Flash Game Research Articles

Music Syncing as Intermedial Translation

In this article I discuss the notion of intermedial translation in the context of audiovisual works. I begin by presenting Lars Elleström’s modality model as it provides the larger framework under which I then specify the scope of intermedial translation. After confronting different interpretation of the concept, I present my main contribution, which links this theoretical notion to the practice of music synchronization. I argue that the resulting approach provides a unique tool for the analysis of audiovisual artefacts. In order to further clarify this analytical perspective and prove its usefulness, I then proceed to apply it to artifacts created through a variety of software, ranging from music visualizers to video games. A look into 2006 Flash game Line Rider and the online community that spawned around it completes the article as my main case study.

Interactive Content as a Mean of Attracting an Audience on TV Sites

With the spread of new media, traditional media, such as TV faced a problem: how to attract and retain the audience and how to offer something new, that competitors do not have. And for a long time now even well-known and influential mass media have been using interactive content. The statement is that interactive content just for fun is no longer perceived. Interactive content includes quizzes, puzzles, crosswords, various polls, games, tests, quests, memories, interactive graphics, flash games, etc. Interactive elements in the media are used both separately and as a part of journalistic material. For the research of using interactive content in media, we examined the official sites of 30 channels in Ukraine, which belong to DTV and are translated for each region. In general, we have revealed 593 elements of interactive content on the sites of TV media. In the article, there were examined the kinds, types, themes, and amount of interactive content on each site of Ukrainian TV channels. It is investigated that such content can help to stay in touch with the audience and to popularize content that is broadcasted on the TV channel. Interactive media content has several obvious benefits, including the influx of new readers and, consequently, the growth of unique visitors, the growing number of people who talk about your media on social media and in real life, and the opportunity to draw attention to your television projects.

FEATURES OF LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOLERS WITH THE HELP OF FLASH GAMES

The article analyzes the problem of logical and mathematical development of senior preschoolers by means of flash games. The importance of mathematical education has been substantiated in accordance with the new educational realities: the needs of the implementation of the Concept for the development of natural and mathematical education (STEM education) and the new Concept for the development of preschool education. Since now mathematics, together with computer science, is becoming an interdisciplinary toolkit, and modern children feel free in the world of information technology, the authors of the article note that it is advisable to use network resources to benefit the educational process and ensure its quality. One of the options for such a network resource are flash games - game interactive platforms that optimize the game process in order to solve educational problems. The authors analyzed the views on the appropriateness of the use of flash games by preschoolers from such foreign scientists as Feliks Gorski, Alex Soares, Adelheid Reinhardt, David Nascimento, Gabriella Domeny, Mozilla Firefox, Peer Dorow, Benjamin Cooper, Zsuzsanna Csarnai Straub. The specificity of the experimental work, which involves two directions, is characterized. In the first educational - stage I is highlighted - propedeutic (criteria: abstraction with indicators - the ability to highlight the most significant characteristics of the object and exclude insignificant signs, where the flash game "Choose transport" was used; analysis with indicators - the ability to determine the relationship of an object and objects; to compare and analyze the data obtained; flash game: "Whose traces?"; synthesis with indicators - the ability to observe the laws of logic, build hypotheses and find out the consequences of reasoning; flash game "When does this happen?"); Stage II - implementation (criteria: classification with indicators - the ability to perform logical operations, deliberately argue them, formulate the grounds for classifying objects; flash games "The artist was mistaken", "Find a pair"; serialization with indicators - the ability to lay out a set of elements in accordance with the connections established between them; flash games: "Find a pair", "Logical connections", "In search of a shadow", "Into the forest for mushrooms", "Let's play snowballs", "Whose voice is heard on the farm?"); II direction - consulting: work with the teaching staff and with the parents of the pupils. The effectiveness of the work carried out was revealed using five diagnostic methods, carefully described in the article.

Enhancing Consumer Online Purchase Intention Through Gamification in China: Perspective of Cognitive Evaluation Theory.

