Thursday, March 19, 2009
Multiplayer Flash games
Why are there so few multiplayer Flash games? Sure, lots of Flash games have a leaderboard or high score table. One of my favorite games, Fantastic Contraption, has some very cool community features. But I've seen very few Flash games that let you interact with other players in real time.
Flash has traditionally been excellent for little solitaire games that you play in your browser: match-3, tower defense, platformers.
Flash and its programming language ActionScript have full support for socket-level communication. A great strength of Flash as a client platform is that most users can try a new multiplayer game without having to download or install anything. Alex and I have built several multiplayer game demos which use Flash as the client with a C++ server.
We are starting to see a few free-to-play Flash MMOs in development, so perhaps this state of affairs is coming to an end. But for now multiplayer Flash games remain an underserved market.
Flash has traditionally been excellent for little solitaire games that you play in your browser: match-3, tower defense, platformers.
Flash and its programming language ActionScript have full support for socket-level communication. A great strength of Flash as a client platform is that most users can try a new multiplayer game without having to download or install anything. Alex and I have built several multiplayer game demos which use Flash as the client with a C++ server.
We are starting to see a few free-to-play Flash MMOs in development, so perhaps this state of affairs is coming to an end. But for now multiplayer Flash games remain an underserved market.
# posted by Rob : 1:06 PM
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