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

by Mochi Network

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.