A vector graphics animation software program developed by Macromedia (based on an earlier program by the Macromedia purchased FutureWave) and later added to Adobe's series of professional graphic applications under their merger. Initially called Shockwave Flash, it was designed to create smooth line-art animations and interactivity for web-based projects (basically, Illustrator, but with the 4th dimension added). It introduced its own coding language, Actionscript, and had its own standalone player software as well.
The "Shockwave" brand was something of an Artifact Title even from the beginning. Macromedia had an existing product called "Director" that was more mature and did some of the same things, and they had developed a browser plugin called "Shockwave" to let people view Director movies directly in their browser. After Macromedia bought FutureWave, they positioned Flash as something of a "Director Lite", most likely to protect Director sales. Flash proved popular, however, and eventually they dropped the Shockwave branding.
Since its introduction, Flash gained more and more features. Due to the shortcuts that it offered (that weren't available in traditional animation), combined with steady improvement in computer performance and decreasing budgets and deadlines from cable networks, it started to branch from animations made for the Web into television and even movie animation (this article mainly covers these titles). Many early TV efforts in animating in Flash have not aged very well and were considered poorly animated even for the time, leading many to take a dim view of the software's usage in animation early on. However, standouts existed even back then, and as the technology has progressed and refined, so has the smoothness, dynamism, and fluidity of most Flash-animated series. Also, before the rise of HTML 5's built-in video capabilities and the browser plugin's discontinuation, Flash was a key component in the rise of Web-based TV, owing to its installed base and features that make playback easy to implement.
Flash was not without its competitors, or critics:
- From the start Flash was considered a CPU and memory hog, but as computer speeds increased and memory got cheaper, it became less of a problem. Still, it was not unknown for browsers to freeze for minutes while processing a poorly written Flash game. The problem persisted on mobile devices, which eventually overtook desktops as the biggest source of Internet traffic in The New '10s.
- Flash's browser plugin was a popular target for malware, being no better than other common plugins. In fact, the plugin was such a huge problem in terms of security that it was deprecated in the mid-2010s, and eventually discontinued entirely (see below).
- Flash started on Windows on x86 processors, and support of non-Windows platforms that weren't Macs was poor to non-existent.
- It took Adobe years to port it to x86's successor, the (fortunately 100% backward-compatible) x86-64 architecture, delaying the adoption of 64-bit browsers.
- Plugins for Linux and OS X habitually lagged behind. Adobe was happy to start phasing out old GNU/Linux plugins (though the GNU Project had started developing FLOSS replacements, Gnash and LightSpark, quite some time before this) and offload developing its replacement on Google (as part of the Chrome/Chromium browser, though even this wasn't perfect as Chrome only really supported x86 processors (it can be made to run on ARM, but other RISC processors are right out).
- Despite being the major target for other Adobe software, Apple had a turbulent relationship with Flash due to its performance and security issues; the iPhone and iPad could not play Flash Player videos without a third-party app, and unless they were ported to the App Store, Flash games were nowhere to be found.
- In November 2011, Adobe promised to drop mobile Flash in favor of HTML 5. Mobile Flash support was only ever available on a few early Android phones.
- From the start, Flash competed with Java in browsers. Flash won thanks to its browser plugin actually being less resource-hungry and having tools more convenient for novice developers. Microsoft developing an incompatible Java implementationnote also helped.
- Toon Boom has been competing against Flash in the entertainment industry for years now, and has actually been used in big-scale feature films. Both programs had developed to the point where it is nearly impossible to determine which show was made with which program just by watching them.
- In the 90s, Cambridge Animation Systems produced an animation package called Animo which was rather widely adopted by animation studios in the UK. Most UK cartoons from said time period, including those by King Rollo Films, were done using this software. Animo was eventually purchased by Toon Boom.
