{"id":400,"date":"2008-08-03T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:23:38","slug":"6-reasons-why-people-play-flash-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/flash\/6-reasons-why-people-play-flash-games\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons Why People Play Flash Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Technical Reasons<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>They&#8217;re Free<span><br \/>\nThe main reason why people play flash games over better-developed industrial games is that they&#8217;re free. The only downside for the players is that advertisements are what make them free, which isn&#8217;t too bad of a downside depending on the person. This is why I strongly discourage making premium versions of flash games that cost money. They aren&#8217;t free anymore, and many people would reather buy a great console game at the same price.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re Easily Accessible<span><br \/>\nThis is another key reason that people play flash games. You can&#8217;t really lug your Xbox 360 everywhere you go. But, there are many computers or laptops that are accessible in many places with internet connection.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>They Have Low System Requirements<span><br \/>\nThis kind of fitst into the accessible point, but I&#8217;ll make it its own bullet. Not everybody has an amazingly fast computer. That&#8217;s why flash games are a good choice for them to place. They rarely exceed 10MB in size and rarely require that great of a computer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>The Mental Reasons<\/h3>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>To Relax and Reduce Stress<span><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a reason why another game for most flash games is casual games. They don&#8217;t stress you out, as some console games do. There are millions if not billions of stressed out people in the world. Flash games are a way to escape from it all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;d Rather Play Games than Something Else<span><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t count the number of times I see somebody playing a flash game when they&#8217;re supposed to be working. I&#8217;ll bet that if you work in front of a computer most of the day, you probably are guilty of this too. Don&#8217;t worry, it makes us game developers happier. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Communities are Formed Around Them<span><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve ever been a user at <a href=\"http:\/\/kongregate.com\">Kongregate<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/newgrounds.com\">Newgrounds<\/a>, then you should know what I&#8217;m talking about. Their communities are huge. Just visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/newgrounds.com\/bbs\">Newgrounds forum<\/a> and you&#8217;ll see. Everybody likes to interact with other people, and flash games can help connect them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technical Reasons They&#8217;re Free The main reason why people play flash games over better-developed industrial games is that they&#8217;re free. The only downside for the players is that advertisements are what make them free, which isn&#8217;t too bad of a downside depending on the person. This is why I strongly discourage making premium versions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[19,89,37,34,82,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}