{"id":1186,"date":"2011-06-14T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/14\/interactive-media-flash-pt-1-introduction\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:17:00","slug":"interactive-media-flash-pt-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/14\/interactive-media-flash-pt-1-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Media: Flash, pt. 1 &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OS8iM6TTwe0\/TffefmBdV4I\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/nbNUgmHPqKA\/s1600\/flashIconBox.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 192px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OS8iM6TTwe0\/TffefmBdV4I\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/nbNUgmHPqKA\/s320\/flashIconBox.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618203694531958658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;ve been on the internet at all in the past five years, you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you&#8217;re not just interested in viewing Flash content, what if you&#8217;re interested in creating it?  If that&#8217;s the case you&#8217;re in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>For starters it&#8217;s important to understand what Flash is and what it can do.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>But there are a lot of other websites out there that feature Flash content.  For animation it&#8217;s worth looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/\">Newgrounds<\/a>.  There is a HUGE amount of Flash animation on this site and most of it is fairly well done.<\/p>\n<p>As for games the best place to see a lot of excellent Flash games is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinggames.com\/\">Addicting Games<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to learn how you can start churning out some animation or Flash games.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been on the internet at all in the past five years, you&#8217;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&#8217;re not just interested in viewing Flash content, what if you&#8217;re interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[104,106,144,151],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","tag-dms","tag-dms-help","tag-flash","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}