-tune the performance, then Flash is definitely a great option to develop games.
Kashish Arora is the author of this article on Flash

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Flash games are made from a software known as Flash. Flash was originally a Macromedia made software until they were bought out by Adobe, makers of such well known products as Photoshop and Illustrator. When Flash came out people thought it was just another idea and not be a big success. But when a very large and reputable company redid their website in Flash, people saw how fancy and high-tech it looked. Many other companies soon followed and began incorporating Flash into their websites.

Flash was not only used for making websites or making parts of websites look more professional. It was also used to make animated shorts in a cartoony way. But the biggest and probably the most popular use of Flash is to make Flash games. Flash games are made using most of Flashes features.

To make a Flash game you need graphics to animate. You can easily make them inside of Flash and all graphics made in Flash are vector. Vector means they won’t become pixilated when your make them larger or smaller. Then flash games need animations and movements of the different graphics and sounds to go with them. Flash makes animating your graphics very simple. The most important thing in making flash games is Action Script. Action Script is a programming language developed by Flash Software engineers to allow interactivity by the user when the file is being played. Game developers use Action Script to make the animations interactive with different events within the animation and by the person playing the game.

Flash based games have come a long way since the 90s. The Graphics are more realistic, game play is more fun and more advanced, games take more effort to beat, etc. And so many new games are being released every single day. These games are becoming more and more popular and some day in the near future they may be in higher demand than downloadable PC games.

Flash arcades are made because of the existence of flash games and arcade site try to provide as many of these games to their users as a resource for entertainment. Without the creation of Flash by Macromedia Flash games and arcades all over the internet may not exist today.

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Flash is an interactive platform that has a powerful design and animation tool along with a dynamic scripting engine, bitmap rendering, as well as advanced video and audio playback. There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. There is no need to adopt multiple programming languages to build games.

It is the universal tool that permits the development of multimedia driven complex games. Games means fast, furious, efficient with rich graphics.

Flash enables developers to build the most popular games for online gamers. It just needs to support:

• Rich engaging graphics.• Smooth download of files from the net.• A playback device that can interpret downloads.

There are three main areas: design, development, and hosting.

The first step is creation of graphics. One must use Fireworks as well as Freehand for this aspect. The tools are compatible and fireworks allows the addition of Java script to images.

The game development will be done in Flash by importing graphics created in Freehand and Fireworks. The graphics are then placed in Director the parent tool of Flash.

The next part, hosting, uses a Web server. Dreamweaver MX is the tool that will create Web pages to host the game.

And, finally Action Script is used to provide enhanced functionality.

Advantages:

• Integrates almost all features needed for developing a game. It is a great interactive tool.• Can be used anywhere does not need additional software or plug ins.• It is Mac friendly.• Permits conversion from a full game to web version and vice versa.• Low cost and free to distribute. Licenses for decoders MP3 and Sorensen Spark are included.• Artists that can use flash easily are in plenty.• Flash delivers broadcast quality images over the Internet. • Permits embedding of game in power point for use in presentations. • Plenty of information as well as guidelines can be accessed as well as understood by all -tutorials, articles, as well as blogs.• The size of the game file remains small as the vector graphics and sound files are compressed.• Learning Flash language is easy.• Permits copy-paste to test components

There are traps one must be wary of and a few cons. Know the system well to maximize its use. There are plenty of tutorials inline that can be used as guides. Flash interface is ideally suited to both designer as well as developer, you can have fun while creating the game.

Flash is simple to use and a game can be developed in a few hours in a packaged form that can run on a PC, Mac, or Linux. One can make use of a browser or run the game as a stand alone.