AN introduction to flash, its history and what all is there for the future.

1. INTRODUCING
FLASH
“Its more than fancy games”

2. History
 May of 1996
 Jonathan Gay
 Future Splash Animator

3. "If you ever think Flash is difficult to use, you
should try drawing with a joystick on an Apple
II before the concept of undo was invented.
That will test your patience."
Jonathan Gay, Creator of Flash

5.  October of 1995 they tried selling the software
technology to John Warnock at Adobe.
 of 1996, Macromedia acquired the company
and Future Splash Animator became
Macromedia Flash 1.0.
 2006, Adobe acquired Flash

7. Why do people play games?
 Core Gamers: main form of entertainment
(maximize gaming time)
 Status Gamers: pride
 Social Gamers: communal experience (play
with people they care, forming social
link, coordinate social function around gaming)
 Active Gamers: use gaming as a physical
release.
 Casual Gamers: use gaming as an emotional
release and as a way to play different roles.

8. Where is the money?
 1.1 billion monthly visitors playing online
games.
 by 2013, the online games market will grow to
$1.6 billion.

9. Flash Business Model
Developers Publishers End User

10. Selling Flash Games
 1. Fastest Sale Time: 0 days (the same day it
became visible) . A couple games have done this.
 2. Average Sale Time: 19 days after the game
has been set to visible to sponsors until the time
the bid is accepted.
 3. Average Exclusive-License Sale Price:
$1960.75 (This number is offset by a few REALLY
big exclusive sales)
 4. Average Primary-License Sale Price: $939.30
(Again, this is slightly distorted by large sales, but
not as much)
 5. Total Number of Deals Made: 799

11. What can flash do?
Adobe revolutionizes
how the world
engageswithideas
and information

12. Flash creates Content
 Animation
 Videos
 Websites
 Games
 Applications

13. Animation
 Frames
 Layers
 MovieClips

14. Videos
 FLV Format
 Interactive Videos

15. Websites
 Interactive Micro sites
 HTML based websites(Embedded flash
content)

16. Games
 Single Player
 Multiplayer
 Social games

17. Applications
 Flex
 Why Flex?
 Desktop applications
 Web based applications

18. Lets make Games!
 MDA frameworks
 How to plan your game?
 Optimization is the key!

19. Development process of a game
 Graphics
 Vectors
 Rasters
 Sound
 wav
 mp3
 Code (ActionScript 3.0)
 Compile! (For any platform you want!)

20. Platforms
 Web
 Mobile
 Desktop
 Tablets
 Touch devices
 Consoles
 Kinect
 Arduino (Micro Controllers)

21. API are the treasures!!
 “Hundreds of API’s that help you do anything
and everything. What makes it more impactful
is a well groomed strong community of
flashers and flash user groups around the
world.”

22. API demo’s
 Box2D Demo
 http://www.box2dflash.org/
 Flixel
 Stage3D Demo
 http://www.nissan-stagejuk3d.com/
 Starling Demo
 http://gamua.com/starling/demo/
 TweenMax Demo
 http://www.greensock.com/tweenmax/
 Flint Demo
 http://flintparticles.org/blog/examples

23. Programming Practices
 Clean and readable code
 Reusable code
 MVC Frameworks
 PureMVC
 Robotlegs

24. Thank you!!