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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