- Silverlight was a direct competitor to Flash on the Web, developed by Microsoft and based on the .NET Framework. Since it was still a browser plugin, Silverlight shared all the major problems of Flash (being an unstable resource hog and a security hole, with poor support outside Windows), and failed to catch on or mature like Flash did.
- HTML5 adds video capability to the HTML standard and some nifty features specifically added for browser games. Though all current browsers support it, it didn't work in really old browsers that were still common in the early 2010s, particularly old versions of Internet Explorer. And again, Flash had better development tools until Adobe Edge appeared (see below).
On a related note, Flash's player was used by web designers for tasks it wasn't originally intended to perform well, such as banner ads, bitmapped video, games, complex interactive applications and, as of Flash 11, full on 3D rendered games. In extreme cases, web developers have had created entire webpages that are nothing but one huge Flash application. Its adoption for those uses can be traced to the "browser wars" of the late 1990s, which kept equivalent functionality from being standardized in HTML while Netscape and Microsoft duked it out. Now that the browser landscape has improved and most browsers at least try to follow the relevant standards, complex forms and applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML5's improved, standardized document object model have become the standard; this also makes them attractive for use on smartphones, due to Apple banning Flash from its devices and the aforementioned cancellation of Mobile Flash for Android.
In November 2011, Adobe announced it will no longer develop Flash software for iOS games past the most current version. In September 2012, Adobe released a software application called Adobe Edge, which is basically Adobe Flash for HTML5, with the aim of making this technology more accessible to designers, artists and people without a technical background. It is predicted to finally spell the end of Adobe Flash, but Adobe hasn't stopped development of Flash and Air; new features are still being added.
In February 2016, the program was renamed to Adobe Animate to highlight its change of direction from a web-based general purpose multimedia engine to a specialized animation tool targeting animators and animation studios.
August 2017 saw Adobe announce Flash Player's end-of-life by 2020, as outlined on their blog here. Most of the Internet already saw this coming for at least a year or two beforehand, with YouTube, Mozilla Firefox, and Newgrounds (amongst many others) having long dropped Flash support. In December 2020, it was dropped entirely, with browsers blocking websites that supported it in 2021. Luckily though, Adobe Animate continues to be developed and it will still be one of the leading 2D animation programs in the world for the near future.
The ActionScript programming language that allowed advanced capabilities of the plugin, by then up to version 3.0, was similarly open-sourced by Adobe. permitting browser developers of that time to better integrate advanced programming concepts into Javascript thus pushing it forward in capabilities. Video, hardware acceleration and some advanced css features are attributable to this change.
For those concerned that many older Flash games and animations will become unplayable, attempts to create a reverse-engineered Flash plugin that has modern sandboxing and security features built in had been under way for several years nownote ; have a look at Lightspark and Ruffle if you're interested. A massive archival and emulation effort can be found at Flashpoint, which provides a straightforward way to download and play Flash animations and games that are no longer available online.
Not to be confused with the brick-walled superhero of the same name. Or the other comic strip character whose first name is Flash.
See also Web Animation, Thick-Line Animation, and Flash's arguable spiritual successors Blender (for animation) and Unity (for games).
Works that were created with or used Flash:
- 6teen
- The 7D - only for the pilot, switched to traditional animation for the rest of the series.
- The Adventures Of Jesus And His Brothers
- The Adventures of Kid Danger
- Adventure Time has very briefly used this in only two episodes, which were merely for tweening to make things move faster and better, first in Belly Of The Beast, when the lava comes into the monster's belly and everything is shaking. The lava and the bears trembling and screaming were animated in Flash too. The other episode to use Flash for one scene was Power Animal, which was used for Jake's dancing.
- Almost Naked Animals
- The Amazing World of Gumball: The two-dimensional characters are animated in Flash, the 3D characters are Autodesk Maya, the backgrounds and a few characters are live-action, and everything is put together with Adobe After Effects. After Season 2, the crew wanted to switch to Toon Boom, but in order to do this they would have to export every asset to the new program, which they preferred not to do.
