If you’ve been on the internet at all in the past five years, you’ve used flash. Most of the time it manifests itself as the Flash Player, a plugin for your browser which allows you to view Flash content online.
But what if you’re not just interested in viewing Flash content, what if you’re interested in creating it? If that’s the case you’re in the right place.
For starters it’s important to understand what Flash is and what it can do.
Flash is a development environment acquired by Adobe when they bought Macromedia. It allows users to do two distinct things: animate and create interactive media (usually games). Flash is also the basis for many popular websites, YouTube, most notably.
But there are a lot of other websites out there that feature Flash content. For animation it’s worth looking at Newgrounds. There is a HUGE amount of Flash animation on this site and most of it is fairly well done.
As for games the best place to see a lot of excellent Flash games is Addicting Games.
Stay tuned to learn how you can start churning out some animation or Flash games.