What if you are a flash game enthusiast but getting bored eventually with the game sources you already have? Or you know a lot of cool flash game websites that you can hang out but sometimes wonder whether you can play those flash games offline? It still makes sense even you have the idea that to share the way how you play the flash game with more friends on Internet.

All right, let us break those hassles down one by one. First, the recommendations of some nice flash game websites. You may notice that the flash game websites we have picked here are presented by a free and handy flash game downloader, which will be discussed later in the second part of this blog.

Flash Game Website Recommend #1 www.bored.com: Your home for fun games. This website is equipped with hundreds of flash games that you can play for free, every day!

Flash Game Website Recommend #2 www.armorgames.com: Flash games from different categories, the site comes along with easy navigations like Web Game, Site News, Player Ranking, New Game and so on.

Flash Game Website Recommend #3 www.bubblebox.com:

Flash Game Website Recommend #4 www.epic-ninja.com:

Flash Game Website Recommend #5 www.newgrounds.com: The large Flash games and animation site that spawned Alien Hominid, has been accepting user-produced submissions since 1999.

Second, way to download flash games from above sites so that you can play offline and at any time you want. This is one of the most useful applications that appreciated a lot by flash game fans. Just use the mentioned flash downloader and enter the webpage URL where your desired flash content is embedded.

Third, for those who want to share the recipe of how to play the flash game on Internet. Well, it sounds not that complicated. All you need is a good SWF to video converter. Choose to generate any popular video format from the original SWF file, play the game as you usually do during the capture process, and then upload the converted game recipe to famous video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, etc. for easy sharing.

This blog entry is going to be the last one of our Flash Schools and Flash Tutorials series and you can review the previous 5 blog entries by clicking here.

There are two parts of this blog, the first one is going to introduce the easy steps to achieve Flash animation and the second one is going to teach you how to audiolize the Flash animation you just created in a simple way as well.

Animate Your Flash

Step 1: Insert a text in the upper left corner of the Stage area. Write some text in the “textarea”.

Step 2: Use the arrow tool from the left toolbar to select the text.

Step 3: Convert the text to a symbol. Name the symbol “text”, choose graphic from the Behavior list and select OK.

Step 4: Go to Frame 30 in the Timeline, right click in this field to choose Insert Keyframe.

Step 5: Click on the Timeline any place between Frame 1 and Frame 30. Then right click and choose Create Motion Tween.

Step 6: Go back to Frame 30 in the Timeline. Move the text to the lower right corner. Choose Modify > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

Step 7: Choose Control > Test Movie from the top menu to test your Flash movie. The text should move from the first location (in frame 1) to the second location (in frame 2). The text should also turn around on its way to the second location.

Audiolize Your Flash

Step 1: Choose File > Import to import a sound file.

Step 2: Click in the first frame of “Layer 1″ in the Timeline. Choose Window > Panels > Sound from the top menu.

Step 3: In the pop up window (Sound) choose the sound you imported in the Sound field. Choose Stream in the Sync field. Close the pop up window.

Step 4: Go to frame 50 in the Timeline. Right click and choose Insert Frame.

Step 5: Choose Control > Test Movie from the top menu to test your Flash movie.

In the end, we hope these 6 blog entries can help you to establish a basic structure of Flash, including what is Flash, how Flash works, how to embed Flash, Flash tweening methods, Flash button creation and how to animate or audiolize Flash. You can also check other Flash tools to get inspired. Enjoy!

Get bored with just plain text and tables in Excel? Wanna add a little bit varieties and animations to make it vivid and alive? No problem, the step-by-step tutorial below will tell you exactly how to achieve that in the simplest way.

Step 1: Open a new Excel file or an existing one. (PS: Excel 2010 is available now and it is said very good with new features like Web Apps and visual effects.)

Step 2: Click “Developer” tab, choose “Insert“, then “ActiveX Controlbar“.

Step 3: Click “other Active X” in the “ActiveX Controlbar“, select “Shockwave Flash Object” from the list.

Step 4: Right click the inserted Flash Active X, select “Property“.

Step 5: Input the Flash absolute path and name in “Movie” field. Set the value in “EmbedMovie” field as “True“, and keep the default values in “Height“, “Width” and “Scale” fields.

Note: If you change the default value in “Scale” field from “ShowAll” to “NoScale“, the inserted Flash will keep the original ratio(1:1).

Step 6. Click the “Design Mode” button on Active X tab, Excel will start to play the inserted Flash. Click this button again to enter “Design Mode” where you can continue to edit the target Flash.

Note: If temporarily you can not see the Flash, please close the Excel file after saving, and reopen it, click “Design Mode” button to try it again.