- Angel's Friends
- Angry Birds Toons, but only for four episodes from the first seasonnote . The earlier episodes used a mix of CGI and hand-drawn animation, and the rest of the series is done in Toon Boom.
- Animaniacs (2020)
- Anisava
- Apple & Onion
- Archer
- Arlo the Alligator Boy
- Atomic Betty
- Ba Da Bean
- Baby Shark's Big Show!
- B. Happy: One of the first Web Premiere Toons created specifically for Cartoon Network's website in The '90s.
- Being Ian
- Best Ed
- Big City Greens - The show is traditionally animated, but used Flash for all the shorts except Country Kids in the City and the first three Theme Song Takeover installments.
- The non-Steve/Joe characters in Blue's Clues (becoming probably the first show to use this), until switching to puppets in 2004.
- In the very early episodes, they were paper.
- Bobinogs (Although the first couple of seasons complex animations were done on paper, then scanned and traced into Flash.)
- Bob's Burgers (for the 1st season; switched to Toon Boom after that)
- Breadwinners
- Brickleberry (same as Bob's Burgers above for the 1st season)
- Bubble Guppies - The show is CGI but uses Flash-animated facial features, and the song and story segments are animated in Flash
- Bunnicula (The cartoon adaptation)
- Bunsen Is a Beast
- The Buzz on Maggie
- Camp Lakebottom
- Captain Distraction
- Captain Flamingo
- The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
- Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
- Carl²
- Centaurworld
- Chaotic (season 1 only; M'arillian Invasion and on used traditional animation)
- El Chavo Animado except for the Pilot episode. Used only for the characters; the backgrounds are CGI instead.
- Chilly Beach
- China, IL
- City Island (2022)
- Clang Invasion
- Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island
- Corn & Peg
- The Crumpets
- The Cuphead Show!
- Dan Vs. (Korean-outsourced)
- Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest, the reconstruction of the lost episodes of The Invasion, the web serial Scream of the Shalka, the 2016 reconstruction of The Power of The Daleks and a Flash game.
- The Dog & Pony Show
- Drawn Together: The Movie
- Eagle Talon
- Eena Meena Deeka
- Esurance's insurance commercials pre-2010, starring Erin Esurance.
- Exchange Student Zero
- Family Guy's talkshow-style special on Fox, promoting Ricky Blitt's ill-fated live-action sitcom, The Winner. It is the only instance of Family Guy done in Flash, in order to save time.
- The animated segments of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
- Fish Hooks
- Fizzy's Lunch Lab
- Fluffy Gardens
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Freaknik: The Musical
- Fred's Head
- Fudêncio e Seus Amigos
- Fugget About It
- The vast majority of series featured on Funpak were animated with Flash; the sole exceptions were The Manly Bee and The Wild Wild Circus Company.
- Garbage Island
- Gasp!
- The Goddamn George Liquor Program: A cartoon series by John Kricfalusi, notable for being the very first cartoon series to be made entirely using flash.
- Get Ace
- Get Blake!
- Gotham Girls
- Gravity Falls - the pilot was animated in Flash before switching to Toon Boom for the series itself.
- Grojband
- Growing Up Creepie
- Guest From The Future 2
- H₂O: Mermaid Adventures
- Happy Tree Friends, although mainly web-based, has been broadcast on various channels. The earlier shorts were animated in Flash, though they switched to Toon Boom eventually.
- Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
- Heaven 2001
- Hidden Celebrity Webcam
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
- Hobby Kids Adventures
- Hotel Transylvania: The Series
- Huntik: Secrets & Seekers - The first season was all done in traditional animation. The second season, however, alternated between traditional and flash, with over half of the episodes being in flash.
- Hydee and the Hytops: The Movie
- It's Pony
- Jacob Two-Two
- Jake and the Never Land Pirates
- Jellystone!
- John Callahan's Quads! - The very first animated show originally made for TV to use the software.
