The types of Flash games that are now beginning to hit the Internet, closely emulate the old Console games of the ‘80’s. There are a lot of Tetris clones and PacMan rip-offs. But, these are just the experiments that need to be done to test out a new technology. The same thing happened with the PC: the first PC games were classics such as Solitaire (take a few minutes at lunch to walk round the office and count the number of people playing solitaire on their computers).Where Flash will take game developers is now beginning to materialize. Strangely, the first place we’ve seen Flash games developed is in the advertising arena. The new medium of online commercials is Flash. You can see it on sites such as Weather.com, CNN.com and C|NET.com. All of these sites leverage rich media advertising (a.k.a. Flash). Companies that have been very successful with interactive Flash advertising include VW, with their VW Beatles’ Flash Ads.You can also check out Websites such as Shockwave.com. Shockwave.com was once the last stand for Director developed games. Now you’ll find that many of the new games are developed with Flash.The next step developers can take with Flash today is to make Flash games interactive. This can be done with current Flash Player -– you can use with Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server or XML:Sockets to do this.thank!http://www.br3games.com
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The types of Flash games that are now beginning to hit the Internet, closely emulate the old
Console games of the ‘80’s. There are a lot of Tetris clones and PacMan rip-offs. But, these
are just the experiments that need to be done to test out a new technology. The same thing
happened with the PC: the first PC games were classics such as Solitaire (take a few minutes
at lunch to walk round the office and count the number of people playing solitaire on their
computers).
Where Flash will take game developers is now beginning to materialize. Strangely, the first
place we’ve seen Flash games developed is in the advertising arena. The new medium of online
commercials is Flash. You can see it on sites such as Weather.com, CNN.com and C|NET.com.
All of these sites leverage rich media advertising (a.k.a. Flash). Companies that have been
very successful with interactive Flash advertising include VW, with their VW Beatles’ Flash
Ads.
You can also check out Websites such as Shockwave.com. Shockwave.com was once the last stand
for Director developed games. Now you’ll find that many of the new games are developed with
Flash.
The next step developers can take with Flash today is to make Flash games interactive. This
can be done with current Flash Player -– you can use with Flash Remoting, Flash
Communication Server or XML:Sockets to do this.
thank!
http://www.br3games.com