Casuals: Flash games

One of the most respected and popularly used tools for making interactive content is Flash. It has grown considerably over the years as a game development platform. The earlier casual games that were played have been transformed into high tech, advanced games with the introduction of Flash. Flash games have been the mainstay of web entertainment for years and are easy to develop and addictive to play.

Flash is a great authoring tool for interactive content and integrates most features needed for making a game. An entire game play mechanic can be prototyped in a few hours, with great art, in an easily packaged form that runs on a PC, Mac, or Linux, through a web browser or standalone. The hierarchical visual object model in Flash is the main reason for this fast prototyping ability. Flash is ubiquitous and comes pre-installed with Windows on corporate machines. 96% of the users will not need to download anything except the game. It is one of the finest animation tools and the route to a web game from a deluxe game or vice versa is clear and direct in Flash. It allows easy conversion from a full game to a web version, or if going the other way, a natural path to take from web version to full downloadable game.

There are several types of free online Flash Games available today, which include sports, action, puzzle, adventure, arcade and racing games. The top 10 games using Flash are

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1. Bloons, created by Ninja Kiwi. Monkey which you operate, should amaze with darts for dart balloons which at each level form different figures.
2. Hotel Online, created by Realore Studios. Hotel management action game: keep your guests happy with room service, coffee, etc. or lose popularity. Download version of Jane's Hotel.
3. Bubble Struggle 2, created by Krešimir Cvitanović. Can one heroic piglet with a speargun defeat waves of falling balls?
4. Papa’s Pizzeria, created by Flipline Studios. Baking action: make money by cooking your pies on time with the right ingredients.
5. Fancy Pants Adventures 2, created by Borne Games. Cool platformer action with appealing visuals and stick-drawing animation — and my personal favorite from this list.
6. Tower Bloxx, created by Digital Chocolate. Another fave: construct a city of skyscrapers by dropping ready-made floors from cranes, but beware wobbly towers.
7. Cube Crash, created by Ocean Breeze Games. Score points by scooping up connecting rows of like-colored cubes.
8. Bricks Breaking, created by Novel Games, distributed by MindJolt Games. Near identical to Cube Crash (above), just less visually attractive.
9. Paris Oh Paris, created by Shaun’s Flights. Possibly NSFW (and definitely cheesy), toss greasy food at the famously annoying, underfed celebrity.
10. Stunt Dirt Bike, created by YouGame.com. Jump cars and other obstacles with your dirt bike in this 2-D side-scrolling game.

Flash or Download Games for Casino players?

The no download required casino games are called flash games. Flash games do not require you to download any software to play them so if you are at work or on a computer you can not download to you can still play these types of games. Flash Games will usually have better graphics because they don’t have to worry about keeping the program small enough to download.

Because they are played directly from the server where they reside they will usually be susceptible to internet traffic. This means if many people are on that server at one time the games will run very slow and the experience will not be fun, also flash games have less encryption on them. Also while you are playing it is constantly uploading and downloading info to your computer so you are using greater bandwidth while playing then a download game would. This is also true if you are trying to download other things from the internet at the same time you are playing the game. If you are playing a multiplayer flash casinos game you will find that there is sometimes lots of lag time and that is annoying for you and the other players you are playing with. No one realizes you are lagging and get frustrated because you are always holding up the game.

Download casino games are good for several reasons. They offer better protection for the player by using a more secure connection type with the server the casino is located on. Because they are running directly from your pc they will run faster and smoother. Also there is usually a better choice of games in a download casino then in a flash casino, plus with a download casino you can quickly switch from game to game. In a flash casino you would need to stop your connection and click to open another game.

When push comes to shove it all comes down to personal preference. Personally I feel safer using downloaded casino games, but I know many people that want to play roulette or blackjack from work and do not want to have the casino software on the company computer so they like the Flash Casinos.

One thing I have learned is that if you want to play the multi player games like poker in the Poker Rooms you have to use the flash casinos this is because you all have to log into the same server so you can all play together and to do it from a download game you would all have to play from one of the players computers.

I recommend you try both and see for yourself which one is better for you or if you even see a difference at all. Then you can make a more informed decision on which type of casino game you wish to continue to play.