- Jorel's Brother: Pilot episode only; the series proper is animated on Toon Boom. An animation of Jorel's brother singing from the pilot was also reutilized in promos and a Season 1 episode.
- Henry and June on KaBlam!!, one of the earliest shows to use this.
- Kappa Mikey
- Kevin Spencer
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
- Kid Cosmic
- Kitty Is Not a Cat
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku- only season 1 was animated in Flash as the later seasons were animated by Toonboom.
- Lalaloopsy
- LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures
- Liberty's Kids - used for the Liberty News Network segments.
- Lil' Bush
- The Lion Guard
- Little Einsteins
- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- Lobo (Webseries): The first adult oriented DC cartoon.
- Looney Tunes Cartoons
- The Magic School Bus Rides Again
- Making Fiends
- Martha Speaks
- Max and Ruby
- Meet the Millers
- Metalocalypse. Notable in that it has impressive animation in comparison to its predecessor, especially in its third season.
- Midge And Buck
- Mighty Magiswords
- Monster Beach
- Monster Loving Maniacs
- Mother Up
- Motor City
- The Mr. Men Show
- ¡Mucha Lucha!. One of the first to bring it to the mainstream, and also outsourced to Korea.
- My Big, Big Friend
- My Friend Rabbit
- My Life Me
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Navy Bear
- Neighbors from Hell
- Nella the Princess Knight
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
- Ninja Hattori (2012 revival)
- Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! - A rare Anime example, the Nyaruani shorts were made with Flash (except for the ending credits), while the subsequent TV series uses traditional animation. They also gleefully lampshade the Limited Animation on the title cards.
- Numb Chucks
- Odd Job Jack
- Om Nom Stories (confirmed in a behind-the-scenes video)
- Re-Animated (live action/animated TV movie)
- Out of Jimmy's Head, the follow-up TV series. While the animation for the film was done at Renegade Animation, the animation for the series was done in-house at Cartoon Network.
- Peg + Cat
- Petit iDOLM@STER
- Pinky Dinky Doo
- Phineas and Ferb: The show is usually traditionally animated with digital ink and paint instead, but there are rare moments where the animation is instead animated with Flash, such as in "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne." Take Two with Phineas and Ferb, a talk show hosted by the title characters where they interview various real-life celebrities, also uses this program.
- Pip Ahoy!
- Pixel Pinkie
- Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker
- Poker Night 2000
- Polly Pocket
- Pound Puppies (2010)
- Princess Natasha
- The Problem Solverz
- Pucca
- Puss in Boots (1999)
- Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty
- Razzberry Jazzberry Jam
- Rhyme Time Town
- Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
- Rocket Monkeys
- Rock N Roll Dad
- Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss
- Rosie's Rules
- Ryan's Mystery Playdate - Used for Gus and Combo
- The Secret of Kells - Only about 5-10% of the film was made in Flash, mostly dream sequences or the story of Colmicille. The 18-second animation of the woodland spirit Aisling for the Academy Awards nomination was made in Flash.
- The Secret Show
- Shimmer and Shine - Season 1 only, Season 2 onward switched to CGI
- Shorties Watching Shorties
- Shorty McShorts' Shorts
- Shugo Chara! - (Pucchi Puchi only)
- Shuriken School
- Sidekick
- Sita Sings the Blues
- Skunk Fu!
- Slacker Cats
- Sons of Butcher
- Space☆Dandy - Used during the worm fight in episode 1 and for episode 16. Not that many people would notice of course, as it was done in a similar fashion as Superjail below.
- Spaceballs: The Animated Series
- Speed Racer: The Next Generation
- Superjail! - Praised by animation fans as using an extremely early version of the program (Flash MX) to get very fine lines to make the whole thing look like it's animated on paper, with literally a new drawing every frame! However, season 2 onwards (switching from producers Augenblick Studios to Titmouse, Inc.) use the more recent versions of Flash. The introduction sequences and some special effects are put together in After Effects.
