What is free online flash games? by Will Nilson
What is online flash games?
Most of todays commercially popular games are huge monsters that are deployed on several CD's or on DVD, feature tons of high quality graphics and music and have the latest top notch 3D engine that allows all kinds of freedom.
Internet games (also known as online games) are games that are played online via the Internet. They are distinct from video and computer games in that they are normally platform independent, relying solely on client-side technologies (normally called 'plugins'). Normally all that is required to play Internet games are a web browser and the appropriate plugin (normally available for free via the plugin maker's website). A game played in a browser is often called a browser-based game.
As the World Wide Web developed and browsers became more sophisticated, people started creating browser games that used a web browser as a client. Simple single player games were made that could be played using a web browser via HTML and HTML scripting technologies (most commonly JavaScript, ASP, PHP, and MySQL). More complicated games would contact a web server to allow a multiplayer gaming environment.
The development of web-based graphics technologies such as Flash and Java allowed browser games to become more complex. These games, also known by their related technology as "Flash games" or "Java games", became increasingly popular. Many games originally released in the 1980s, such as Pac-Man and Frogger, were recreated as games that could be played using the Flash plugin on a webpage. Most browser games have limited multiplayer play, often being single player games with a high score list shared amongst all players.
Flash games is streaming animation games for web pages. Sometimes Flash is a portion of an html web page, and sometimes a web page is made entirely of Flash. Either way, Flash files are called "Flash movies". These are special .swf format files that beam to your web browser screen as you watch them. Flash games requires a special free plugin (modification) to your browser before you can play Flash games. Flash offer two very special web browsing experiences: very fast loading, and vector animation with interactivity.
Flash can be used to create interactive rich media content (including text, photos, music, video, vector graphics, voiceover, and a wide variety of motion graphic effects and animation) to be displayed in a browser. By producing a compiled Flash movie and an html page which embeds that movie and uploading both to a web server, the content is made viewable to a site visitor via a Flash browser plugin. Flash can also be used to create executable files, to be played from a CD or from the desktop of either a PC or a Mac, without requiring any additional software (the Flash player is embedded in the executable).
Flash allows a much higher level of complexity in online games. It frequently allows players to use a wide variety of weapons and objects, and can supply much more detailed maps and settings.
The rising popularity of Flash and Java led to an Internet revolution where websites could utilize streaming video, audio, and a whole new set of user interactivity. When Microsoft began packaging Flash as a pre-installed component of IE, the Internet began to shift from a data/information spectrum to also offer on-demand entertainment. This revolution paved the way for sites to offer games to web surfers.
Many online games have associated online communities, making online games a form of social activity beyond single player games.
Some examples of powerful Online Flash Games web pages:
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* Funny videos, pictures and more! Looking to add fun games or funny videos to your blog, or myspace profile? Simply visit the content you want, look below the game/video and copy it straight to your profile.
* Please note, above flash games are the newest online games and not download games. If you did not have a chance to catch all new flash games visit Games Download section. Enjoy the new Flash Game Site while we work on improving gamer community and adding flash and download games.
William Nilson, programmer of some flash games and author of some videos clips
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