The application of game elements of gamification in online shopping is attracting interest from researchers and practitioners. However, it remains unclear how gamification affects and improves consumer purchase intention on online shopping platforms, which still leaves a gap in our knowledge. To narrow this theoretical gap, a theoretical model has been built in this study. This model adopts cognitive evaluation theory to explain the impact of gamification elements on consumer purchase intention. Data was collected from 322 online shopping consumers who used a flash game to test their purchase intention after playing games. The results show that game rewards, absorption and autonomy of gamification positively enhance sense of enjoyment, and that it helps people meet their psychological needs, which ultimately affects the online purchase intention of consumers. This study is helpful in analyzing the factors involved in the successful introduction of gamification on online shopping platforms in more detail.

تنمية مهارة القراءة لدي الطلاب باستخدام لعبة " فلاش " (بحث تطويري في قسم تعليم اللغة العربية بالجامعة الاسلامية الفلاح السنية كنتشونج جمبر)

This research is based on the students weakness ability in reading Arabic text. It could be happened because learning activities and tecniques tend to be tedious. So they need a new way to make lesson not make them bored. The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of learning and increasing the ability of students to understand the Arabic texts through the use of the language game “Flash” at IAI Al-Falah As-Sunniyyah Kencong Jember. The researcher use R&D approach to apply this study. The results of this study are: First, the students can play the game “Flash” in developing their reading skill ability. Second, the teacher can reach the learning goal easily. Third, the flash game can develop the students reading skills effectively.

Growing old on Newgrounds: The hopes and quandaries of Flash game preservation

After December 2020, Adobe Flash, a technology that was once the standard for rich and interactive Web content, will no longer be supported in browsers. This means users will not be able to access the thousands of diverse creations powered by Flash, from animations to digital games. This is particularly problematic for games, which cannot be easily converted into a more modern format. The threat of losing the legacy of Flash has provoked both reflection and action by online communities dedicated to animation and browser-based games, none more so than Newgrounds, the Web portal credited with popularizing Flash games at the turn of the century. As a result, groups of enthusiasts have been able to make significant progress in preserving Flash games. Still, they continue to face numerous challenges, from rigid copyright laws to a relative lack of recognition of the importance of preserving Flash games as such. Consolidating their efforts by joining forces with other like-minded groups may be the key not only to saving digital heritage created with Flash, but also to the longer-term survival of these creator communities themselves.

Il fumetto digitale tra sperimentazione e partecipazione : il caso Homestuck = Digital comics halfway between experimentation and participation : the example of Homestuck

Digital comics that try to maximize the affordances of their medium seem to be condemned to in-betweenness: their strength (leveraging on unusual narrative potentials) often becomes their limit, and authors are hardly able to free themselves from the role of niche experimenters and open up to audience participation. A significant exception, however, is Homestuck, a gigantic webcomic by Andrew Hussie. Strongly connected to videogame culture and the very nature of the internet, Homestuck features animations, sounds, embedded flash games, and so on. The webcomic resulted in various transmedial branches (a videogame spin-off and several friendsims, a multi-volume soundtrack, a book epilogue) and an ongoing intermedial adaptation in book format. It has equally managed, over the years, to consolidate an extremely lively community active both in its interactions with the author (with a constant exchange of ideas and an endless readiness to subsidize his projects), in its interpretation of the canon production, and in providing an amazing extent of fan production. This contribution aims to analyze Homestuck as a possible mediation between the two inclinations (experimental and participated) of digital comics.

On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: two interventions in extractive colonialism

In light of the 10-year anniversary of the release of Minecraft, the wildly popular survival/building game, this retrospective considers the game as a vastly impactful digital text of settler colonialism. The ways in which the game’s ‘survival mode’ approaches the extraction of resources from land is fundamentally entangled in colonial fictions of indigeneity, gendered systems of property, and a Euro-humanist sense of entitlement and ownership. Considering Minecraft as a colonial text allows for two theoretical and aesthetic interventions: first, the visual art of Peruvian-American Eamon Ore-Giron, who challenges colonial extractivism in the two-channel piece, Morococha, and second, the 2006 flash game released by XGen Studies, Motherload, which approaches mining-based gameplay with key differences. These two interventions highlight the importance of digital realms as a terrain of colonial space-making and thus a site of analysis for cultural geographers. Moreover, they may help to chart useful paths to the production and realization of anti-colonial digital textuality.