- Super News
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go - pilot only, switched to traditional animation for the series
- Spliced
- Starship Regulars
- Stōked
- Sunny Day
- Sunday Pants
- Superhero Roommate
- Tamagotchi in a few segments with Mametchi
- Tangled: The Series
- Teen Titans Go!
- Three Delivery
- ThunderCats Roar
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
- Time Warp Trio
- Tiny Toons Looniversity
- The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)
- Tom and Jerry in New York
- Toopy and Binoo
- The Total Drama series
- Transformers: Rescue Bots (season 2; season 1 was animated in Toon Boom)
- The Trash Pack
- Turbo F.A.S.T.
- Uchi no 3 Shimai - one of the very few anime series to be animated entirely in Flash.
- Ugly Americans
- Unsupervised
- The Venture Bros. - The pilot was done in Flash. The rest of the show is not.
- Villa Dulce
- Wakfu - Notable for certain episodes that are ludicrously well-animated, even as the quality of Flash animation continues to improve.
- Waltz with Bashir is an interesting example; it was animated by combining Flash cutouts with traditional animation.
- Wander over Yonder
- Weekend Pussy Hunt: Another early Flash cartoon made by John Kricfalusi.
- Where Ma' Dogs At
- Wilbur - The main program features puppets, but Flash is used for the book-reading segments.
- Wild Animal Baby Explorers - the main program is high-definition "3-D" CGI (with nature footage presented as live-action), but the characters' Imagine Spots are presented in Flash.
- Wild Grinders
- Wild Kratts
- Willa's Wild Life
- Wonder Pets!
- WordGirl
- World of Quest
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
- The X's
- Yakkity Yak
- Yin Yang Yo!
- Yo Gabba Gabba! - The show is live-action, but uses flash animation for the animated sequences and thoughts
- Zombie College
Shows that switched to Flash
- 64 Zoo Lane - Season 3 switched to this
- Arthur - Season 16 switched to this after the rights to the production of the show switched from Cookie Jar to 9 Story Entertainment. Dumped Flash in favor of ToonBoom Harmony when the license changed hands again to Oasis Animation in Season 20.
- The "Cliff Hanger" segments in Between the Lions in Season 7.
- Caillou - Season 4 switched after being traditionally animated for the first 3 seasons. Dumped Flash in favor of ToonBoom Harmony as of Season 5.
- Corneil & Bernie - Season 2 switched to this.
- Curious George - The Royal Monkey DTV movie and Season 12 of the TV series switched to this.
- Cyberchase - Season 6 switched to this.
- Drawn Together - For its Direct to Video Grand Finale movie, due to the fact that Comedy Central refused to fund it and this was the only option the creators had.
- The Fairly OddParents! - Mid-season 10, starting with "Space Ca-Dad". These episodes were produced on a very small budget and short notice.
- Garfield and Friends - The opening was reanimated in Flash when the show was remastered by the aforementioned 9 Story.
- Gawayn - Season 2 switched to this.
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - The first nine episodes were traditionally animated, until they promptly moved to Flash to have more fluidity and to save production time.
- Home Movies - Season one was done in Squigglevision (a style where the outlines on the characters were constantly moving) but it limited movement on the characters. Thus when the show moved to [adult swim], they switched to this to avoid this problem.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes - Season 1 used Toon Boom (albeit on a rather modest budget), but due to changes in production, Season 2 switched to Flash animation.
- Johnny Bravo used it for its Made-for-TV Movie, Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood.
- Johnny Test - The show switched to Adobe Flash in season 2 when Warner Bros. Animation stopped co-producing the series with Cookie Jar, leading to severe budget cuts. When the series was revived for a seventh season in 2021, however, it switched its animation to Harmony
- The Loud House - The series initally used Toon Boom, albiet on a modest budget, which led some people to believe that the series has always been animated with Flash. However, the series switched over to actually using Adobe Flash beginning with season 4, even though its spin-off The Casagrandes continued to use the Toon Boom software for its animation.
