Downloading Flash Games

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-play-flash-games-offline/ How To Download and Play Flash Games Offline Dec. 16th, 2008 By Aibek 30971 Subscribers join now via EMAIL or RSS Do you like to play flash games online? Have you ever wondered if there is a way to download those flash games to your computer and play them on your desktop without seeing distracting ads ? Here we’ll show you how to do just that. First how to download flash games to your PC and then how to play them offline. So if you’re hooked on some addictive flash game this guide should help you get it offline and play it on your desktop. MakeUseOf Articles How To guides, software reviews, cool website round ups etc. Directory of Apps Browse Web Apps and Mobile Tools by category. 1. Download Flash Games Downloading flash games to your PC is a fairly easy process and there are lots of ways to do it. One way to get the game file is to look inside the page’s source code and find the direct link to the game file on the site. Another option is to wait for the game to load in your browser and later get it from the temporary files folder of your browser. Or you can just go to the site called File2HD and let it get the game file for you. We have already featured it earlier as a MP3 and video download tool for Myspace. File2HD can help you download flash games from most of the online gaming sites. That being said, it doesn’t work with Kongregate, one of the best sites for Flash games. Althou I had no problems getting flash games from hugely popular sites like AddictiveGames. So how does it work: 1. Go to the page with the flash game you want to download. 2. Copy the page URL and paste it into File2HD. 3. Set ‘Filter’ to ‘Objects’ option and click on ‘Get Files’ button. Geeky Fun Fun screenshots and videos for web geeks. Categories Browsers / Addons Cool Websites How-To Tips Mac Gaming Polls Cool Software Lists of Tools Windows Linux Mobile Apps Podcast Become a MakeUseOf Writer Submit Your Web App 4. Next, File2HD should retrieve the direct link to the game file. 5. Right click on the link an use ‘Save Link As’ option to save the game to your computer. 2. Play Flash Games Offline Once you have the game files on your system you can use a simple freeware program called FlashOffliner (Windows only) to take those raw .swf flash files, turn them into playable games, and neatly organize them under one menu. Here are the steps you need to do: 1. Download and Install FlashOffliner. The FlashOffliner setup comes with 2 games by default and 3 more that can be added later. If you want to install them as well then check step 4. 2. Once you have FlashOffliner up and running, you should see a new icon in the taskbar. Right click on the icon to see the list of available games and program options. 3. It takes two steps to add a downloaded flash game to your FlashOffliner games list. The first thing you need to do is click on the ‘Create New Flash Offliner Package’ and then point it to the downloaded file. Then you will be asked to name your new game and for a couple of more optional details. At the end it should create game_name.fop file for you. 4. Again right click on the FlashOffliner icon and this time select the ‘Install FlashOffliner Option’. Point the app to the newly created game_name.fop file to “install” the game. 5. This will install the game and add it to your FlashOffliner games. See screenshot below. That’s about it, now you can simply click on the game of your choice and play it offline right on your desktop. By default the game window size is set to 800×600 but you can easily resize it to 400×300, 640×480, 1024×768 or Full Screen mode. Now that you know how to take flash games offline check out our short post on best online flash games. Did you try downloading flash games to your computer before? Do you have anything to add to the above guide? Share your tips and thoughts in comments. Tags: downloads, flash, fun, online games View all tags (By) Aibek, the guy behind MakeUseOf.com SUBSCRIBE: Daily updates on new Cool Websites by email Plus get free cheat sheets to your favorite programs. Related Posts The Best Online Flash Games MUO Games : Now Boarding - An Addictive Adobe Air Game 5 Rhythmic Online Flash Music Games to Groove Up Your Day MUO Games - Put Yourself In The Game With Pictogame MUO Games - The Best Websites to Play Flash Games Most Popular 40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark 1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously. 18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet 5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS 13 Bargain Websites That are Cheaper than eBayMore » 12 Comments 2008-12-17 01:59:17 Add Comment Phao Loo that’s pretty cute about File2HD.com. I should check whether It can download file from Youtube.com and other site. If yes, that will be a great tool for downloading and Keepvid.com should retire soon. Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 14:00:53 Qix http://www.zamzar.com can download and convert anything on youtube (and some other sites too). Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 09:16:22 Captain Obvious This article is superfluous. I’ve downloaded Flash games by simply right-clicking the object and saving to HDD. (I recognize that this won’t work in some cases) Secondly, all you have to do to play the games is open them with your web browser. Right Click -> Open With -> Firefox/Opera/Chrome/whatever Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 10:11:51 blackbook Thats a cool thing to do when you want to play offline but man… some of these dudes worked hard time to build a game for you to play. At least buy them a coffee on their site. (not their distributor site) 1$ isn’t a lot considering you downloaded a game that you will play more then 1hr. Thus said, support them small programers. Btw their an add-on for firefox that lets you save all swf. cheers. Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 10:36:04 FlashDeveloper Another thieving bastard couraging people to hustle flash (game) developers… Those games don’t make them selves you know, more you hustle us, less likely we have opportunity (living ain’t free, even for us, you know) to make games and that mean you ain’t getting new games to play. I hope some day your boss just decides to keep your pay check and tell “sorry, you haven’t worked enough lately, you don’t need money.”. Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 11:20:16 sm4k So stick to publishing on Kongregate, who’s system is resistant to this kind of thing, and is set up to support you, especially with the new ‘tip’ system. You can sit on your front porch and shake your fist all day long, but until you put up a fence I’m still going to play in your yard. Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 21:19:58 Agent Smith Kongregate is not resistant to that type of stuff, i’ve seen many friends download games off of it. However, most common apps to download games do not work on Kongregate. (Comments wont nest below this level) Reply here 2008-12-17 11:16:02 Will Mueller You can also get an extension like DownThemAll (Firefox) and navigate to a page with a built in Flash Game, while using the DownThemAll extension to download the specific extension. Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 14:14:04 raghu the flashoffliner is a real waste.. i used flashget to download the swf and then simply drag dropped the swf in firefox and enjoyed my game Reply to this comment 2008-12-17 17:00:28 David why download anything?? In most cases if you go to the source of the web page (for firefox under the view tab and for internet explorer under page) and search for “.swf” then you’ll find the link. Read the link to see if it’s what you want. eg http://google.com/ads.swf is probably not what you’re looking for. Then open the url in your browser and save it. For people who don’t download random things just in case Reply to this comment Reply NAME (required) E-MAIL (required - never shown publicly) URI c d e f g Subscribe to comments via email YOUR COMMENT You may use

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