Relationship of Internet gaming disorder with dissociative experience in Italian university students

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to investigate the prevalence of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) among Italian university students and (b) to explore the associations between the former and dissociative phenomena. The sample included 221 college students, 93 males and 128 females, aged between 18 and 25 (M = 21.56; SD = 1.42). They were asked to state their favourite games choice and were administered a demographic questionnaire, the APA symptom checklist based on the diagnostic criteria of IGD in the DSM-5, the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale Short Form (IGD9-SF) and the Italian version of dissociative experience scale for adolescents and young adults. The different game types used are distributed as follows: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (30%), flash games (26%), multiplayer games (24%), and online gambling (23%). The results of the study showed a high incidence of Internet gaming disorder risk in college students (84.61%). Specifically, our data confirmed the literature on the incidence of the male gender bias among online players (M = 28.034; SD = 2.213). Thirty-three subjects (31 male and 2 female) on 221 (14.9%) matched five or more criteria for clinical diagnosis of IGD. The data showed a positive correlation between Internet gaming disorder risk and some dissociative experiences: depersonalisation and derealisation (AbII/item6 r = .311; DD/item6 r = .322); absorption and imaginative involvement (AbII/item2 r = .319; AbII/item8 r = .403) and passive influence (PI/item3 r = .304; PI/item4 r = .366; PI/item9 r = .386). This study shedded light on psychopathological aspects that preceded the spread of IGD and encourages the implementation of a programmatic plan of preventative interventions by Italian public institutions, to prevent and tame the spreading of such addictive behaviours.

ANIMASI 3D PENDUKUNG SIMULASI FUNGSI FLIGHT CONTROLS DAN LANDING GEARS SUPRI SUKHOI SUPERJET 100

Animations are one of multimedia technology which can accelerate the perspective about something, including the aircraft flight controls and landing gears function. Production process of animation on 3 Dimensional Aircraft model Supri Sukhoi Superjet 100 using NURBS Modelling method. Production process of animation on 3 Dimensional Aircraft model Supri Sukhoi Superjet 100 using Pre Production, Production and Post Production, that the result can be presented in the form of simulation video, Flash game, and Powerpoint game. The special effect that added into model, video and game make it more attractive. The Results are tested on number of respondents who are Experts in the Aircraft Engineering. The Data showed that Almost to 100 percent of the components and fuctions of the aircraft.

The Effects of Gender, Age, and Experience on Game Engagement

Entertainment gaming research typically focuses on the underlying motivations for play and on the subjective experience. A review of the literature has identified three factors that commonly affect patterns of play: gender, age, and gaming experience. This paper examines whether these individual differences affect the subjective experience of play, as measured by game engagement. Participants played a browserbased Flash game and responded to a number of surveys. The results suggested that low-levels of game engagement predict high-levels of game engagement, providing support for a proposed model of game engagement that exists on a gradient. The ability to experience low-levels of engagement while playing games is not affected by the individual differences of interest; however high-level engagement did decrease with age. Age may also weaken the relationship between low- and high-level game engagement.

Better Birth through Games

Childbirth is a complex and multidimensional experience for the mother, riddled with unforgettable emotions and sensations. In today’s cultural climate in California, a mother’s primary attendant for social support throughout labor is usually her partner. Preparing the partner is an integral step to making sure that the mother is well-supported in her birth. Because the mother’s experience is influenced by the support she receives, and because birth partners need more support than is recognized, the author targets birth partners with a learning intervention. The author investigates video games as a vehicle for knowledge transfer to the birth partner, both as currently available and as a positive learning tool. To address the problem of limited access to childbirth preparation methods, especially for under-served Californians, the author investigated, designed, created, and evaluated two tools: The Prepared Partner and Digital Birth. The Prepared Partner is an online Flash game, and Digital Birth is a free iPhone application that is still undergoing revision and testing. Both games allow the user to practice various supportive actions in the realm of childbirth support for a mother in labor. The author found that players met the learning goals due to The Prepared Partner, and answered positively on the survey questions about their enjoyment of the game.