- Mixels - Started using it after the Season 2 episode "A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig". Episodes prior were animated in Toon Boom.
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998) used it for the final episode, The Powerpuff Girls Rule!, which was also a 10th anniversary special. Mostly a decision by the series creator since he had switched to Flash by that point for his animations.
- Rainbow Rangers - Seasons 1 and 2 were in CGI. Season 3 switched to 2D Flash animation.
- The Simpsons - the HD opening first used in Season 20 uses this for some of the animation, most notably the supermarket scene with Marge and Maggie.
- Staines Down Drains - The second series switched to this to be animated entirely at Flux Animation.
- Stickin' Around - only for Season 2. Traditionally animated for the first and final seasons.
- Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
- Wayside - like Johnny Test, the later episodes were made in Flash.
- Winx Club - Started at Season 5 (albeit some scenes in the first episode of Season 4 were in Flash too) and been using it since in conjunction with its CGI animated segments (A rather odd contrast really).
- Zig & Sharko - starting on Season 3.
- Awkward Zombie
- Bob and George occasionally incorporated Flash segments.
- Burning Stickman Presents...Something! was a Sprite Comic made in Flash, with animated comics occasionally, typically on 100 comic milestones.
- Cat Nine is all drawn in Flash.
- Combo Rangers, with the first three episodes of the Revolution season being fully animated
- Most of the comics hosted on Dumm Comics
- Homestuck, which releases Flash animations every 50 comics or so. (Originally the writer planned for every panel to be a Flash comic, but it was deemed to be too time consuming.)
- Keychain of Creation
- Knite
- Morph E is presented as a Visual Novel with interactive elements and is programmed in Flash. The artwork is drawn in Sai and edited in Photoshop.
- Newheimburg has made the transition from hand-drawn to fully Flash-based drawing recently.
- PepsiaPhobia
- Prequel has several flash animations and minigames.
- Sacred Pie: Some pages are flash animation; some chapters are entirely flash animation. Usually they are action-packed, with little to no dialogs. However, flash pages only amount to several percent of the comic.
- VG Cats used Flash to smooth its line art earlier in its run.
- Waterworks is created entirely in Flash and has several animated segments, which have been converted to WebM videos.
- Arj and Poopy, by former Disney Australia animator Bernard Derriman
- Animator vs. Animation
- Bitey of Brackenwood, by former Disney effects animator Adam Phillips.
- Battle for Dream Island
- Blamimation
- Bonus Stage
- Brain POP - The 1997 pilot shorts were made with Macromedia Director.
- Broken Saints
- The Critic (webisodes from 2000)
- Cyanide and Happiness
- Eddsworld note
- Eskimo Bob
- Evil Josh And Billy
- Fern Game Series
- Flashdeck Animations
- GEOWeasel
- Gotham Girls
- Happy Harry, by Harry Partridge.
- Homestar Runner (actively backs Ruffle and is adding Ruffle to their site as to preserve the Flash games and animations).
- Inanimate Insanity
- Leo and Satan
- The Legend Of Luo Xiao Hei
- Looney Tunes web series exclusively on the Warner Bros. website during the Nineties. They're now buried in its archives.
- Object Overload
- Object Terror
- The Masked Girl
- Mind My Gap
- Many shows by the studio Mondo Media
- Mystery Skulls Animated
- Pokémon Learning League
- Pretty Blood
- Robotbox and Cactus
- Roommates
- Simon's Cat
- Sonic's Quest for Power
- Space Tree
- Spicy Boy
- StrifeToons
- There she is!!
- Thomas Timberwolf, Chuck Jones' last animated project ever.
- Weebl & Bob and the other series on their site
- 400 Years
- 50K Racewalker
- Abobo's Big Adventure
- Achievement Unlocked
- Acorn Story
- Adventure Kingdom
- The Adventure Pals
- Adventure Ponies!
