Computer games can be traced back to the early 1950s and were getting popular after PCs were invented. People came into stores to buy PC games and installed to their local machines to play. After Internet came into our lives, people could buy the games online easily. The game developers were trying to find a way to create games on internet by using Java or other languages. But they were all not fit for game development because of the hard-coded or low efficiency.
Flash was introduced in 1996 and is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. It is a vector animation software, originally designed to create animations for display on web pages. Vector-based language is so lightweight that it is ideal for the web. With more and more controllable in flash, software programmers developed many online games and lots of flash game websites were created. People like playing them online without any download.
In summary, there are 7 reasons to make flash games popular.- Vector based language makes the flash files small. Majority of them are only several Mega bytes.
- Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform and the games are easier to be developed.
- No downloads and installations are needed for players.
- They are always free on the internet.
- The SWF files are easily transferred and embed in web pages.
- It is diversity and fit for all ages.
- It is always a trial version of a full game and it is easy to be converted from a full game.