Exploring audience involvement with an interactive narrative: implications for incorporating transmedia storytelling into entertainment-education campaigns

The present article contributes to the growing corpus of scholarship that seeks to shed light on how the entertainment-education (EE) strategy can be implemented and evaluated across diverse media platforms. Because a transmedia approach to storytelling is a natural, albeit an understudied extension of the EE strategy, the researchers investigate how involvement with one interactive storytelling format, flash games, influences audience involvement and message outcomes. The researchers’ evaluation of audience involvement with an interactive narrative in a flash game, designed as one element of a national transmedia campaign to increase milk consumption, demonstrated that narrative understanding was related to participants’ (N=157) experiences of feeling involved with the game (i.e., transportation), although significant changes in message-related beliefs, attitudes and behavioural intentions were not related to transportation. Transportation was positively related to enjoyment of the game, but frustration with gaming challenges negatively influenced transportation and enjoyment. This study illustrates the need for further investigation of involvement with stories in interactive media platforms, and, most importantly, the continued exploration of the strengths and limitations associated with incorporating transmedia storytelling elements into EE campaigns.

Retracted: Computer‐aided ergonomics and visualization for improving 3D display techniques

AbstractAlthough there have been numerous studies regarding three‐dimensional (3D) display techniques and Flash technology, there has been little discussion of how to apply the 3D display technique to Flash applications. In this study, we develop a method that uses passive 3D display glasses, which are cheaper than other 3D display techniques, to reduce the cost and popularize this technique for web applications. The 3D red‐blue filter glasses are inexpensive and can be manufactured easily. We also look at how to construct a Flash game and test its 3D effects using the red‐blue filter glasses. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Real-world Flash game development: how to follow best practices and keep your sanity

This book covers Flash for the everyday developer. The average Flash developer doesn't have luxurious timelines, employers who understand the value of reusability, or the help of an information architect to design a usable experience. This book helps bridge the gap for these coders who may be used to C++, Java, or C# and want to move over to Flash. Griffith covers real-world scenarios pulled from his own experiences developing games for over 8 years in the industry. Gifts from Griffith's real-world experiences include: game design templates and pre-written scripts to automate tasks within Flash; classes for handling common math computations used in gaming, so that game developers can see how to set up a simple game flow; and, powerful debugging tools for your games(debuggers for Flash games are hard to come by, and this book provides them for you). The associated web site offers: code from the game examples in the book with fully build-able source files; additional code snippets, classes, and utilities; scripts for automating tedious and repetitive tasks within Flash; template game-design documents for planning game proposals in the same manner outlined in the book; and, links to other helpful online resources for both Flash and game development. The book: teaches Flash users the most effective ways to leverage Flash as a game development tool; offers concrete, relatable approaches to Flash game development; provides sound strategies, and realistic goals for success - with real-world examples and code included so that programmers become quickly empowered to make their own Flash games; and, covers all the aspects that come into play when developing a game in Flash, including art, animation, scripting, and optimization.

Bubble Journey: Multimodal Input Tools Design to Augment Sense Experience in Computer Game

In this paper, we discuss a novel approach to multimodal input design in Tangible User Interface (TUI). We present a prototype Bubble Journey, a game platform where users control the avatar in flash game by blowing a real handle. This computer game was combined multimodal input tool embedded sensor, which augment experience of user’s (children’s) five senses and body into game’s digital world with previous experience in daily life. Sensor embodied in multimodal input tool can convert data of sounds and movements produced by users (children) into digital signals to manipulate the virtual characters’ performance in the game.

Rock Mars: cross-industry collaboration on a rich media educational experience

Rock Mars is a transmedia-experience produced for educational use. The project is the educational arm of the Discovery Channel Canada “Race to Mars” initiative: an exhaustively-researched, hard-science-based documentary and mini-series. Rock Mars blends an episodic graphic-novel storyline and Alternate Reality Game-inspired approach with video games, curricular content and commercially-produced media to make a formal, in-school experience. The project uses a six-episode storyline to motivate students through a scalable collection of Flash games, group-work puzzles, design/artwork, debates and cross-curricular engagement drawn from the Pan-Canadian Science and, more generally, the Ontario intermediate-grade guidelines. This paper will discuss Rock Mars as project that cuts across educational, academic, commercial and industrial modalities, and will explore transmedia as a tool for integrating commercial media with educational content.

Intrinsic motivation: "flOw," video games, and participatory culture

Through a comparison of the free online Flash game updated for PlayStation 3 to World of Warcraft, I investigate participatory culture in the game community. The question of why people pursue activities that offer no monetary or similar reward is answered in part by analyzing fan-produced game modifications or mods.

AJAX, rich Internet applications, and Web development for programmers

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