- The Adventures of Zomboy
- Alice In Spaceland Series
- Afro Ninja Escape
- Alice Is Dead
- Amea
- American Racing
- Amorphous+
- Anaksha: Female Assassin
- And Everything Started to Fall
- Angelico
- Anti-Idle: The Game
- Arcane: The Armor Collector
- Arcane Weapon
- Arcuz
- Arkandian Legends
- Armed With Wings
- Arzea
- Aqua Rhapsody
- Attack of the Heavenly Bats
- Babies Dream of Dead Worlds
- Battle Beavers
- The Binding of Isaac
- bit Dungeon
- Bloons (all of the main series and some spin-offs)
- Bloons Tower Defense (the first five games)
- Bloons Super Monkey
- The Breach
- Boss Rush Apocalypse
- BowMaster
- Brawlin' Sailor
- Breakbar RPG
- The Bright in the Screen
- Bubble Tanks
- Burger Restaurant
- Burrito Bison
- Cactus McCoy
- Cafe Rouge
- Caravaneer
- Carrie the Caregiver
- The Caverns of Hammerfest
- Clarence's Big Chance
- The Classroom Trilogy
- Clear Vision
- Clockwords
- Closure
- Coinbox Hero
- Colour My Series
- Coma
- Combat Heaven
- Combat Instinct
- Commando 2
- The Company of Myself
- Continuity
- Core
- Covetous
- Crimson Room
- Cyber Chaser
- Cyborg (2007)
- Cyclomaniacs
- Dad Series
- Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
- Darfur Is Dying
- DarkOrbit
- Dawn of the Dragons
- Dead End St
- Dead Frontier (only the initial version, and the Outbreak spin-offs)
- Decision
- Deep Sleep Trilogy
- Defend Your Castle
- Desert Moon
- Desktop Tower Defense
- Diamond Hollow II
- Dino Run
- Dino Strike
- Discovery (2011)
- Diseviled
- Doeo
- Don't Escape
- Doom Forge
- Drake and the Wizards
- Duck Life
- Dungeon Blitz
- An Egyptian Tale
- Electric Man
- Elemental
- Elephant Quest
- Emo Game
- The End (2012)
- endeavor
- Enigmata
- Enough Plumbers
- The Epic Battle Fantasy series:
- Epic Boss Fighter
- Epic Coaster
- Escape from Puppy Death Factory
- Every Day the Same Dream
- Everybody Edits Flash
- Everybody Edits Project M
- Exit Path
- Fisher-Diver
- Flaming Zombooka
- Flight
- flOw
- Flower Knight Girl (At least originally; has since been ported over to HTML5 since Adobe Flash's discontinuation)
- Forbidden Arms
- Formula Racer
- Fractured
- Frantic
- Frantic Frigates
- Free Icecream
- Fresh Minty Adventure
- Frizzle Fraz
- Frog Fractions
- Garden Gnome Carnage
- Genesis 2009
- Get Off My Lawn (2009)
- Ginormo Sword
- Glean
- Glissaria
- Godzilla Daikaiju Battle Royale
- Goime 500
- Grey Matter
- Grinning Cobossus
- Griswold the Goblin
- Grow
- Gun Bot
- Gyossait
- Hangaroo
- The Haunted Ruins
- Haunt the House
- Heir
- Help The Hero
- Henry Stickmin Series
- Hobo
- Hong Kong Ninja
- I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.
- Icycle
- Idle Chop
- Idle Mine
- Idle Planet
- Idle Recruit
- The Impossible Quiz
- Incredibox
- IndestructoTank
- Infectonator!
- The Infinite Ocean
- Into Space
- Intrusion 2
- The I of It
- Iridescent
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Jinx
- Karoshi
- Katawa Crash
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
- Kingdom Rush
- King's Ascent
- The Kings League
- Kit and the Octopod
- K.O.L.M.
