Most children love playing games and flash based games are very popular. There are lots of educational flash games available and they can be a useful tools in the classroom for reinforcing or revising topics. They can be used with the whole class or for individual pupils on computers.

The problem with the many of the games I find for use with pupils is that they never do quite what I want them to. The questions may not be all on the topic I want or the website they are based on may have too many other distractions that make if difficult for pupils to concentrate on what they should be doing.

A solution to these problems is to make your own games that are based on the questions you want to focus on and that can be run from a school network or a website that you have control over. Unfortunately developing games in flash requires a lot of skill and knowledge that most of us don’t have the time or skills to develop. That is where Contentgenerator.net comes in. Contentgenerator.net provides a series of programs that make it easy to create your own flash games to use with pupils. Many of the programs are commercial, but are priced reasonably, while others are free.

Each program will create one type of game, for example a matching game or a game of teacher invaders. The programs are easy to use and all you need to do is enter some details about the questions, choose from a few options and the games are created for you ready to run. Rather than try to describe in more detail I have created a quick video showing how to make a ‘match up’ game.

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When this is saved it produces a flash game that can be played straight from the computer or added to a website (a webpage is created for you).

You can open this game in a new window

Visit Contentgenerator.net to find out more. There is good support for the programs including an active user forum.

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