
You get to it a little bit differently in each operating system’s UI, but the menu is the same either way.) At the bottom of the screen, you’ll see a little link that says “ Show advanced settings…” Click on that. (This is called “Preferences” on a Mac, and “Settings” on a Windows machine. Did the game load? If not, then follow these steps. Fignermukcre (Trollcore Enterprises, 2014).The End of Us (Chelsea Howe and Michael Moriani, 2011).The Artist Is Present (Pippin Barr, 2011).Points of Entry (Persuasive Games, 2008).McDonald’s Video Game (Molleindustria, 2006).Here are some browser-based games built in Flash, which I have assigned for students, and sometimes talked about on this very blog:

Across the board, browsers are moving toward a “suspicion-by-default” attitude towards embedded Flash objects. Mozilla, too, has made moves to make Flash “click-to-enable” in Firefox, and may soon go Google’s route of disabling it by default. But this decision on Google’s part-while completely understandable from the standpoint of security-has introduced headaches for students who use Chrome as their primary browser when it comes to some games I frequently assign for classes. As a practical matter, Flash has been waning in favor of HTML5 for years now. For the first time in the browser’s history, Flash is disabled on most sites by default. In December 2016, Google released Chrome version 55. Newgrounds and Kongregate built empires off of the platform. It is a practical, logistical resource to take a peek at when a browser-based game doesn’t work.įor years, Adobe Flash was the undisputed king of online, browser-based gaming.

If those previous two sentences don’t mean anything to do: Congratulations! You are like most people.

The plug-ins that used to define the landscape of the internet-Flash, in particular-are a dying breed.

I’ve decided to migrate it to a blog post, however, for logistical reasons. Some of this material used to be over in the “ Practical Pedagogical Notes on Games” section of the site.