- A Koopa's Revenge
- KoopaTV
- Lab of the Dead
- The Last Stand
- Lazerman
- Learn To Fly
- Level Up
- Legend of the Golden Robot
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (only the demo was ported to Flash)
- Legends Of Kong
- Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars
- Linear RPG
- Linx
- Looming
- Lucky Tower
- Man of Steel
- Mastermind: World Conqueror
- Meat Boy
- Mega Mash
- Metaspace
- Miami Shark
- Mibibli's Quest
- Mike Shadow: I Paid for It!
- Minty Fresh Adventure!
- Mission in Snowdriftland
- Monster Arena
- Motherload
- Moto Rush
- Mr. Bree (Returning Home only)
- My "Dear" Boss
- My Friend Pedro (only the original version)
- Myosotis
- My Pet Protector
- N
- NANACA†CRASH!!
- Nevermore
- Neverending Light
- Newgrounds Rumble
- Nickelodeon Super Brawl series (original subseries, 2 and 3 only)
- Nightmares on Wax
- Nitrome Must Die
- Notebook Wars
- No Time to Explain
- Oiligarchy
- One Button Bob
- One Chance
- Pandemic
- Papa Louie Arcade
- Parameters
- Parasite Strike
- Pause Ahead
- The Peacekeeper
- Peasant's Quest
- Perdition
- Persist
- Phoenotopia
- Pico's School and other fan games
- Pirate Hunter
- Pixelo
- Pixelvader
- Platform Racing
- Playing with Fire
- Plazma Burst
- Pokémon Black and Blue
- Power Pamplona
- Pretentious Game
- Primary
- PRIOR
- Quick Quests
- QWOP
- Raiders Took My Dog
- Railroad Rampage
- Raze 2
- Reachin' Pichin
- Red Rogue
- Reisen
- The Republia Times (eventually converted from Flash to HTML5)
- [REVIVE]
- Riddle School
- Road of the Dead
- Robot Arena
- Robot Wants
- Rokko Chan
- ROM Check Fail
- Rose & Camellia
- RotaZion
- RPG Shooter: Starwish
- Run
- Sailor Moon: Robot Frenzy!
- Scooby-Doo (Flash)
- Scooby-Doo! Big Air
- Seedling
- Sequester
- Shadowgate
- Shameless Clone
- Shift
- Sierra 7
- Sint Nicolaas
- Skinny
- Skrillex Quest
- Skyrates
- Sky Serpents
- Snailiad
- Soundodger
- Spewer
- The Splitting
- Stinkoman 20X6
- Stormwinds
- Streemerz
- Strike Force Heroes
- Swords & Souls
- Summit
- Super Chick Sisters
- Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe
- Super Mario 63
- Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- Super Smash Flash
- Super Treadmill
- Swords and Sandals
- Tails' Nightmare
- Tangerine Tycoon
- Tanki Online
- TCTRPG
- Terminal House
- There Is No Game
- The Room: The Game
- Thing-Thing
- This Is the Only Level
- This Is Why You're Fat (in 60 Seconds)
- Thy Dungeonman
- Time Fcuk
- Titan Lunch Retaliation
- Toss the Turtle
- Tower Bloxx
- Tower of Greed
- Tower of Heaven
- Toys Vs Nightmares
- Trauma
- Treadmillasaurus Rex
- Ultimate Flash Sonic
- Ultimate Robotnik Duels
- Uninvited: The Quest for the Red Diamond
- Unreal Tournament III (ported after release as a proof-of-concept)
- Uphill Rush
- Vector Stunt
- Verge
- Versus Umbra
- Viricide
- The Visit
- Viva Caligula
- Vulpin Adventure
- Vuvu Hero
- Warlords: Heroes
- Western Front 1914
- Whack Your...
- Whirled
- Windosill
- Wtf: The Worst Game Ever
- Xenosaga: A Missing Year
- You Find Yourself In A Room
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- You Only Live Once
- Zombidle