intro animation for swf games

[skepsys82]

hy.
i'm working on this site. and it has a lot of flash games posted on it. i'm trying to find a way to make an animated intro to all those games(that would play before the game starts), something like they do in miniclip games. i mean an intro with the logo of the site first, so that ppl that download a game from this site can get to see the mini-animated-presentation of the site that hosts the games.
im going to search the internet but if anybody has an idea of how to do that or how to start doing that, or how to start thinking about doing that, i appreciate it.

thanx in advance.
andrei.

[flyingmonkey456]

i believe the people who upload their games to miniclip put that in, themselves. the same way newgrounds, armor games, crazy monkey, etc have their preloaders. the authors download them and put them on before they upload it. don't quote me on that, but i'm pretty sure :)

[therobot]

i mean an intro with the logo of the site first, so that ppl that download a game from this site can get to see the mini-animated-presentation of the site that hosts the games.

:D

You talk about this like it's a nice thing that people have to sit through advertising.


I'm not sure how other sites do it, but you may want to look into that. It's possible to make a container swf that will load your intro swf first, then load whatever game swf the user chose, but if you're concerned about other sites taking your games and stripping away your intro movie, it would be best to 'bake-in' the intro movie into the game swf (i.e. give it to the game maker as a movieclip or something and make them compile it into their swf)

[TOdorus]

:D

You talk about this like it's a nice thing that people have to sit through advertising.


I'm not sure how other sites do it, but you may want to look into that. It's possible to make a container swf that will load your intro swf first, then load whatever game swf the user chose, but if you're concerned about other sites taking your games and stripping away your intro movie, it would be best to 'bake-in' the intro movie into the game swf (i.e. give it to the game maker as a movieclip or something and make them compile it into their swf)

That's how Mochi does it. It also means you don't have to actually "bake it into" the swf. When people download the swf, they download the container swf which shows an ad and loads in the game swf. The disadvantage is that everybody will be using Your bandwith to display the game.